Located in the Providence Public Library, Providence, RI, Literate Geometry is an exhibition designed to celebrate the best of literary excerpts.  By displaying text as single words, phrases, and paragraphs imposed onto surfaces, a forest of geometric shapes is created.  By the use of color as circulation wayfinding and as a way to spark emotions, the user experience becomes unique and inviting.

These initial concept ideas focus on how color and text can be placed or projected within the current space.

Color through projected lighting creates a sense of movement through the sequence of colors.  This sketch looks at which colors can easily blend into one another, which became a challenge because the emotional effects of color are also considered.  

By choosing geometric shapes as the surfaces for the text allows for a series of shapes that are modular to keep consistancy.  The shapes are also fitted to become designed as furniture to be placed throughout the space.  The material of the shapes is 3form chroma.

Studies were done to look at relationships of projected text and color, transparency and solid, and how they can interact.  Models were also made of the geometric possibilities of how the shapes can intersect to create a large, sculptural mass.

The text is displayed on the geometry and also on glass panels installed in the exhibit to aid circulation.  The text on the panels lists the novels from which the text throughout the entire display originates, as well as larger paragraphs and phrases as expression.  Single words and other phrases are installed on the geometric surfaces.