Give your world a voice
CITYSPK is an interactive warehouse of urban photos that lets you compose, read and exchange messages using glyphs. These glyphs are the letters, numbers and symbols that users extract directly from photos of city scenery. The point? To build a community of people from all over the world who can correspond with each other in the visual language of cities.


CITYSPK is a place to share photos
Once you've created a user profile in CITYSPK, you can upload photos to your personal webspace, annotate them with the info you want, arrange the images into customized albums, and share them with the contacts you choose.


CITYSPK is a tool for composing messages
The ever-growing collection of glyphs in the CITYSPK database gives you free rein to design fun, visually rich messages that have your own unique style but reveal the special texture of each different city as well.


CITYSPK is an online community
We want you to be a part of this fast-expanding community. You can share your messages with contacts from all over the world, contribute photos to the site's interactive database, and extract glyphs from your own images to share with other users.


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Explore

In CITYSPK you can explore the sights, signs and symbols of the world's great cities as if you were right there at street-level. Thanks to a user-built database, the site gives you a fantastic window onto the best urban photos on the Web.

 
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Receive

When you receive a CITYSPK message, you're also getting an invitation to see the world through chosen photographs . The messages sent via CITYSPK are full of great images and visual mashups that take you to another place and time.
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Compose

Creating a message that uses glyphs is easy. You'll find you can compose attention-grabbing, visually unique messages in no time at all. A simple phrase can be transformed into a stunning image with just a few clicks of the mouse.
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Organize

Members of the CITYSPK online community have a suite of tools for managing their personal webspace and organizing, into albums, the photos, glyphs and finished messages they've contributed or composed, that they can share with their favorite contacts.
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Customize

The Compose function includes complete and easy to use online tools for editing your messages and adding fun visual effects to create uniques works of art. You can save your draft for later and when you decide to send your message, the advanced Send function lets you attach an interactive gallery of personal images, and include a private note to the recipient as well.
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Participate

CITYSPK is an open community of people from all over the world who love photography and the graphic arts. The users make the site a vibrant place for creative exchanges by contributing their best photos from cities around the globe, as well as the letters, numbers and symbols they've extracted from these photos. The result is a fully connected creative network that lets people use the language of cities in a new and imaginative way.
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Send

Messages created in CITYSPK are sent to the recipients chosen by the user. Every message can be kept private or made viewable by others in the community. Users can also send messages to a specified group of contacts, and keep copies of messages (ones that have been sent, received or just drafted) in their personal webspace.

Search

With the aid of context-sensitive parameters, the Search component of CITYSPK gives you many ways to find what you need. When you want to use a particular kind of photo, glyph or finished message, you can search by Keyword (all images are tagged by neighborhood, color, texture, subject and so on) or by Text (for words in the titles and descriptions of each image).