Your Email Is an Animal

If your email could be an animal what would it be? Anymails is part of Carolin Horn's MFA thesis project while attending the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art. The program assigns different animated species to specific messages within Apple Mail, as illustrated through a screen grab of Horn's design.

Unread messages have tons of hair and move quickly, read messages have less hair and moderate motion, and responded messages have no hair and move at a snail's pace. The older the message the smaller the animal.

When you launch the program, anymails swim freely across your screen. Because most of us have hundreds of emails in our inbox, you can set the program to only show anymails from today, last week, last month, etc.

According to Horn:

The user can see the amount of received emails by the amount of animals. He can see how many emails he has received from which category by the different colored and formed animals. Are there more spam (brown animals) or more emails from family and friends (light green animals)?

You can select specific anymails, which pops up tags with information about that email, along with attracting like anymails.

[via Core77]