Tiago Martins

Tiago Martins is a cross-media designer who works at the convergence of design and computer science. The focus of his work lies in the development of custom tools to computationally evolve novel designs.

After completing his Master in Design and Multimedia in the University of Coimbra, he enrolled in a PhD in Information Science and Technology at the same institution. He is researching and working on his thesis project Design through Automatic Evolution in the Computational and Visualization Lab. (CMS/CISUC). Recently, he started to work as invited assistant lecturer at the University of Coimbra, teaching in the field of computational graphic design in the Master of Design and Multimedia.

Email: tiagofm@dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-2638-237X
Google Scholar: link

Related projects

25/06/2018

Insta.ants at CADGME 2018

08/06/2018

Data-driven logotype design

01/04/2018

Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils

05/08/2017

Insta.ants at Romaria Cultural 2017

07/07/2017

Insta.ants at xCoAx 2017

28/06/2017

X-Faces

27/06/2017

Mobiliário Sonoro

27/05/2017

TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool

02/03/2017

Insta.ants

29/04/2014

Best Paper Award – EvoMUSART 2014

25/04/2014

Photogrowth: Ant Painting

04/03/2013

The Garden of Virtual Delights

Articles

  • T. Martins, J. M. Cunha, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Dynamic Visual Identities: from a survey of the state-of-the-art to a model of features and mechanisms,” Visible Language, vol. 53, iss. 2, p. 4–35, 2019.
    • Bibtex
      • @article{martins2019a,
      Author = {Tiago Martins and Jo{\~{a}}o Miguel Cunha and Jo{\~{a}}o Bicker and Penousal Machado},
      Journal = {Visible Language},
      Number = {2},
      Pages = {4–35},
      Publisher = {School of Design, University of Cincinnati},
      Title = {Dynamic Visual Identities: from a survey of the state-of-the-art to a model of features and mechanisms},
      Volume = {53},
      Year = {2019}}

  • P. Machado, T. Martins, H. Amaro, and P. H. Abreu, “Beyond Interactive Evolution: Expressing Intentions Through Fitness Functions,” Leonardo, vol. 49, iss. 3, p. 251 – 256, 2016.
    • Bibtex
      • @article{mmaa16,
      Author = {Machado, Penousal and Martins, Tiago and Amaro, Hugo and Abreu, Pedro H.},
      Journal = {Leonardo},
      Title = {Beyond Interactive Evolution: Expressing Intentions Through Fitness Functions},
      Year = {2016},
      volume = “49”,
      number = “3”,
      pages = “251 — 256”,
      doi = “http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_01103”}
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In Collections

  • T. Martins and P. Machado, “The garden of virtual delights,” in BRIDGES 2013 – Mathematical Art Galleries, Enschede, Netherlands: , 2013.
    • Bibtex
      • @incollection{mm13,
      author = {Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado},
      title = {The garden of virtual delights},
      booktitle = {BRIDGES 2013 — Mathematical Art Galleries},
      address = {Enschede, Netherlands},
      year = {2013},
      }

In Proceedings

  • J. Parente, T. Martins, and J. Bicker, “Data-driven Logotype Design,” in 22 International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2018), 2018.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{parente2018a,
      Author = {J\'{e}ssica Parente and Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Bicker},
      Booktitle = {22 International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2018)},
      Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Month = {July},
      Publisher = {IEEE},
      Title = {Data-driven Logotype Design},
      Year = {2018}}

  • S. Rebelo, T. Martins, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Typography as Image: Experiments on Typographic Portraits,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{rebelo2018a,
      Author = {S\'{e}rgio Rebelo and Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Bicker and Penousal Machado},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
      Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:56:26 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:57:56 +0000},
      Editor = {Associa\c{c}\~{a}o de TIpografia de Portugal (ATIPO)},
      Month = {11/2018},
      Organization = {Polytechnic Institute of Tomar},
      Publisher = {Instituto Polit\'{e}cnico de Tomar},
      Title = {Typography as Image: Experiments on Typographic Portraits},
      Year = {2018}}

