TYPOTOPO :: about

Links to people and projects exploring typography, mapping, and computational media:

Ben Fry is well-known for his genomic and text visualization studies. He and Casey Reas are the creators of Processing, an environment and community for digital media creation.
W. Bradford Paley’s software visualization work TextArc displays an entire text simultaneously as index, concordance, and summary.
David Small of Small Design Firm has created many typographic interactive and dynamic installations for cultural and corporate clients.
Muriel Cooper’s group at the MIT Media Laboratory, the Visible Language Workshop, engaged in ground-breaking experiments in electronic media and computer graphics.
John Maeda is a pioneer of the computational design movement and writes a blog about simplicity.
Yugo Nakamura’s web experiments represent some of the earliest (remember the Mona Lisa?) and best interactive work online.
Marius Watz’s Unlekker.net and Amoeba.
Marcos Weskamp’s site marumushi.com, also home of the Newsmap.
Josh Nimoy has created many innovative computational typography works.
David Lu
Pentagram partner Lisa Strausfeld focuses on digital information design projects (and collaborates with some of the other people on this list).
Christian Marc Schmidt
Martin Wattenberg
Cyber Geography researches how we create maps of networks, especially the Internet.
Anne Burdick’s print and online design practice explores the process of giving form to complex information spaces.
Alexander Gelman