Salvador Dalí illustrates Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations that create meaning?”
— Tom Wujec
One of the first watercolors for the book! Unlocking the Right Brain will features images made with a mix of traditional and digital techniques.
Quite a lovely brain illustration! Even better, the type in the book will be printed letterpress!
— Visual Turn
Source: rightbrainbook
Too often we assume that that the only way to explain complicated concepts in science is to use words. And then we take those words and we add more words, occasionally putting tiny, boring pictures next to them to break up the text into easily digestible chunks.
That’s not very exciting to most people, even me, a professional scientist.
That’s why this feature on the language of smell by Perrin Ireland is so much fun. Perrin is an illustrator who recently has been turning lectures into illustrated lessons. It’s a really fun change of pace from the “normal” way we learn science, and you should check out the whole lesson on smell. If only my textbooks had been like this …
(I am trying to get Perrin to set up a Tumblr, cross your fingers!)
Science … illustrated … I was loving it until I started reading it …
“The olfactory nerve is the only part of the brain that sits outside of the skull.” … I’m not certain that statement is entirely accurate.
Stanford bioengineer Kwabena Boahen called the retina “a piece of the brain that lies inside your eyeball.” http://youtu.be/nyLYQYHGbvI
Maybe Boahen was being figurative, or maybe there is some key difference in neuroanatomy between the cells of the retina and cells of the olfactory epithelium that qualifies one or the other to be described as part of the brain. Any neuroscience tumblrs know?
(via jtotheizzoe)
Source: scientificamerican.com
Your brain, exploded.
This is a remarkable illustration of an exploded view of the interior structures of the human brain. I have seen many side views of the interior of one hemisphere showing these structures packed tightly together deep inside the brain, but this exploded view gave me an entirely new understanding of how these structures are arranged.
These outstanding images are from the lavishly illustrated The Human Brain Book, by Rita Carter, Susan Aldridge, Martyn Page, and Steve Parker, 2009, New York: DK Publishing. Well worth a lengthy browse for the illustrations as well as the detailed information about all aspects of brain function.
Click through for the full-size image.
This fun and highly visual web site takes a humorous look at the American political landscape. The illustrations are by Kevin Kallaugher, political cartoonist for The Economist, and artist-in-residence at the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, home of the project.
“Cartoons are often used in textbooks and school texts to digest the world in a way people can understand and is inviting,” Kallaugher told Wired Campus. The project is aimed at teens, but also plays to an election-weary adult audience.
The educational philosophy of the site is nicely summed up in its Latin motto: Veni. Risi. Percepi.
I came. I laughed. I learned.
