I spent part of the weekend at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and one of their signature restaurants, Comme Ca, had some very nice placemats… You put your plate on top of a visualization of Henry David Thoreau’s quote “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”.
Food was great – both looking at, seeing and eating.
One of my favorite books about Visual Communication is Connie Malamed’s Visual Communication for Designers. It is a fantastic visual journey through the principles of how we process visual communication and the principles of visual communication. In the book you find several illustrations by Jean Manuel Duviver. Not only do I love his illustration style (makes me wish I would become an artist in my next life) – but I love the way he has managed to illustrate the concept of visual communication.
When Max Atkinson, communications researcher and consultant, was invited to the UK Speechwriter’s Guild earlier this year, he put together this movie to illustrate
the use of an object as a visual aid and how it can sometimes have an impressive impact when it comes to getting a point across to an audience. It’s a brilliant little film – my favorite part is when Professor Chris Bishop at the Royal Institution visualizes the foucault’s pendulum to a group of children.
Read more at Max Atkinson’s thoughts on objects as visual aids here: http://maxatkinson.blogspot.com/2010/09/objects-as-visual-aids-uk-speechwrite…
