Tag: typography

Past

Reactive Books

Post author By David
Post date July 8, 2010

All of John Maeda‘s work is amazing and inspiring, but I find his series of Reactive Books to be among the most engaging and thought-provoking. Created between 1994 and 1999, each book explored the use of a different input: microphone, mouse, time, keyboard, and video. At a time when interactive media was trying to be […]

Tags ACG, Auteur Theory, code-based design, Digitalogue, John Maeda, MIT Media Lab, Reactive Books, typography

Past Special

Muriel Cooper: Information Landscapes

Post author By David
Post date February 1, 2010

Financial Viewpoints, by Lisa Strausfeld

In 1994 Muriel Cooper presented work at the TED5 conference in Monterey, CA that changed the way designers thought of the possibilities of electronic media. The work, from her group at the MIT Media Lab‘s Visible Language Workshop (or VLW), took typography, literally, into three dimensions — and gave it dynamics and interactivity that had […]

Tags 3D, design research, Feature, Information Landscapes, Lisa Strausfeld, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Muriel Cooper, TED, typography, VLW