"The act of data visualization is all about bringing facts from the abstract and numerical realm into the sphere of perception, so you can see them, "And I thought, why stop there? What if you could also feel and experience those facts?""
"If you look carefully at letters, you can see a secret history of the world-from the Bronze Age to the Information Age. But because many of these methods, tools, and machines are now obsolete, this history is challenging to follow. Alphabet in Motion leverages tactile, interactive features to help clarify how letters have transformed alongside technological upheavals and shifting aesthetic moods."
"The project is composed of two conjoined, detachable books. The pop-up section includes an interactive, seven-segment display cover that changes from A to Z, 17 moveable paper elements, and hands-on activities. The accompanying 128-page section contains an essay diving into the history and concept of each pop-up, plus 300 color images from the history of type design."
A communication designer moved from information design to making data visceral by adding tactile, experiential dimensions to visualization. A five-year project produced Alphabet in Motion, an ABC pop-up that reconstructs how letters acquired their shapes through archival research and engineered kinetic paper forms. The work traces letterform developments from the Bronze Age to the Information Age and explains how obsolete tools and machines complicate that history. Tactile, interactive mechanisms clarify technological and aesthetic shifts in type. The release pairs a pop-up volume with a 128-page illustrated essay and 300 historical color images, originally funded on Kickstarter.
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