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Promoting Visual Thinking

Wendy Richmond discusses how visual thinking gets left behind in America as we focus on structured verbal communication.

As a society, we don’t spend much time nurturing our visual thinking. Watching TV doesn’t count. It’s impossible to be fluent in a language or a way of thinking if you don’t practice it. You can’t understand something unless you are involved with it, rather than just being a silent audience.

Reminds me that I still haven’t visited Mood River, the new contemporary art and design exhibition at the Wexner Center. Have you nurtured your visual thinking recently? (via xBlog)

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