# Designing with Coding Agents

May 27, 2026 · teaching, ai, creative-coding, generative-typography

Canonical: https://www.romellogoodman.com/writing/designing-with-coding-agents
Originally published: https://mellogood.substack.com/p/designing-with-coding-agents

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I have a new course that Im teaching at Type@Cooper this June! It's called "[Designing with Coding Agents](https://coopertype.org/events/designing-with-coding-agents)" and here's the description:

> Every tool has its own grain. A brush favors gestures, a grid favors order, and a coding agent favors conversation. Each changes what it means to author something.
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> In this workshop, students use a coding agent as a creative collaborator to write JavaScript and p5.js sketches. Week one, you make a word move. Week two, you build a tool that manipulates letterforms. Week three, your body becomes the input.
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> Whether you've written code before or not, this course serves as an introduction to coding agents. It treats the agent as a new kind of design tool: one worth understanding, questioning, and making your own.

This course is an outgrowth of what I've been exploring in both my practice as an artist and an educator. In [Generating, Generative Typography](https://mellogood.substack.com/p/generating-generative-typography), I started to imagine what my current lessons and teaching strategies had to gain from the introduction of llms and coding agents. In this course I am taking it a step further and have built the entire lesson plan around these new tools. The goal is to create a space where code can more easily become a tool for designers. It is an attempt to teach through the shift that we are living through. An attempt at expanding who can be creative with code.

[Register here](https://coopertype.org/events/designing-with-coding-agents)

-Mello

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Here is the [source image on the left](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ICT_1301_Gothenburg_1962.jpg) and here is the [source image on the right](https://whitney.org/education/families/kids-art-challenge/sol-lewitt#).