A compendium of unnamed emotions, built into an interactive digital experience.
Overview
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of new words for emotions we all feel but haven't had language for. Qontour built the interactive digital platform – designing the site in Webflow, generating an AI-powered image library, and launching a feature that lets visitors submit their own sorrows and add new definitions to the dictionary.
Digital adaptation
We reimagined the physical book as an online experience – bringing its visual architecture and sensibility to the screen in ways that extend the original experience. The site gives fans (like us) one place to find everything – videos, reviews, interviews, and purchase links – instead of searching across a dozen platforms.
AI visual engine
Using ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, we generated a library of abstract images depicting the book's concepts – the dreamlike space where cerebral meets emotional. Careful prompt engineering produced a cohesive visual language across the entire library, maintaining a consistent tone while each image captures a different nuance.
Community expansion
We launched a Submit Your Sorrow feature that lets visitors share their own unnamed emotions. The system uses GPT-powered etymological generation to craft linguistically rooted terms for each submission – honoring the voice and character of the original book while opening it up to the audience it was written for.
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