TDC Awards
The TDC competition, established in 1953, is the longest running, most prestigious, global typography and type design competition. Now in its 70th year, these awards are all about how letterforms are used and drawn, recognizing typographic excellence and celebrating new typeface designs in all global languages.
Shape Grammars
Category
Books / Single
Annual ID
TDC68_081C
Description
Based on the work of Sol LeWitt, graphic designer Jannis Maroscheck has designed and programmed a number of Shape Grammars – production programs that can 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. Accumulating 150.000 shapes, sorted from the strictly geometric to the organically free, the book is a useful manual for Designers, Architects and everybody working with shapes, showing the nature of infinite graphic variation through automated design. At the same time, the work serves as a basis for further research on more complex systems and artificial intelligence.
2022 Awards
Total Points: 20
TDC Winner
Credits
Studio
Jannis Maroscheck / Berlin
Publisher
Slanted Publishers / Karlsruhe
Designer
Jannis Maroscheck
Advisor
Gertrud Nolte
Publishing Direction
Julia Kahl
Lars Harmsen
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