VizAbility: Learn to Communicate Visually
- ISBN-10
- 0534494560
- ISBN-13
- 9780534494568
- Series
- VizAbility
- Category
- Communication in design
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Course Technology
- Authors
- Kristina Hooper Woolsey, Gayle Curtis, Scott Kim
Description
VizAbility? is an extensive course in visual thinking--V using seeing, drawing and imagining skills from everyday life to help students invent and communicate ideas. Both practical and mind-expanding, this integrated handbook and CD-ROM includes many drawing exercises, games, interviews with visual thinkers, and reflections on the nature of thinking. VizAbility encourages cycles of reflection and action, abstract ideas and concrete examples, by alternating between experiences of reading, hands-on computer activities, and off-screen sketching on paper. The book provides a broad conceptual overview of visual thinking while guiding the reader through the interactive experiences of the CD-ROM. By actively learning from this innovative book and CD-ROM, the reader will discover his or her natural visual abilities and learn to think, imagine, and communicate in exciting new ways.
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