Card plaything, 115 x 150 mm, 2021

Overview

Lazy Dog is a small text toy derived from the phrase “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. Readers push and pull the strips to create new variations.

Background

This started as a thought experiment, idly scribbling synonyms in my notebook for each words. Initially, I thought I could make it in to an interactive web thing, but then decided it would be more fun to make it out of card as physical object. Initially set in proportional type, I changed that to a monospace font so that each column could remain the same width.

Although nothing is taken from it directly, the book The Elements of Pop-Up sits on the bookshelf above my desk and probably got me thinking about push and pull strips.