  • T. Martins, S. Rebelo, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “Building Typefaces as Programs: A node-based approach for modular type design,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{martins2018b,
      Author = {Tiago Martins and S\'{e}rgio Rebelo and Jo\~{a}o Bicker and Penousal Machado},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
      Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:58:10 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:58:49 +0000},
      Month = {11/2018},
      Organization = {Polytechnic Institute of Tomar},
      Publisher = {Association for Computational Creativity (ACC)},
      Title = {Building Typefaces as Programs: A node-based approach for modular type design},
      Year = {2018}}

  • J. Caetano, P. Hardman, and T. Martins, “Interactive Animated Alphabet,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{caetano2018a,
      Author = {Joana Caetano and Paul Hardman and Tiago Martins},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
      Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Month = {11/2018},
      Publisher = {Instituto Polit\'{e}cnico de Tomar},
      Title = {Interactive Animated Alphabet},
      Year = {2018}}

  • T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils,” in Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Cham, 2018, p. 299–314.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{martins2018a,
      Address = {Cham},
      Author = {Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Correia and Ernesto Costa and Penousal Machado},
      Booktitle = {Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design},
      Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Editor = {Liapis, Antonios and Romero Cardalda, Juan Jes\'{u}s and Ek\'{a}rt, Anik\'{o}},
      Isbn = {978-3-319-77583-8},
      Pages = {299–314},
      Publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
      Title = {Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils},
      Year = {2018}}
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  • J. Parente, T. Martins, and J. Bicker, “Generative Type Design,” in Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET), 2018.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{parente2018b,
      Author = {J\'{e}ssica Parente and Tiago Martins and Jo\~{a}o Bicker},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth Typography Meeting (9ET)},
      Date-Added = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2018-11-22 17:23:40 +0000},
      Month = {11/2018},
      Publisher = {Instituto Polit\'{e}cnico de Tomar},
      Title = {Generative Type Design},
      Year = {2018}}

