Born Digital competition

I’ll go back to the food porn shortly. (Yesterday evening I had an excuse for not writing: a hot date. Today I have no such excuse.)

Meanwhile, there’s a competition going on at futureofthebook.org:

Our first competition calls for a reinvention of the illuminated manuscript. How will this ancient art evolve as multimedia begins to take a central role in our reading experience? Send us a single illustrated page that exploits the unique possibilities of the digital medium while preserving the classic illuminative relationship between text and image.

Nice! Were I at all good at graphic design or video work, I’d totally go for it with Roland. As it stands, I’ll sit back and watch the results, which should be beautiful.

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2 Responses to “Born Digital competition”

  • t o n x Says:
    January 6th, 2005 at 7:36 pm

    i think its probably a mistake to think of illumated manuscripts as simply a combination of text and image. Terence McKenna has a juicy lecture on Marshall McLuhan that covers some intruiging ideas about this:

    poor transcript: Riding Range with Marshall McLuhan

    There is audio of this < a href="http://mckenna.psychedelic-library.org/terence%20mckenna%20-%20RidingRangeWithMarshallMcluhan%20rc.mp3">here

  • vika Says:
    January 7th, 2005 at 10:40 am

    Tonx – oh, I agree. I think Futurebook people do too, actually: they mention the “classic illuminative relationship between text and image.” To me, that implies a two-way relationship, and one more complex than combination.

    Or are there elements in a manuscript page that extend beyond the categories “text” and “image”? In which case, would you expand a bit?