Tuesday
Jul082008
Visual Thinking
Tuesday 8 July, 2008
Douglas Coupland:
'Here’s another question I was recently asked: when I see words in my mind, what font are they in? The answer: Helvetica. What font do you think in? It’s a strange question, but you know what I’m getting at: how do you see actual words in your head as you think? Or do you see words at all? Is it a voice in your head? Do you see subtitles?'
'Here’s another question I was recently asked: when I see words in my mind, what font are they in? The answer: Helvetica. What font do you think in? It’s a strange question, but you know what I’m getting at: how do you see actual words in your head as you think? Or do you see words at all? Is it a voice in your head? Do you see subtitles?'
Reader Comments (1)
when I was working at the BBC, briefly, as a researcher, I started having headline tickers in my dreams (yknow, the little latest news things that track across the bottom of the screen). and one time a small figure doing sign language in the bottom left hand corner.
but I tend to think in aromas, colours and noises. writing, for me, is the act of transmuting those things into language.