ˈvisualizer
[f. visualize v. + -er.]
1. One who visualizes or has the faculty of forming mental images of invisible things, abstract ideas, conditions, etc.
| 1886 Gurney, etc. Phantasms of Living I. 195 Mrs. Bettany is by nature a good visualiser. 1894 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 266 One may be a visualiser when thinking of music. a 1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. 125 For those who are already good visualisers such phenomena as these..present no quite unique experience. |
2. spec. in Advertising, a commercial artist employed to design lay-outs.
| 1921 R. S. Durstine Making Advertisements ii. 23 Several arrangements suggest themselves immediately if the visualizer has a natural or a trained imagination. 1948 [see lay-out 1 b]. 1968 M. Butterworth Walk Softly ii. 30 She worked as a visualiser in an ad agency. 1981 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 5 June 24 (Advt.), Visualisers/finished artists..required by a rapidly-expanding studio. |