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Design Category
Experience design, 2001
Design firm
Garden Digital (Los Angeles, California)
Collection
(2002) AIGA 365: 23
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Morphosis.net is an online database of buildings and projects by Morphosis Architects. An infinite number of compositions is generated by the layering of everyday website elements with a life-like simulation of the database. Each project is represented by a particle that operates as a discrete personality within this dynamic ecology. A vector path traces the user’s browsing history, mapping the mechanics of their interactions. The reductive and elementary appearance of the interface is reminiscent of an earlier aesthetic, reassuring the user as they navigate the unfamiliar.
“This site has all the right ideas—it explores navigation, database principles and automation in new and interesting ways.”