Superfast! Interactive Book

Superfast! Our Fatigued Body and Society is a book that examines speed, overdrive, and exhaustion within contemporary work and consumer culture through the synthesis of two found texts: “Superfast Jellyfish,” a song by the virtual band Gorillaz, and A Little History of Fatigue by sociologist Tom Melick. Placed in dialogue, these texts expose a dialectical tension between acceleration and burnout, stimulation and depletion.

The project’s visual language is driven by generative typography, developed through original sketches coded in p5.js, where creative algorithms map and transform letterforms to balance legibility with poetic abstraction. Emphasizing horizontality and implied motion—drawing inspiration from the physical act of applying paint on canvas—the work interrogates the materiality of code-based visuals by blurring the boundary between digital and analog, reintroducing a tactile sensibility into computational design.

• Duration

  November - December 2025

• Mentor

  Megan Irwin, Amy Auman

• Language

  p5.js, vanilla web (HTML/CSS/JS)

• Website

  superfastbook.com