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The World's First Collaborative Sentence

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These works reject seamless design.

 In modern design, being highly considerate with user experiences such as with the case of intuitive interfaces, grid-like formations that informed the digital age and currently, led us into the contemporary digital landscape. In contemporary digital design, function over form itself, mirroring Beatrice's wards seminal essay “The Crystal Goblet” in where she argues typography should be a transparent vessel to which holds the content” These works disagree and use their striking or even unexpected forms to guide us into the content.

I think the use of the forum text, specifically the text box. as an art and a collaboration project is an imperfect substrate: The sentence itself is nonsensical and incoherent at points, it becomes a digital collaboration using only text as the art form.


 

The World's First Collaborative Sentence 1
Source: whitney.org
The World's First Collaborative Sentence 2
Source: whitney.org