AmazType

Get your search results in graphical form.

AmazType is an amazing Flash web application, programmed by Yugo Nakamura, which uses Amazon's search API to return results as book cover thumbnails, and then arranges them to form your search words.

This guy is just too cool.

Check out another new offering from Nakamura for Japan's NID (Nagaoka Institute of Design), a fascinating UI for displaying students, teachers and other artists of the institute along with their work in a compellingly interactive way.