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Dr. Janet Gino is a visual language consultant to companies with disparate target audiences in
culturally diverse communities. She is responsible for planning and implementing a wide range
of programs  dealing with different aspects of visual communications. As a developer and facilitator
of courses for an international audience, Dr. Gino has extensive experience in conducting workshops
in Israel, Africa, India, and Central and South East Asia.
Dr. Gino’s groundbreaking research examines the range of visual literacies different sectors of the
population use when designing information. Her thesis was entitled, “Visual Meaning Making:
Children’s texts from an Intercultural Israeli Neighbourhood” (PDF format). (See the thesis abstract in
Hebrew, PDF format.) Dr. Gino’s work has been published as articles and papers in international
journals, and she is a featured presenter at international conferences. |
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Born in England, Dr. Gino has lived in Israel for more than 30 years. She holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of London and received her
bachelor’s degree in three-dimensional design from Wolverhampton Polytec. Dr. Gino did postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art.
She has been a senior museum educator and involved in multicultural community work for many years.
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Dr. Janet Gino developed Visual Language in the Community  , a visual language project
designed specifically to encourage children, youth, and adults to be active participants in
visual communications by enhancing their abilities to understand, handle, and manipulate
visual information.
The course introduces a common language — the language of visuals — to open a new
channel of communication through which members of culturally diverse communities can
meet each other. Read more about the project, "Through the Eyes."
Her virtual poster, “No One Taught Them the Rules,” shows that children from backgrounds
where the priority is given to non-visual literacies
(e.g., storytelling, memorization through hearing) may be at a disadvantage if they are not
taught the conventions of Western “picture-making.” |
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