VISUAL FLUENCY | Owen Brock

Experiences in the visual arts, music, and spiritual development, along with nearly twenty years with the Cincinnati firm of Zender + Associates, all set against a backdrop of extensive worldwide travel, have combined to give me a keen intuition about different people and their cultures—which leads to some fairly unpredictable design solutions.

Now, through Visual Fluency, I serve a wide array of creative, corporate and non-profit clients with an intelligent blend of design, photography and PhotoFusion.

I am fully convinced that an appropriate balance between sensory attraction and intellectual content (reward) is critical to that essential quality I call Visual Fluency. To produce design that encourages investigation, and then rewards it with stimulating ideas—that is Language for the Imagination.

In my work with Visual Fluency, I collaborate with a diverse, talented, experienced team of creatives. Together, we would be honored to help resolve your organization’s design/communication needs. I appreciate your interest, and look forward to hearing from you.

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My own creativity is fueled by a rich marriage of more than thirty years, a fabulous family, a strong and supportive circle of close friends, a long and intentional relationship with my own Creator, and a deep desire to help make this world a more beautiful place.

During my childhood years, our family rented a house on the ocean. Every summer my brother and I moved our bunk beds outside onto the porch, and often awakened to a host of foreign ships which had traveled from the four corners of the world. Now, long since grown, I have been fortunate to journey to many of the far-flung corners of the earth and I have found one thing to be ubiquitous—poverty.

In 2001 a simple 150 km journey became a seven-hour overland ordeal, as my companions and I traveled through the dangerous province of Bihar in northern India. The adventure was complete with monsoon rains, washed out roads, and dangerous, menacing mobs. In a blur that my mind’s lens captured forever, I saw a little child crouching by the side of the road, naked under monsoon rains, defecating under the spell of dysentery.

Due to circumstances such as this. Visual Fluency donates ten percent of all profits to those serving the poorest of the poor. I have met some of these folks in India, Africa and Central America, where they are rescuing children forced into prostitution, caring for HIV/AIDS affected and infected children, and combating hunger on a daily basis.

If you are interested, I will be glad to tell you more.