Generative art for cult Netflix series Applied Works collaborated with designer Zoë Bather on Inside Black Mirror, the first official book about the cult Netflix series. We developed a visual aesthetic for the book’s chapter openers, and launched a digital version to coincide with the 2018 interactive episode, Bandersnatch. Reflecting the chaotic dystopia of Black Mirror, we built a series of digital filters to abstract an image from each episode, allowing us to relinquish a certain level of control over the visual aesthetic. Our emoji filter redraws images as a tapestry of themed emojis. 15 Million Merits was created from hundreds of bicycles, microphones, notes and stars. Our vector explosion filter uses core motifs from different episodes, like the White Bear icon, and explodes them across the page. The pixel sorting filter deconstructs images into layers using brightness thresholds, and then sorts each pixel in an area by colour. The offset filter splits images into RGB values, redrawing and layering them as different shapes with a slight offset and transparency. We applied the four filters across the title page and 19 chapters, creating a varied but cohesive set of artwork. Zoë Bather and Applied Works have given Inside Black Mirror a suitably eerie aesthetic Aimée McLaughlin Creative Review The website we created coincided with the 2018 interactive episode Bandersnatch, where users could create and share their own looping GIFs. Previous Project ← BBC iWonder Interactives Next Project Sustainability Trends Report →