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Biblion - The Boundless Library, New York Public Library
Biblion - The Boundless Library, New York Public Library
New York, NY, United States
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Biblion - The Boundless Library, New York Public Library
New York, NY, United States
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2011
Potion designed the New York Public Library’s first iPad app: Biblion The Boundless Library. It was released to the public in May 2011 for the 100th Anniversary opening of its Main Branch. In 1911, the Main Branch employed the most rapid delivery system in the world to retrieve books from “the stacks” in less than six minutes for free. The library served over 50,000 people that first day. One hundred years later, the NYPL has once again employed the most rapid delivery system in the world, the Internet, to make its content immediately available to over 15 million people in seconds for free.In Biblion, each story, essay or image gallery, is visualized as a stack of documents, hanging mid-air in an information landscape. Each story has a unique shape, defined by its content -- short stories are short stacks and in-depth, scholarly essays appear as long stacks. This simple visualization gives each story its own “fingerprint” based on the visual form of its content. A collection of short stories might look like an archipelago, while in-depth essays might resemble tightly packed skyscrapers, piquing a user’s interest. Biblion brings back the experience of the library, in a digitally serendipitous way.
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