Hodler: A big part of the book is about visual literacy and visual language and visual perception. Everyone seems to agree that visual literacy is becoming more important in our culture, yet why is it that we don’t seem to study it much or talk about it as much as you might expect, given the widespread agreement about its significance?
Sousanis: I think we have a hard time thinking through images. I think we have a hard time thinking about how to think through images. We know how to illustrate what we say—comics artists and artists in general do amazing things with ideas—but when we think about visual ideas in terms of education, there’s a stumbling block.
Tim Hodler interviews Nick Sousanis over at the Paris Review
via TCJ