Martin Grasser
Martin Grasser is an artist and designer based in the Bay Area.
He works across corporate design, fine art and type design—exploring systems, abstraction, and translation. In 2021, his typeface Color Dot Font received a prize nomination in Experimental Work from the Tokyo Type Directors Club. Some of his most notable projects include the design of the iconic Twitter Bird, the creation of the “Choose Go” film for Nike, and a recently released generative art project titled “Squares” on the Art Blocks platform.
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Dyslexic Dictionary
Dyslexic Dictionary is a provocation — an invitation to explore and redefine.
Nine dyslexic artists have been commissioned to produce a creative response to a book, word, poem, quote, article or even a single letter that highlights how their minds experience language.
The exhibition illuminates the dyslexic experience of language in powerfully graphical terms. Dyslexia pushes artists to interpret the world differently. The end result celebrates a vibrant diversity of dyslexic talent across mediums and backgrounds in an effort to lead a paradigm shift in the way society understands learning differences.
We chose the term “dictionary” as a placeholder for a collection of reimaginations and reinterpretations of the dyslexic experience that will explode the very notion of a dictionary.
The mission is to present dyslexia as a visionary, positive force — a hyper-ability that does not create but instead solves problems.
More than just an exhibition, Dyslexic Dictionary is a forum to showcase dyslexic ingenuity, host public conversation and gather community.
a change to a different form, or appearance
Sometimes we can all look at the same thing and see something different.
"Each language has different eyes sitting inside its words."
-Herta Muller, The Space between Languages, 2011
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