Book description
Writing can be a challenge, especially for artists and designers
who tend to be more visual than verbal. Writing for Visual
Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers is designed to help
people who think in pictures—a segment of learners that by
some estimates includes almost 30 percent of the
population—gain skills and confidence in their writing
abilities.
Writing for Visual Thinkers approaches the craft of writing
from many directions, all with the ultimate goal of unblocking the
reader's verbal potential. It offers a guide to mind mapping,
concept mapping, freewriting, brainwriting, word lists and
outlines, as well as provides student examples, tips on writing
grant proposals, reasons for keeping a blog and more. Critique
methods, criticism, narrative and storytelling, hypertext, editing,
graphic novels and comics, and many more topics round out this
groundbreaking book. Both experimental and pragmatic, Andrea
Marks's methods will result in stronger, more verbally confident
artists and designers.
This book comes with eBook and ePub versions included on a CD
bundled into the back of the book. The electronic versions take
full advantage of rich media and include a wealth of imaes and
links to articles, books, websites, blogs, wikis, video, and audio
podcasts. Marks offers a feast for the eyes--from Leonardo da
Vinci's sketchbooks to video of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
scroll--adding depth and dimension to the written word and
encouraging readers to explore their thoughts and ideas in text.
The print book also contains handy workbook and sketchbook
pages.
Developed in partnership with AIGA, this book is for the visual
learners everywhere who have always wanted--or needed!--to improve
their writing skills, whether they specialize in graphic design,
web design, industrial design, interior design, allied design, or
fashion design.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- User Guide
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. The Writer’s Toolbox
- 2. Thinking in Words and Pictures
- 3. Verbal and Visual Connections
- 4. Narrative Structures: Verbal and Visual Working Together
- 5. Writing and Editing in the 21st Century
- 6. Writing in Practice
- Student examples
- Podcasts
- Examples
- Notes
- Resources
- Bibliography
- Image credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Media
Product information
- Title: Writing for Visual Thinkers: A Guide for Artists and Designers, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2011
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321767455
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