Results arrive as a spatial graph — the most relevant object foregrounded, its relatives arranged around it by tier.
The topology of design knowledge.
TYPOTHEKA is a research instrument that maps designed objects as a living graph — searchable at the level of object, part, material, source, and lineage.
Every handle, hinge, seam and shell is addressable. Any part of any object becomes the next query.
Successions, analogies and material systems — traced against museum records with verified · attributed · inferred confidence.
Saved objects keep their sources and relationships — a board that later becomes a generation canvas.
Data & Provenance
Every record is traced to a source. Confidence is explicit — nothing is presented as canon unless a collection says so.
MoMA · Vitra Design Museum · V&A · Design Museum London · Triennale Milano · SFMOMA · The Met · Braun Sammlung
Verifiedchecked against a museum accession record
Attributedsupporting sources partial
Inferredfrom visual and metadata similarity
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