There's something special about the layout of a print-edition newspaper. A news website has infinite vertical scrolling space, but a printed front page is fixed to the same size every day. This constraint creates a very particular aesthetic and – if done well – a sense of typographic balance.

I wanted to preserve this analog feeling and infuse it with the possibilities of smart home technology. That's why I made Paper, a radically simple prototype that does exactly one thing: show today's front page on a large e-paper display.

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