25th
July
2000
“As we tried to understand the ways in which writing was used to promote active learning in this class, we first turned to Paul’s definitions of visual and graphic thinking in the introduction to his text book Graphic Thinking and then reflected up on their rhetorical overtones. First, the graphic imaging, clustering, and drawing dominating Paul’s course — while neither verbal nor rational (in the same sense writing can be) — are nonetheless understood as cognitive activities. This assumption challenges a centuries-old apartheid between perception and abstract thought.”
posted in Architecture | Permalink |
25th
July
2000
An outline of lecture notes based on a book of the same name. “The homepage for Visual Communication Images with Messages, Second Edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999.”
posted in Graphic design | Permalink |
25th
July
2000
“Why there should be a conflict between the visual and the linguistic, why humans should not without argument combine these two potentialities for maximal strength, is a paradox that has not yet been adequately explained by historians of science and technology…”
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
25th
July
2000
“As we tried to understand the ways in which writing was used to promote active learning in this class, we first turned to Paul’s definitions of visual and graphic thinking in the introduction to his text book Graphic Thinking and then reflected up on their rhetorical overtones. First, the graphic imaging, clustering, and drawing dominating Paul’s course — while neither verbal nor rational (in the same sense writing can be) — are nonetheless understood as cognitive activities. This assumption challenges a centuries-old apartheid between perception and abstract thought.”
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
25th
July
2000
An outline of lecture notes based on a book of the same name. “The homepage for Visual Communication Images with Messages, Second Edition, Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999.”
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
25th
July
2000
“In most humans the left hemisphere is dominant for language and the right hemisphere for visuo-spatial perception. Ignoring one or other of these modes in HCI is to leave a great deal of brain power unused. These observations can be applied to human computer interface design.”
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
25th
July
2000
“In most humans the left hemisphere is dominant for language and the right hemisphere for visuo-spatial perception. Ignoring one or other of these modes in HCI is to leave a great deal of brain power unused. These observations can be applied to human computer interface design.”
posted in Interface design | Permalink |
