Consumeristic Pictotype.
On Erik Spiekermann’s blog, I found a link to something very interesting, called Amaztype. The site asks you to choose one of Amazon’s different databases, media type (book, cd, dvd, etc.), title or author and asks for a search term. What it then does is searches Amazon’s database for that word, gathering sample images and data when it finds it. Finally, the site generates the search term you entered using the media it found. Tis a rather fun and interesting page!
