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Red Dot Award Product Design registration ends o February 1 and I am anxious to know the finalists, but until then I want o show you one last year’s winner in the communication design category.



Florian Jenett, Carolin Horn and the Massachusetts College of Art, Dynamic Media Institute, Boston, having as supervisor the professor Brian Lucid, have come up with the idea of an innovative e-mail visualization.

The Anymails use the image of microbes as a metaphor to visualize an e-mail inbox showing the structure and specific elements.
For example a microbe can represent the received e-mail, while the microbes moving faster are the newer received messages, those slower and older looking representing the older e-mails.



The user’s options would be to go back in time and check to compare the e-mails received during the last few months or years and to filter or group them by specific attributes to be easier to find.
Florian Jenett worked on coding the prototype in Processing Java-based language.