This report focuses on the visual component of verbo-visual literacy, a communications concept involving the production, transmission, and perception of verbal and visual images. Five current problem areas in verbal-visual research are introduced and discussed: (1) communication (communication models, media consumption, new media, the information society, and screen communication); (2) perception, learning, and memory (our senses, listening and looking, and learning and memory); (3) literacy (language, verbal languages, characteristics of verbal languages, visual languages, and current research); and (4) designing visuals for information (content, execution, context, and format). An extensive list of references is included at the end of each section. (CGD)