Shape Grammars

Shape Grammars is a study on generative shapes, asking: how can unique pieces be mass produced? Jannis Maroscheck designed and programmed 12 production systems that are able to draw an unlimited number of individual graphic shapes. The result is a systematic catalog – a kind of dictionary of shapes – for browsing forms and their formulas. With 150.000 shapes, sorted from the strictly geometric to the organically free, the book functions as a useful manual for Designers, Architects and everybody working with shapes, while exploring the nature of infinite variation through automated design.

Jannis Maroscheck is a German graphic designer. He studied at the Faculty of Design Wuerzburg and the Tokyo University of the Arts. He works as an independent designer and consultant in the culture, technology and finance industry, designing print, digital and spatial products. His research practice deals with automation processes in graphic design, form- and image synthesis.