Work

Title

Elektrobiblioteka

Author

Waldek Węgrzyn

Date

2012

Description

The project consists of a 32 page book and accompanying website (www.elektrobiblioteka.net). Both forms may work as independent publications. Moreover, the book is provided with a built-in USB interface, which enables it to be connected to the computer. Together with the website it forms a publication that contains both printed and digital content (texts, illustrations, hyperlinks, source quotations, etc.). By turning book pages, a reader is able to navigate the website. The tactile sensors embedded in the illustrations let a user to activate additional animations.

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Statement

The attempt to connect features and mechanisms characteristic for print and digital media was aimed at comparing together the two different technologies and examining the posibility of their cooperation both from the designer's and the reader's perspective.

URL

www.elektrobiblioteka.net, info.elektrobiblioteka.net

Medium

Book, Website

Edition

3

Pages

32

Technology

Teensy USB Development Board, Conductive Ink

Related

Electrolibrary by Waldek Węgrzyn – Paper book as interface” by Filip Visnjic, Creative Applications Network, August 28, 2012.

Keywords

augmentation, bookness, hybrid, online

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