"Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself. Rule: Use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside parts. Word as Image invites you to see letters beyond their utilitarian dullness. It's about discovering the magic behind the unique shapes and infinite possibilities of letters and words. This book showcases nearly 100 of Ji Lee's head-scratching word images, along with tips to help you create your own and share them at www.wordasimage.com."--Page 4 of cover.

Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of philosophy's regard of the image in thinking by considering painting—where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers.

This classic text on storyboarding and visual communication has been updated with information on new media and expanded to incorporate an in-depth study of the use of color in storytelling.

CD-ROM contains the digitized images found in the book.

Art and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across art, literature and the sciences, focusing on engagements with natural forms and forces, and other fields of knowledge across a spectrum of creative media.

This is a portrait of India from the spectacle and colours of the Festival of Elephants to roadside portraits which uncovers the culture of India's vast landscape. The book includes the words of Indian authors including Amit Chaudhuri, Amta Desai, Salman Rushdie, and many others.

A collection of articles that highlight Somalia's artistic and literary heritage.