Martin Grasser is a generative artist based in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California, whose work explores typography, systems and forms of repetition. 

Grasser’s career path to generative digital art includes designing the original Twitter (X) bird logo in 2012 alongside Todd Waterbury and Angy Che, picked out by former CEO, Jack Dorsey from among 24 variations. The Color Dot Font 2017, where Grasser replaced each Latin font character with different coloured dots, highlighted his unique artistic interest in typefaces and was rewarded with a nomination in 2021 for his experimental work. His fascination with letterforms evolved into other methods of visually representing written language, which since 2022 has leveraged the blockchain, beginning with the generative collection Squares. 

Later in 2022, Grasser broke new ground by generating art from tennis data in Love and in 2023, produced Themes & Variations in collaboration with renowned computer art pioneer Vera Molnár.

In December 2023, Grasser minted his latest NFT series Portraits, which uses an abstract type generator to assign a combination of unique colour and rectangular tiles to each letter of the alphabet, then visualise a name, word or phrase for the 12 artworks of the collection.

Physically represented with Venetian mirror tiles in an aluminium frame, the collection brings the viewer into the narrative of each piece, challenging traditional concepts of portraiture. 

‘Portraits is…inviting dialogue with its viewers through imbued text, form, color, and fragmented reflections, each mirror is just as exact and slippery as the language used to create it.’ Martin Grasser