Okay, this is great -- a Canadian artist (or an artist in Canada, there's a subtle difference), Margaret Flood, is calling for help to illustrate the dictionary. (You know "The Dictionary" -- not any particular dictionary, just the ideal one.)

What is the Shapetionary? It's a visual index of objects.

It started from looking at the dictionary and wondering why some words are illustrated and others aren’t, then thinking it would be interesting to illustrate the whole dictionary, or all the object nouns...then organize them by shape.

So I extracted all, or most (aprox 9500), of the object nouns, now I am setting out to get them illustrated by as many different people as possible. I am interested in our subjective/collective understandings of objects. So far over 400 people are participating, I estimate that between 1200-1500 drawers are need[ed].

If you're interested in participating, click on the image above to visit Ms. Flood's site.

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