visual literacy
Reading pictures skillfully
Visual literacy is the ability to interpret, understand, and create meaning from images.
It includes reading photographs, charts, films, advertisements, and other visual media with the same critical attention given to written text.
A visually literate person recognizes how composition, color, and context shape meaning: The course taught visual literacy alongside traditional reading skills.
- infographicsVisual representations of information
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- graphic novelsBook-length illustrated stories
- photographyCreating images from light
- decodingExtracting meaning from symbols
graphic design · critical thinking · iconography · semiotics · contrast · representation · color theory · aesthetics · symbolism · spatial awareness · picture books · composition · storytelling · perspective · art education · pedagogy · screen time · typography