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''With its playful tone but enough of the more clever facts, Visual Aid is capable of entertaining a wide audience.'' --Varoom
''This simple little reference presents ''a lot'' of random facts in less than 200 pages with a cleverness and colourful style that s well worth emulating.'' --Cool Tools [www.kk.org/cooltools]
''Flicking through it I learnt some useful things about hats, poker hands, planets and the relative size of fictional spaceships. It's broad enough for kids but smart enough for adults. Useful as a last-minute present for the design-conscious or the hard to please.'' --I Like [www.ilike.org.uk]
''This simple little reference presents ''a lot'' of random facts in less than 200 pages with a cleverness and colourful style that s well worth emulating.'' --Cool Tools [www.kk.org/cooltools]
''Flicking through it I learnt some useful things about hats, poker hands, planets and the relative size of fictional spaceships. It's broad enough for kids but smart enough for adults. Useful as a last-minute present for the design-conscious or the hard to please.'' --I Like [www.ilike.org.uk]
''This simple little reference presents ''a lot'' of random facts in less than 200 pages with a cleverness and colourful style that s well worth emulating.'' --Cool Tools [www.kk.org/cooltools]
''Flicking through it I learnt some useful things about hats, poker hands, planets and the relative size of fictional spaceships. It's broad enough for kids but smart enough for adults. Useful as a last-minute present for the design-conscious or the hard to please.'' --I Like [www.ilike.org.uk]
''This simple little reference presents ''a lot'' of random facts in less than 200 pages with a cleverness and colourful style that s well worth emulating.'' --Cool Tools [www.kk.org/cooltools]
''Flicking through it I learnt some useful things about hats, poker hands, planets and the relative size of fictional spaceships. It's broad enough for kids but smart enough for adults. Useful as a last-minute present for the design-conscious or the hard to please.'' --I Like [www.ilike.org.uk]
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Visual Aid provides the answers to the little questions in life in a simple colourful and engaging way. Included are: colour wheels, universal flags, star constellations, correct tablesettings, how reflexology works, the Italian wine regions, how to tie a knot, how to use chopsticks, sign language, morse code and many more. This eclectic collection of illustrations and diagrams will get you up to speed on life's basics, without the need for extensive reading or even your utmost attention. A stylised visual reference, with quirky illustrations and informative diagrams that make it easy to follow and understand, in a small, handy format this accessible guide is perfect for anyone with an interest in visual stimuli or a thirst for general knowledge.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great purchase,
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This review is from: Visual Aid: Stuff You've Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning (Paperback)
This is an intriguing little book which is both well made and printed. It is extremely cheap and great value for what you get and I recommend it to all designers as it's a nice little thing to have. From a technical stand point, whilst there is written text, the book uses it sparingly and lives up to its name of "Visual Aid" through strong and powerful visual language.
From a readers perspective, there are enough clever facts in there to appeal to a wide audience and brings some nostalgia for things you have once learned. The illustrations are very clear and helpful and overall a nice addition to have to your book collection
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
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This review is from: Visual Aid: Stuff You've Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning (Paperback)
(I will post the same review for both visual aids, as they are very similar)
Well, I have been surprised in a bad way. In a way, I have been influenced by Amazon to get the two Visual Aids along with Information is Beautiful (which is great, by the way) In this book, the vectors graphics are very poor, the information badly treated. The inforamtions displayed in are pretty basic and do not bring any of the intellectual excitement you can get from a visual dictionary or information is beautiful. I would advice to avoid these two. (As you may have noticed, I'm not a native English speaker, forgive me ^^)
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not what I was expecting.,
By Buyer from Bath "Bath" (Bath, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Visual Aid: Stuff You've Forgotten, Things You Never Thought You Knew and Lessons You Didn't Quite Get Around to Learning (Paperback)
I purchased both books as stocking fillers after my husband thoroughly enjoying Information is Beautiful that he received last year. The books are smaller in size, think pocket sized so that was my first disappointment. Secondly they are just a bit lack lustre, there are diagrams in there that I don't understand why they are featured, there is also no explanations to go with them.For those wanting to buy the man who has everything, get Information is Beautiful, a dip in and out book that my husband passed on to friends he thought it was fascinating. But if you already have that and are waiting for the second version then I suppose these will do as stocking fillers, but nothing else. Don't expect them to be on the same intelligence level.
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