Today I relished Unflattening by —a dissertation-as-comic on the power of graphic communication to delinearize multifaceted topics, convey nuance, balance the analytical.
It's a great instance of self-exemplifying media: using comics to present complex ideas on comics.
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What are some other great instances of self-exemplifying media?
Understanding Comics by also uses comics to explicate comics
Gödel, Escher Bach presents an exploration of twisting, self-referential representations in twisting, self-referential prose.
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Meaningness.com (by ) uses a fuzzy, non-hierarchical hypertext structure to present arguments about the essential fluidity of everything.
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describes how to present information clearly and efficiently in books whose pages have themselves been meticulously designed to exemplify those practices.
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee, which is about how the geology across the 40th parallel of the United States was formed. A literal cross section of America, structured in a way that shows the author cutting across America for 20 years to learn geology.
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Draft No. 4 describes how McPhee structures his research and writing and it is my absolute favorite book on writing.
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I'm not sure of this but songs? To my knowledge, Carnatic music (a category of Indian Classical music) has lots of examples for self-referential representation.
Several compositions exalt and explore the beauty of the art form.
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by is a pixel art game that teaches you how to do pixel art (and art in general).
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Sketchnotes by !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think Laura means my book The Sketchnote Handbook that’s formatted like a book length sketchnote -
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