My thesis project, Roaring Parnassus: The Futurebook and the Historical Avant-Garde, celebrates the innovation and creativity of book designers in the early 20th century. Their ideas inspired and guided my design thinking about the future of books—both print and digital—framing how these formats relate to each other.

This page displays some some experimental concepts for the “futurebook”—the rendering of literature and non-fiction texts into multiple formats for the modern reader. I have attempted to utilize current technology to take the content, genre, and structure of the narrative text to create multimedia digital book design that considers opportunities for typography, image, and motion. Like physical books on a bookshelf, the squares on this website represent the book projects that have been collected into one digital space. Rolling over each image reveals the title of the book. Clicking on the image displays the project in an iframe, allowing for full navigation of the project without leaving the page.