Martin Merz

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Martin Merz (born September 17, 1969 in Donauwörth/Germany) is a designer of Amiga related icons. He is married to Kornelia Gerngroß since 2004 and has a son named Max (born October 12, 2006) with her.

He became famous in the Amiga community for his Masonicons series based on Glowicons by Matt Chaput. Merz, who is an autodidact in painting, created packages of AmigaOS related icons for free download, but he also now does custom icon design for software companies and independent developers. The most notable project to date was creating the icons for AmigaOS4 by Hyperion Entertainment.

Mason also invented the Amiga Image Storage System (AISS) - an environment to maintain and access toolbar images under AmigaOS and MorphOS.