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A directory of lightweight websites organised around page resource size.
Discover independent sites and examples of presenting information with fewer page resources.
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Interactive illustrated essays about mechanics, optics and astronomy.
A useful reference for explaining complex structures through visual interaction.
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Essays on energy and everyday life through older and low-tech approaches.
A different perspective on technological progress, hosted on a solar-powered website designed to reduce energy use. The solar-powered site may occasionally be offline.
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An archive of disappearing everyday sounds, including telephones, cameras and typewriters.
Rediscover familiar objects through sound, with leads for sound-based work and the history of everyday life.
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Explore historical maps, atlases and related images by place, period and other details.
Compare how the same place was drawn at different moments in history, connecting geography with visual storytelling.
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Explore visualisations of wind, weather and ocean data on a globe you can rotate.
Turn abstract data into visible patterns of movement. Each layer has its own source and timestamp, which are worth reading alongside the map.
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A directory of interactive explanations about mathematics, science and society.
Change a parameter and see what follows. The directory also points to tools and tutorials for making interactive explanations.
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Explore historical colour processes in photography and film through a timeline and technical categories.
Connect colour with the materials and techniques that produced it, with images, explanations and bibliographic leads.
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Drop a font file into your browser to inspect glyphs, OpenType features and font data.
Look beyond a sample sentence to inspect character coverage, weight and typographic features. The site states that files are not uploaded to a server.
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Step-by-step diagrams for lacing shoes, tying knots and working with shoelaces.
An everyday task becomes a surprisingly rich collection of methods to compare and try.
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An interactive online edition of a nineteenth-century illustrated encyclopaedia.
Follow connections between plants, machinery, navigation and more, while exploring how knowledge was pictured before modern digital media.
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An independent search engine focused on non-commercial content, personal sites and text-heavy pages.
A different starting point when you want to move beyond familiar platforms and follow individual voices across the web.
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Small interactive works and games exploring trust, choices and how systems behave.
Turn abstract questions into situations you can experiment with, and explore how interactive storytelling can explain an idea.
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Browse historical illustrations, prints and photographs by theme, period and creator.
A place to explore composition, colour and print details across periods. Check the source notes on individual images before reusing them.
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A digital library presenting rare books, paintings and other historical documents.
Useful for research, or simply for looking closely at how typography, illustrations and page layouts work together in old books.
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