Wednesday 22 September 2010

Concept books ...

Why should cars get all the fancy concept models? Here are a few for the book:



The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.



Via the wonderful Gizmodo. As noted in the comments there, most of the hardware to do this already exists, and many iPad apps are not too far away. What is impressive here is that elements of the work have been rethought to work in the digital medium. The none-sequential novel with parallel chapters accessable through motions is a fascinating idea. Interesting to think that a change in delivery format could affect the way literature is written.



Back to earth, here is a great example of taking something dry like a Library annual report and making it interesting and accessible with digital media.

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