The_dimka: codex seraphinianus. In the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer luigi serafini made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet. it took him 30 month to complete that masterpiece that many might call “the strangest book on earth”. codex seraphinianus is divided to 11 chapters and two parts - first one is about nature and the second one is about people.btw five hundred years ago there was another book somewhat like that - voynich manuscript. take a look at some pages (click on image to see a bigger version) amazon sells those for 500 bucks or more you can read about it in wikipedia.i can’t even tell you how much i like stuff like that phat a?
Update 2 i ordered the book and it arrived. it is gigantic in size, thick and large. print, paper and binding quality is superb. they also insert a booklet - decodex, but it is in italian and i have not mastered that one yet. Victor locuratolo. Grain2Sel. The social network for professionals in entertainment - Animation, Movies, Visual Effects, Games, Illustration, Concept Artists, and more. If you make cool stuff, join us! Ict tools - visual learner. VARK as a simple and usable approach to tackling Learning styles. For the classroom practitioner we need something that is simple to apply and use. Gardner's Model of Multiple Intelligences is brilliant work, but it is to unwieldy and complicated to use in the classroom . However Fleming (2001) proposed a simpler model that is easy to used, applied and tested with my students. This model is VARK Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic.
So visual learner are those whose prefered learning style (in a learning situation) is what they see. These learner likeSeeing teachers body language and facial expressionsPictures, illustrations and diagramsPostersCartoonsCollagesSlide showsTV ShowsFilms and VideosFlowchartscolouring booksGraphs and chartsmapsFlash cardsUnderlining and highlightingSo to lets have a look at these different "likes" of the visual learner and match some tools to these. many of these tools can be used again and again TV Shows Video and Movies Visual Planning Flash Cards Maps.
Visual Thinking. Images. Architecture. Spectacle vivant. JapanArt.