Beyond Tellerrand 2026

Unique generative posters for German design conference

For the 15th anniversary of Beyond Tellerrand — the German creative conference run by Marc Thiele — I was asked to create the visual identity for the event, including a series of posters for each speaker. A few years ago I had done the graphics for the 2019 event all in Houdini, but this time I wanted to create the work in TouchDesigner.

The core idea came from how I felt about this wonderful event and how it's always a lens to see the world differently and how each speaker, each attendee brings their own perspective through talks and conversations.

I wanted to give form to that plurality, starting out with creating a deterministic system to create simple doodle like sketched lines, symbolising the start of an idea. This was all done by connecting a series of POP points which I then use a Noise POP with a seed determined by the speaker name, which I then connect with a Connectivity POP, in two ways, one creating a surface volume and another as lines. I then used a series of Subdivide POPs to smooth out those shapes and applied some colour using a deterministic palette. The relationship between the sketched line and the solid shape was to me a representation of that thing you start off with in your head and the final manifested form.

With the type I used a few different type faces from David Jonathan Ross and again used the seed phrase to not only choose the type used on each letter form but also the layout. In the background was every single speaker who had spoke at the event in those fifteen years, each time being shuffled for each iteration. Finally at the bottom right corner is a serial number which I can decode at a later date if I wanted to recreate the poster exactly.