Shop for a spell

March 15, 2005 7:45 PM

amaztype A typographic Amazon search engine, created by Keita Kitamura and Yugo Nakamura.
posted by LinusMines (14 comments total)

Cute, but any flash interfaces like this that are actually useful? If it laid out the cover art in a useful way this could actually catch on.
posted by aerify at 7:58 PM on March 15, 2005

Yugo's done some great work lately.
posted by gwint at 8:00 PM on March 15, 2005

beautiful, but not very usable.
posted by amberglow at 8:16 PM on March 15, 2005

This is awesome.
posted by rafter at 8:20 PM on March 15, 2005

"metafilter" got me a "not found" message. The charm worn off once I went through all the cusswords.
posted by puke & cry at 8:29 PM on March 15, 2005

If I could only find a way to stretch it to huge resolutions, this could make awesome band posters.
posted by rafter at 8:33 PM on March 15, 2005

windowlicker
posted by AlexReynolds at 9:14 PM on March 15, 2005

Sigh... if these talented people would strive to make useful interfaces. I hope someone else will take their ingenuity and make it relevant to user needs.
posted by mania at 9:16 PM on March 15, 2005

Rafter is right, it works great for bands with big discographies. This one in particular is a work of art.
posted by smackfu at 9:43 PM on March 15, 2005

Damn that's nice.
posted by bdave at 12:31 AM on March 16, 2005

Zappa.
posted by bdave at 12:37 AM on March 16, 2005

if these talented people would strive to make useful interfaces

I'm confused by all these claims of unusefulness. I didn't see it as something that was supposed to be useful -- just a neat arty thing. Am I missing something?
posted by chrismear at 12:51 AM on March 16, 2005

Neat in another way... let your little kids search for books.. type in "puppy" or some such word, let them explore....

and...ya know, chrismear is right, not everything has to be "useful"...
posted by HuronBob at 2:15 AM on March 16, 2005

I just realised you can click the covers....
posted by bdave at 2:09 PM on March 16, 2005