Real Time Markup Language (RTML) – Webdesign based on a sensor-driven dynamic CSS stylesheet, reflecting in real-time the state of the physical space it is reporting about.

RTML installation / Graphic Design Festival Breda

A good design enriches the communicative powers of the item it is applied to, be it a product, a piece of text or an event. Choosing the right style is crucial to present the deeper meaning that cannot be communicated on the surface, by the content. Although design appears to be a very visual matter, its fundaments are invisible sets of rules we unknowingly apply while interpreting what we see. The RTML code operates on that invisible level, generating designs originating from the core level, by parsing the rules of common design sense and processing and tweaking those in a programmatic way. Why? If a good design is so crucial to properly communicate a message or an atmosphere, what to do when the atmosphere is in constant flux?

RTML website formatting provides a solution: a sensor driven adaptive interface, reflecting in real-time an atmosphere of a certain space just by the look-and-feel of the visual presentation, not by the content. RTML as a metaphorical showcase of the two layers of design, with the RTML structure being the invisible ruleset defining the aesthetic message the graphical output communicates.