Backword by Jef Raskin "Inversions" are words that read the same upside down or in a mirror. Or words cleverly hidden inside other words. Each has something to fool the eye, a special visual trick; at the same time the words Kim has chosen to illustrate in this imaginative catalog of challenging visual wordplay reflect the idea of symmetry, both in art and in science. Sixty pages of images portray short and long words, words describing symmetries, variations on Gödel, Escher, Bach and on calligraphic themes, and contemporary, historical, and personal names. They are followed by an illustrated text that explores the skills that go into making inversions: symmetry, vision, and letterforms; processes and examples; and associations with music, wordplay, and art. The book is designed so that the text is also symmetrical - what is said in the lefthand column of a page frequently matches the meaning of what is said in the righthand column. Scott Kim is a PhD. candidate in computer science and graphic design at Stanford University.

Inversions: A catalog of calligraphic cartwheels

Kim, Scott

McGraw-Hill Inc.,US

Backword by Jef Raskin  "Inversions" are words that read the same upside down or in a mirror. Or words cleverly hidden inside other words. Each has something to fool the eye, a special visual trick; at the same time the words Kim has chosen to illustrate in this imaginative catalog of challenging visual wordplay reflect the idea of symmetry, both in art and in science.  Sixty pages of images portray short and long words, words describing symmetries, variations on Gödel, Escher, Bach and on calligraphic themes, and contemporary, historical, and personal names. They are followed by an illustrated text that explores the skills that go into making inversions: symmetry, vision, and letterforms; processes and examples; and associations with music, wordplay, and art. The book is designed so that the text is also symmetrical - what is said in the lefthand column of a page frequently matches the meaning of what is said in the righthand column.  Scott Kim is a PhD. candidate in computer science and graphic design at Stanford University.

Inversions: A Catalog of Calligraphic Cartwheels

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Mit Pr

that-deadman-dance

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Picador Australia

VizAbility? is an extensive course in visual thinking--V using seeing, drawing and imagining skills from everyday life to help students invent and communicate ideas. Both practical and mind-expanding, this integrated handbook and CD-ROM includes many drawing exercises, games, interviews with visual thinkers, and reflections on the nature of thinking. VizAbility encourages cycles of reflection and action, abstract ideas and concrete examples, by alternating between experiences of reading, hands-on computer activities, and off-screen sketching on paper. The book provides a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking while guiding the reader through the interactive experiences of the CD-ROM. By actively learning from this innovative book and CD-ROM, the reader will discover his or her natural visual abilities and learn to think, imagine, and communicate in exciting new ways.

VizAbility (with CD-ROM)

Curtis, Gayle

Woolsey, Kristina Hooper

Programming Languages

Course Technology

The Student Edition of VizAbility consists of a 200-page handbook authored by Apple Distinguished Scientist Kristina Hooper Woolsey, plus a bound-in PC-Windows CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains all six of the modules that won I.D. Magazines 1995 Design Distinction Award and Communication Arts Magazines 1995 Award of Excellence - Environments, Culture, Seeing, Drawing, Diagraming, and Imagining. The Student Edition of VizAbility provides a complete visual literacy course for graphics, design and multimedia students and professionals, stressing creativity, ideation, and the development of basic design skills.

Student Edition of VizAbility for Windows :

Curti, Gayle

Software

Breton Pub Co

Provides a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking by guiding you through the interactive experiences of the Vizability CD ROM. Macintosh Version. Paper. CD ROM included.

Student Edition of VizAbility for Macintosh

Whole body mathematics and movement activities for the K-12 classroom, the studio, and the stage. Enables students to experience symmetry, shape, pattern, combinatorics, aesthetics and storytelling as unifying concepts in both mathematics and dance.

Math Dance with Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern: Whole body math and movement activities for the K-12 classroom

Arts & Photography

Stern, Erik

Schaffer, Karl

Performing Arts

MoveSpeakSpin

Newmedia Magazine Puzzle Workout: A Multi-Dimensional Exercise Program for Your Mind (Newmedia Series)

Random House Information Group

Shows how to use special calligraphy to create words that can be read rightside up and upside down as well as words that show bilateral symmetry

Inversions

Other Media

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Smart, addictive, challenging, fun, and good for the brain―here, in the irresistible 4" x 6" games format, are more than 450 truly satisfying, mind-expanding, full-color puzzles. It’s like salted peanuts for the puzzle aficionado and boot camp for the neophyte who wants to give his or her mind a workout. Created by puzzle master Scott Kim―a contributor to Games and Discover magazines―and adapted from the bestselling Amazing Mind Benders Page-A-Day Calendar, The Little Book of Big Mind Benders is a cornucopia of spatial puzzles, number challenges, wordplay, visual conundrums, and more. The puzzles are categorized by type but distributed throughout the book in a mixed fashion (i.e., a word puzzle next to a number puzzle next to a visual stumper). Readers can move page by page, working different parts of the brain―or easily find their favorite type of puzzle, going from easy to challenging. Test your knack for patterns with Dot Matrix. Put the pieces together in Assemblies. Deduce the secret word in Letter Swap, or untangle the mangled phrases of Lost in Translation. Plus discover cool twists on Sudoku, far-out ambigrams, Wordezoids, mazes, and number crunches. Answers are included in the back of the book.

The Little Book of Big Mind Benders: Over 450 Word Puzzles, Number Stumpers, Riddles, Brainteasers, and Visual Conundrums

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Workman Publishing Company

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