martin grasser
@martingrasser
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systems & generative artist | type design
Joined April 2009
Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird. This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,. The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
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Sometime in March we had an approved bird and it launched in May of 2012. This little blue bird did so much over the last 11 years, 🫡
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We liked using a circles to construct our drawings, it felt like the bird should have an underlying neutrality and simplicity about it
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There was essentially no brief, other than we want a new bird, and it should be as good as the Apple and Nike logo. Twitter had made some sort of flying goose - but Jack wanted something simpler
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From that point on we really spent our time perfecting every little detail. so that it felt balanced, and visible as a bird at the smallest of sizes.
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So, I just started drawing birds. Drawing is one of the quickest ways to understand how the shapes can work together
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I was also trying to capture the motion of birds, and the shape that profile created led us to play with that round belly in the 3rd and 4th sketches
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the space between the camera and the object being photographed
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Very excited to share that I am releasing Squares, my first generative art project with @artblocks_io factory . 196 editions available on July 20th @ 1pm EST / 12pm CST & 10 Am PST. A few of my favorite tests below
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mercati. this palette is so nice - collaboration w/ my mom :)
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Effective allocation of capital to the most attractive risk adjusted structures. Squares Corp.™️
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Back in the text editor. txt + .ttf + 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪. AirText_633 @ 2pt.273,144 characters.Tabloid
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Thank you to everyone for all the kind words. Don't quite have words to express how grateful I am for the support. Thank you @artblocks_io and anyone who gave me a like along the way.
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Themes and Variations by Vera Molnar, in Collaboration with Martin Grasser. Tomorrow @ Sothebys. For the last 6 months we have been working with Vera Molnar to make the machine dream N, F, T - it has been an incredible honor, I am so excited to share. ♥️
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I almost forgot to mention - they animate when you hit "a" . "t" for top view.1 for 3000 x 3000.2 for 4500 x 4500. and you know we have as much res as you need if you want to print BIG!!!
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❤️Themes and Variations by Vera Molnar in collaboration with Martin Grasser❤️
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Incredible Vera drawing at the floor - some of the simplst e outputs are my favorite.
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been painting!!!. I am excited to start sharing new work for @redbullracing Velocity Series 2.0. More details and process coming soon, visit the @redbullracing Discord to get them first . #VelocitySeries #paintings #art #f1 #RedBullRacing
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Mint #0. A temporary arrangement of material. Thank you to the crew - I am so porud to work with all of you 🫶. arsh @oddanomaly .Laksh @techedlaksh .Audrey C. Thank you to @emailyedelman and @hugopouch for helping a very confused person through this process, and helping us
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I want to thank @trameparis for the care and craftsmanship they brought to our project together. Working with @IsmaTaziS @ad_tazi, Arte Veneziana was incredible. Showing the mirrors at Vizcaya alongside @jeffgdavis was a night I won't forget. Thank you to @artxcode_io,
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Everything about F1 fascinates me, what an incredible and surreal world to immerse ourselves in. While the speed is incredible, I am also interested in the intensity and repetition of the sport. The blocks of step and repeat colors, logos, graphics, all carved up by the track and
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TENNIS ——> ART .❤️🎾. Set = 1.Game = 10.Point = 3.Match = Tsitsipas v Djokovic.Player = Tsitsipas.Shot = Forehand Drop Shot.Key Trait = Winner.Velocity = 32.8.Round = Round Robin.Palette = Mezzogiorno
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What a nice tweet. Thank you 🥰.
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I have an on-going project that started two years ago called Portraits, and I wanted to share some of the ideas behind the work. Portraits is a collection of Venetian glass mirrors made from text — typically a name, a word, or short phrase.
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squares. couldn't love it anymore. I hope you can feel California in the work.
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L🎾VE! . One of my favorite process images. The camera considers its options!!!. ❤️ and thanks to @oddanomaly @techedlaksh Audrey Chen, Katie B., @Toni_Marinara, @sofiagarcia_io, @artxcode_io, @artblocks_io, @_MarkEpps, @atptour & everyone who helped push this project forward.
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ART!. “Even today, my greatest pleasure in life is to slide the top of the tip of a pencil over the paper, look at the mark, erase it and start again”. - Vera Molnar.
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light moving around the studio - bouncing off the mirrors
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a temporary arrangement of material . is a project about art-making, the space in between digital and analog; and the fragmented and aggregated images we encounter every day. We started with a pile of colorful spray painted paper. a thread
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Corporate Stock Buy Back (squares 161). Squares Corp ®🫡
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