The Information Inferno

We have “designer” everything, it seems, except “designer books.” And although television is color, movies are in color, and the Web is in color, most books are still in black and white. The Information Inferno, written and designed by Whodini, is the world’s first digitally designed illuminated manuscript. Using lavish full-page color illustrations, and stunning textual effects made possible by recent advances in color printing technologies, Whodini presents an extraordinary vision of what books – whether printed or electronic - will look like in the coming decades. The Information Inferno is being hailed as “the book that changed the way books look.” Just click on a few of the sample pages here, and you will see why. Even the dustjacket is a remarkable innovation: it consists not of one or two large illustrations, but of 28 thumbnails of the colorful spreads inside. “Information wants to be fun,” writes Whodini. The great topics of our day – Information, Complexity, Change, Stress, Time, Books, Science, Religion, Art - explode before your eyes in a brilliant marriage of word and image. From cave paintings 10,000 years old to the latest Hubble photos; from the soundbytes of Socrates and the Buddha to Dante and Machiavelli; from Rembrandt and El Greco to Van Gogh and Michelangelo; from the Koran and the Torah to illuminated manuscripts to the most cutting edge computer effects, Whodini presents our world in a new kind of book – a “designer book.”