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Visual Aid: Stuff You've Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew, and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning
"Visual Aid" provides the answers to the little questions in life in a simple, colorful, and engaging way. This eclectic collection of illustrations and diagrams gets readers up to speed on life's basics, without the need for extensive reading.
Paperback, 196 pages
Published
October 7th 2008
by Black Dog Publishing Limited London
(first published September 22nd 2008)
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I learned a lot from this book. This was one of those books I picked up in the bookstore and had to own. I've been especially interested in infographics recently and this book is a few hundred pages of, exactly as the title implies, visual aids, to remembering everything from the colors of the rainbow to cuts of beef. I also learned that there was a different sign language for the US and UK and it shows both. I'm now inspired to learn the phonetic alphabet, the wine regions of France and Ita...more
Some of the visualizations in this book were striking... Most however, were pretty ordinary and more confusing than insightful. Additionally (and though I probably shouldn't have been surprised) they were all done in the same style and seemed to have the same 'take' on things. So one visualization for how something worked would be imagined in the same way as how something else worked. Likewise for size, scale, etc.
Very cool book. It literally is page after page of illustrations of things you should know, for example Henry VIII's wives, the comparative sizes of the planets in the solar system, hands of poker and the make up of the human eye.
Great to browse through and very cool for kids.
Great to browse through and very cool for kids.
Bought at the Design Museum in London, funny little book that lives up to its title with loads of infographics on many, many things. From baking pancakes to the size of fictional space ships, it’s there.
Fantastic book and was delighted to find out they have just opened the Visual Aid Shop an online shop of all the pages as posters: www.visualaid-shop.com
As a creative media specialist, this is a go-to source for interesting visual presentation of ideas.
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