Crafting tools and making them better is human nature. JetBrains has built its business on this tradition, by creating tools which developers love using daily and which automate the routine parts of their jobs. Almost 2 years ago, we shared a story of how we create artwork at JetBrains, along with a cool and geeky tool you could play with to create your own JetBrains-styled art. Today we want to reveal the progress we’ve made in advancing our generative approach to creating artwork, and give everyone a new version of the tool! We’ve kept at it since 2017 and our techniques have gotten be

Update: Read the update from 2018 about our approach to creating product artwork. Most of us who write code treat it as something special, more than just a bunch of characters stored in files. A lot of experience, thought and trial and error is put into it. For many, coding is creating and the code is their art. Some believe software development is rather art than science. And while we can't settle the discussion, we can certainly try and bring some art to science! Back in 2015 while working on our rebranding, the agency we were working with pitched the idea of trying code-generated art.