Johnson Banks has come up with a novel way of learning Chinese characters which he calls Mandigrams
The Basic Idea is to draw the Character within what it is morphing it slightly like so.
He has a whole bunch of examples in the post see if you can guess what these mean?
I love the drawing style and I think these could be used as a learning tool for Chinese characters and Japanese Kanji, except I think it might be quite difficult to do for some of the more abstract characters.
One of my favourite things he’s done is the clock face below with all the numbers in both Chinese and Arabic numerals. I’d considder paying money for a clock that had this face, it’s just looks really cool.