Universe is an another interactive by Jonathan Harris creator of We feel fine which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago
Universe had me mesmerised for an hour or so as this is another of his playfully disturbing pieces about the dominant narratives of our culture.
On his site Jonathan Harris describes the project as
As humans, we have a long history of projecting our great stories into the night sky. This leads us to wonder: if we were to make new constellations today, what would they be? If we were to paint new pictures in the sky, what would they depict? These questions form the inspiration for Universe, which explores the notions of modern mythology and contemporary constellations
WordCount is an experiment in the way we use language. It takes 86,800 most frequently used English words ranked in order of most common usage. Typography is used to reveal the information as words are scaled to reflect its frequency of use. The larger the word the more often it is used.
Other projects by Jonathan Harris are Lovelines is an exploration of human desire, while Phylotaxis tackles “where science meets culture” and 10×10 is very well known. All are worth checking out if you have not encountered them before.
