The book provides guidelines and practical creative exercises which equip creative-major students in early semesters as well as creative practitioners with fundamental knowledge on creation methods.

The book draws a direction between two and three dimensional material-based design and modern digital creation process. The first part of the book introduces various creative handcrafting exercises on proportion, geometry and modularity, among other fundamental design principles.

The creative exercises will sensitise students on aesthetical and structural issues, and thus serve as an essential building block for application of the design principles to computer-based creative processes, which are introduced in the second part of the book.

Tobias Gremmler is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media,City University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He has taught at universities in Germany, Switzerland and the United States since 1996, and began teaching in China since 2003. He started his career as a professional designer for digital media in 1991. Since then, he has developed design solutions for companies such as Apple, Adidas, BMW, Samsung and Sony. In his artistic work, he blends media art with traditional art forms like theatre, music and sculpture. His artwork has been shown at Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and theatres like Volksbühne Berlin and Cultural Centre Hong Kong.