As easy as ‘ABCing’

Colleen Ellis’s “ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently’’ (Mark Batty) is a thoroughly inventive board book for adults. That said, the online version at www.abseeing .com is even better because it adds music and movement. Ellis plays with negative space (not the letter itself but the space around the letter) to illustrate concepts important in the art and design world. The shapes are rotated, resized, and transformed into the visual translation of a word. So the spaces around the letter “q’’ are rearranged on the facing page into what looks the inquisitive eye of a detective, illustrating “quest.’’ Online, the shapes move into place accompanied by the theme music from “The Pink Panther.’’