  • T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils,” in Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Cham, 2018, p. 299–314.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{martins2018a,
      Abstract = {Typefaces are an essential resource employed by graphic designers. The increasing demand for innovative type design work increases the need for good technological means to assist the designer in the creation of a typeface. We present an evolutionary computation approach for the generation of type stencils to draw coherent glyphs for different characters. The proposed system employs a Genetic Algorithm to evolve populations of type stencils. The evaluation of each candidate stencil uses a hill climbing algorithm to search the best configurations to draw the target glyphs. We study the interplay between legibility, coherence and expressiveness, and show how our framework can be used in practice.},
      Address = {Cham},
      Author = {Martins, Tiago and Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Costa, Ernesto and Machado, Penousal},
      Booktitle = {Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design},
      Date-Modified = {2018-04-04 07:44:52 +0000},
      Editor = {Liapis, Antonios and Romero Cardalda, Juan Jes\'{u}s and Ek\'{a}rt, Anik\'{o}},
      Isbn = {978-3-319-77583-8},
      Pages = {299–314},
      Publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
      Title = {Evotype: Towards the Evolution of Type Stencils},
      Year = {2018}}
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  • J. Cunha, T. Martins, P. Martins, J. Bicker, and P. Machado, “TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool,” in Proceedings of the Workshop “Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2016”, 2016.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{cunha2016a,
      Author = {J. Cunha and T. Martins and P. Martins and J. Bicker and P. Machado},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop “Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence 2016”},
      Date-Added = {2016-10-10 14:33:41 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2016-10-10 14:33:41 +0000},
      Title = {TypeAdviser: a type design aiding-tool},
      Year = {2016}}
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  • J. Correia, T. Martins, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “X-Faces: The eXploit Is Out There,” in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016), 2016, pp. 164-182.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{cmmm16,
      Author = {Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Martins, Tiago and Martins, Pedro and Machado, Penousal},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2016)},
      Date-Modified = {2016-10-06 14:47:33 +0000},
      Editor = {Pachet, Fran{\c c}ois and Cardoso, Amilcar and Corruble, Vincent and Ghedini, Fiammetta},
      Month = {07/2016},
      Pages = {164-182},
      Publisher = {Sony CSL Paris, France},
      Title = {X-Faces: The eXploit Is Out There},
      Year = {2016}}
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  • T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs,” in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016, New York, NY, USA, 2016, p. 261–268.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{martins2016a,
      Acmid = {2908907},
      Address = {New York, NY, USA},
      Author = {Martins, Tiago and Correia, Jo\~{a}o and Costa, Ernesto and Machado, Penousal},
      Booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016},
      Date-Added = {2017-03-27 17:48:36 +0000},
      Date-Modified = {2017-03-27 17:48:36 +0000},
      Doi = {10.1145/2908812.2908907},
      Isbn = {978-1-4503-4206-3},
      Keywords = {deep learning, evolutionary computation, evolutionary design, genetic algorithms, type design},
      Location = {Denver, Colorado, USA},
      Numpages = {8},
      Pages = {261–268},
      Publisher = {ACM},
      Series = {GECCO ’16},
      Title = {Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs},
      Url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2908812.2908907},
      Year = {2016},
      Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2908812.2908907},
      Bdsk-Url-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2908812.2908907}
      }
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  • T. Martins, J. Correia, E. Costa, and P. Machado, “Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design,” in Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design – 4th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings, 2015, p. 136–147.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{mccm15,
      author = {Tiago Martins and
      Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and
      Ernesto Costa and
      Penousal Machado},
      editor = {Colin Johnson and
      Adri{\'{a}}n Carballal and
      Jo{\~{a}}o Correia},
      title = {Evotype: Evolutionary Type Design},
      booktitle = {Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design
      – 4th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark,
      April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings},
      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
      volume = {9027},
      pages = {136–147},
      publisher = {Springer},
      year = {2015},
      url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16498-4_13},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-16498-4_13},
      timestamp = {Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:39:55 +0100},
      biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/evoW/MartinsCCM15},
      bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
      }
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  • P. Machado, T. Martins, H. Amaro, and P. H. Abreu, “An Interface for Fitness Function Design,” in Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design – Third International Conference, EvoMUSART 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014. Proceedings, 2014.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{mmaa14,
      author = {Penousal Machado and Tiago Martins and Hugo Amaro and Pedro H. Abreu},
      title = {An Interface for Fitness Function Design},
      year = {2014},
      editor = {Juan Romero and
      James McDermott and
      Jo{\~{a}}o Correia},
      booktitle = {Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art
      and Design – Third International Conference, EvoMUSART
      2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014. Proceedings},
      publisher = {Springer},
      series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
      volume = {8601}
      }
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  • T. Martins and P. Machado, “Drawing Sounds,” in xCoAx 2014: Computation Communication Aesthetics and X, Porto, Portugal, 2014, p. 430–437.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{mm14,
      Address = {Porto, Portugal},
      Author = {Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado},
      Booktitle = {xCoAx 2014: Computation Communication Aesthetics and X},
      Date-Modified = {2015-05-04 22:31:46 +0000},
      Editor = {Miguel Carvalhais and Mario Verdicchio},
      Pages = {430–437},
      Publisher = {University of Porto},
      Title = {Drawing Sounds},
      Type = {Conference Proceedings},
      Year = {2014}}
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  • T. Martins, P. Machado, and A. Rebelo, “The garden of virtual delights: virtual fauna for a botanical garden,” in Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH ’13, Anaheim, CA, USA, July 21-25, 2013, Poster Proceedings, 2013, p. 26.
    • Bibtex
      • @inproceedings{mmr13,
      author = {Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado and Artur Rebelo},
      title = {The garden of virtual delights: virtual fauna for a botanical garden},
      booktitle = {Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference, SIGGRAPH ’13, Anaheim, CA, USA, July
      21-25, 2013, Poster Proceedings},
      pages = {26},
      ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2503385.2503413},
      bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
      publisher = {ACM},
      year = {2013},
      isbn = {978-1-4503-2342-0}
      }
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