Conscious of the fact that knowledge-based societies are generally reliant on the transfer of information through text-based means yet aware of the fact that many other aspects of society are reliant upon the use of graphics, icons and pictograms, the visuaLearning project considered how adult education might benefit from the use of visual learning approaches and tools, in particular when working with learners with low levels of literacy. Partners considered how visual learning might ease the process of learning and directly consulted individual learners in order to better understand the role that pictures play. Adult educators were also actively considered with a visual learning workshop hosted which actively promoted the role that visual imagery can play in the learning process.