Visual Thinking: for Design by Colin Ware

Visual Thinking: for Design Colin Ware ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0123708966, 9780123708960
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Page: 198

Colin Ware's latest book Visual Thinking for Design has a promising subtitle: active vision, attention, visual queries, gist, visual skills, color, narrative, design. David Gray's workshop at CanUX 2008 in Banff provided the core elements needed to get people drawing so they can visually communicate concepts to others. I know you're thinking; what does this have to do with design? What is interesting to me is the rate at which the topic of visual thinking and the design aspect of it is gathering momentum. Most designers think typography is about fonts. 9 Figuring is Grocott's visual language to stimulate design conversations; it functions as a mediator between her self-reflective design thinking and communication with her peers. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. CanUX: Visual Thinking in Practice. Well, the sides of the brain actually play a significant role in design, as well as in marketing. By Luke Wroblewski November 18, 2008. Robert Bringhurst; Most people think typography is about fonts. In our point-and-click world, especially for our born-digitals, have we moved too far away from the tactile approach to learning? Complexity and time pressures often cause us to skip the thinking stage of a project, and immediately start doing the things we know.