About us

As a trained screenwriter, Stefan Stuckmann had been thinking about good paper and the perfect pen long before he found his way to the plotter. The comedy series specialist has been working on productions such as "Pastewka," the "heute show," "Die StiNos," and "Eichwald, MdB" since 2004, and the hard struggle over every punchline has taught him not only that details matter, but also how important good tools are. 

It was Stuckmann's interest in architecture that led him to the pen plotter: Time and again, he came across technical drawings in exhibitions or archives that were not only suitable as art objects entirely independent of the buildings they were made to plan – but were also often completely unknown outside of academic research. The question of how to reproduce these drawings – often crafted by hand over days of work – as faithfully as possible to the original led him to the pen plotter: The same manual process, executed with the same technical ink pens that the architects and draftsmen of the 20th century used – only digital and reproducible.

The street maps by waywayway are a result of this work and influenced by the many works of algorithmic art that are created on pen plotters today. Digitally generated from real street data and manually post-processed, they visualize architecture in an entirely different way: Zoomed far out from the city, built space is reduced here to one of its most fundamental functions – the paths that connect places. And people.