Information Landscapes

Information Landscapes. Visible Language Workshop. (c) MIT Media Lab. July 1994.

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 never been seen before. Tragically it was just after this that she passed away. (…)

Project Credits:

TYPOGRAPHIC SPACE
Muriel Cooper
David Small
Suguru Ishizaki

NYNEX SHUTTLE
Rob SIlvers

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
Ron MacNeil
Jeffrey Ventrella

FINANCIAL VIEWPOINTS
Lisa Strausfeld

BROWSING THE NET
Earl Rennison

FILTERING THE NEWS
Yin Yin Wong

For more information see the blog post

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