I started with the name. Coming up with it took many months of paying attention to what was happening when I asked people a question and gave them images to spark their answers. I spent a lot of time playing with the Visual Thesaurus. It’s a great brainstorming tool for helping to find the right [...] Click to continue reading »

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Testing the VisualsSpeak Tool was a long process of finding and organizing thousands of photographs. I started by cutting out and laminating thousands of photos from books and magazines. Some were squares and rectangles which I cut on paper cutters, while others were cut from their backgrounds with scissors. Thousands of books and magazines, many [...] Click to continue reading »

So when did VisualsSpeak really start? In hindsight it has been forming for twenty-five years. But the moment that really stands out for me was in graduate school. I was sitting in my professors office at graduate school trying to get her to explain to me why the grade on my paper was lower than [...] Click to continue reading »

I had two amazing art teachers in high school. Marjorie Keary, who believed I could be an artist long before I thought I could, and Robert Enos. Mr Enos told me that if I wanted to be an artist, I should start saving pictures as references. Probably a simple suggestion made in passing, but one [...] Click to continue reading »