Visual Learning

As well as looking into visual memory for my professional project I have realised that a big part of it is going to be looking at visual learning.

Personally, I find I take in information better if there is a distinctive accompanying visual or even if the type is presented in an interesting way. I used to love illustrated encyclopaedias and visual dictionaries when I was young and can still recall the imagery in some of them and information alongside, like the illustration of the mountaineer holding up a cup and looking disappointed after the water to make his cup of tea boiled at 30 degrees because of the pressure at high-altitude.

Even though this is a pretty obscure piece of information which I will most likely never get a chance to use, I remembered it because of the weird expression on the guys face.

This is what I want to achieve in my visuals and I will therefore pay particular attention to the theory behind visual learning as well as memory and will study children's illustrated learning books heavily to find out what techniques they use that I can apply to my own project.