MICROSOFT COURIER PHASE I
DUAL TOUCHSCREEN NOTEBOOK (2008)

A freelance project before my full time employment with MINIMAL, the initial brief for what would later become the Courier
was to design around the idea of a digital scrapbook. The result was just as much about experience as it was about the product.
My thoughts were to look into a cross between digital and analogue: as if a Moleskine were to blend with technology.
Initially I based my concept around dual touch-screen active-matrix e-ink displays, a rear imager to 'grab' images on the fly, as
well as an ability to maniuplate, save and share text and sketches and easily output them back into the physical world
using Zero Ink printing technology. As the project became more real, the Courier developed into a high-powered digital
notebook that would be an endless journal based on creation and sharing, but unfortunately the program was canceled at
the crucial moment between concept and reality.