2013年1月21日 星期一

News/Google Images Dictionary


Google Images Dictionary by Ben West & Felix Heyes

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London’s known for being a hot bed of creativity and designer artists Ben West and Felix Heyes have proven London to be not only artistic but technology centric as well.
The visual dictionary that these two produced includes an image result from Google for each of the dictionaries words. As an outcome a 1,240 page long dictionary emerges with actual pictures in the real world of what comes up. It is interesting to see how technology continues to intertwine with the real world and education to allow people to learn faster and get more outside perspective on any topic than has ever been available before.
Be sure to check this out for yourself as it is a very interesting idea and must be cool to read through and see what kind of images and examples came up. Leave a comment below with your thoughts on this interesting dictionary.





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