Chalk it up to wanderlust, but when designer extraordinaire Lenny Naar passed along Me No Speak, it made me bust out a world atlas. SF-based travel writer Cheryn Flanagan and IT specialist Benjamin Kolowich independently publish a book series that travelers can use to point to the things they want, need and think when they don’t speak the local language. The concept was born out of a hungry night in a Chinese hotel room with hand-drawings created in lieu of spoken communication, and the rest is, well, picture perfect. The guides are also available as an iPhone app should you Turkey or Thailand-bound.
