New Media: The Visual Dictionary

The Visual Dictionary is an awesome new media (Web) project on a mission to build an online photo-image catalog of English words. The images are of words that appear in what geographers like to call the "cultural landscape" -- signage, street art and graffiti, and advertising. It's sort of like a Flickr "cluster" of photos of words (if such a cluster exists). The Visual Dictionary is a fascinating idea and leads one to re-think how one perceives language in the everyday environment, as well as re-rhink how one assembles vocabularies and meaning from imagery. The project is only a month old, but growing fast, and the public can sign up to contribute images to the project. (That means you -- and us -- can participate.) There's also a Visual Dictionary Blog chronicling this new media adventure.

Posted by Supercore at February 28, 2006 11:57 PM