Digital Reading (applications & installations)
Books
- Alchemy: An Installation (Simon Biggs): a digitally illuminated Book of Hours
- Beyond Pages (Masaki Fujihata): a virtual picture book
- Illuminated Manuscript (David Small): “Combining physical interfaces with purely typographical information in a virtual environment, this piece explored new types of reading in tune with human perceptual abilities.”
Displays
- E Ink Electronic Paper Display (EPD) (“Products made with E Ink’s revolutionary electronic ink technology possess a paper-like high contrast appearance, ultra-low power consumption, and a thin, light form”)
- Electronic Paper Prototypes: E-Ink; Bridgestone; SiPix Imaging
Screen Environments
- Cave Writing (Brown University)
- Poetry Machine 1.0 (David Link): interactive installation
- Wired: Cell phones put to novel use
Text & Typographic Tools
- Chronotext
- I’Ching Poetry Generator
- Intersection: a study in typographic space
- Ivanhoe (SpecLab, UVa): “an environment for textual interpretation, designed to foster critical awareness of the methods and perspectives through which students and scholars understand humanities documents”
- News Reader: “software for reading and playing the network news environment”
- Newsmap
- TextArc: a visual representation of a text on a single page
- txtkit: “an Open Source visual text mining tool for exploring large amounts of multilingual texts”
- Wordnews
Visual Text
- Calliscopes (dataisnature)
- Letterscapes (Peter Cho)
- RoboType (Paco Bascuñán + Inklude)
- Textension (Josh Nimoy): “visual experiments in interactive text layout”
- Typedrawing and Typo Scope(storyabout)
- Typographic Illustration (Ni9e.com)