Altered Moby-Dick (2016)

Interactive typographical designs inspired by Moby-Dick

Altered Moby-Dick is a work by Kate Sweetapple, Gemma Warriner, Kristelle De Freitas and Jacquie Lorber-Kasunic. It explores the structural and lexical qualities of Herman Melville’s 1851 book Moby-Dick: The Whale.

As part of the early conceptualisation process, I developed a series of real-time interactive typographical experiments using Processing.

I also provided the artists with software engineering support using natural language processing techniques to generate the extracts from the book in a format that could be used as input to the design tools used to create the work.

For more details about the final work visit the staff showcase page for the Faculty of Design and Architecture, University of Technology Sydney.