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Anymails was conceptualized and designed by Carolin Horn and coded by Florian Jenett for a 2007 MFA thesis at the Dynamic Media Intitute Boston. If your inbox is clean as a whistle, you might not have any use for this kind of thing, but if you've got all sorts of emails--old, new, read, unread, spam, newsletters, bills, etc.--then you're in for a treat when you Anymails-ize it.

Each email is represented by an "animal" organized into species according to the family and friends, school, job, e-commerce, unclassified, and spam categories. Hairiness/hairlessness and speed represent status, while the size and level of opacity note how old the email is. The emails will form strings when organized, filtered, and grouped according to attributes like status, sender, or time.

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