They say that a picture speaks a thousand words, so for the number of
pictures that appear in this unique dictionary that we are going to
talk about, it will definitely have more than its fair share of words.
After all, London designers Ben West and Felix Heyes have come up with
this idea of doing things differently, where a standard dictionary will
show an image that appears whenever you Google a particular word. This
tome weighs in at a hefty 1,240 pages, and each word is represented by
an image that has been printed out in order. Of course, to achieve this
manually is going to be a real challenge, which is why there is this
thing known as scripts, where running them will allow the search engine
to search for a word automatically, download the first image associated
with said word, and position it in the book’s layout, resulting in the
hardcover edition that you see above.
Obviously, this sounds like a novel idea until you run into the
brick, insurmountable brick wall known as copyright implications. Both
Ben and Felix did not bother to ask the image owners or Google for
permission, so chances are pretty high that you will not see this visual
dictionary being widely circulated as it will more or less be confined
to a limited release.
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