Given the nature of this blog (and my obsession with communicating over distances), I thought this project by Henrietta Swift was both appropriate and minimalistically beautiful:

It’s a book that folds out to 13 metres and has lines on it of varying lengths.  On one end, “I am here.”  On the other, “You are there.”

The lines represent modes of communication, from a trip on a train or car to a text message, with lengths that correspond to the amount of time it takes to deliver a message across the total distance.

More pictures and a detailed explanation here.

(and yes.  I made up the word “minimalistically.”  Hush.)