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 a percentage 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.