""Elliott and I have been part of this scene for the past five years, and while it feels that more and more people are joining the conversation, it can still be a challenge to find each other, so we made an open call and asked people to submit their websites for a physical directory,""
"The aesthetic of the book follows this warmth - a lovely, analogue yellow and a simple typeface that refers back to The Whole Earth Catalog, Mollie Katzen's cookbooks, classic 90s phone books and train timetables inspired by Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Deutsche Bahn colour schemes."
""Elliott designed the book using HTML and CSS, and was sent to the printer using Paged.JS and CTRL+P. Basically, we worked on it on Github as any other website. I think this gives the book a specific feeling of something that is both a website and book, and neither,""
Elliott Cost and Kristoffer Tjalve created Internet Phone Book as a physical directory for people interested in the web as a medium and material. The project invites experimental, personal, weird and poetic websites through an open call that generated over 800 submissions. The book adopts a warm, analogue visual language referencing The Whole Earth Catalog, Mollie Katzen, 90s phone books and European train timetables. The design embraces a handmade, Utopian Scholastic aesthetic while using modern tooling: HTML, CSS, Paged.JS and Github-based workflows. The result intentionally blurs boundaries between website and book and fosters connection among internet creators.
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