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A Visual, Experiential Walk in the Park

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:10:41 -0400

A Visual, Experiential Walk in the Park:

V + E = DIT

(Visuals + Experiential = Divergent Inspirational Thinking)

Visuals for Change’s own Amanda Lyons will lead VizThink NYC’s next event, an excursion in…

InfoViz week in Rennes, France, soon a report

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:51:28 -0400

InfoViz week in Rennes, France, soon a report: There was a lot of brainwork this week in Rennes France bringing together web developpers, web designers, graphic designers, telecom engineers, political sciences students, etc to work on…

VizThink NYC Summer Social

Wed, 25 May 2011 08:27:17 -0400

VizThink NYC Summer Social:

VizThink NYC Summer Social

Come out and get to know the community of New York area visual thinkers for an evening of socializing as we gear up for another great summer in the city.

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Creative Thinking: Aquanotes

Wed, 11 May 2011 23:21:10 -0400

Creative Thinking: Aquanotes: Hello VizThinkers, check out this interesting post by writer and speaker Scott Berkun:

When you are known as a writer on creativity, people send you things. Recently I was forwarded…

Sketchnotes from Healthcare Experience Design Conference

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:29:10 -0400

Sketchnotes from Healthcare Experience Design Conference: The first annual Healthcare Experience Design Conference took place in Boston, Massachusetts on Monday, April 11th, 2011. What a day! The conference mission is “improving health through…

VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:36:21 -0400

VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication:

For VizThink NYC’s third workshop of 2011 BigBlueGumball took the crowd on a fun and engaging trip into the world of visual communication. Steve and Todd Cherches (also known as Todd and Steve…

The Sketchbook Project: A Visual Concert Tour

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:45:48 -0500

The Sketchbook Project: A Visual Concert Tour: When a person grabs a bound book of blank pages and begins to fill them, the resulting visual journals display fascinating stories, both deeply personal and oddly fulfilling. The unique…

VizThink NYC: Drawing for Thinkers

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:30:02 -0500

VizThink NYC: Drawing for Thinkers:

No, the picture on the right is not from some ritualistic cult ceremony or a crazy torture experiment…it is from the February 2011 VizThink NYC event entitled “Drawing for Thinkers…

Lynda Barry’s Cure for Fear of Drawing

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:57:27 -0500

Lynda Barry’s Cure for Fear of Drawing:

Lynda Barry’s new book Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book takes her invention,the graphic memoir, into uncharted territory. She brings back Marlys and Arna, characters from her…

Infographic as Advertisement?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:08:01 -0500

Infographic as Advertisement?:

I had a chance to sit down for a brief conversation with Barry A. Martin, Principal at Toronto marketing communications firm, Hypenotic. One of Hypenotic’s long time clients is Fiesta Farms,…

Daniel Weil: Drawing the Process

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:57:41 -0500

Daniel Weil: Drawing the Process:

Like many designers, Pentagram’s Daniel Weil uses sketching to visualize, generate and refine his ideas. Weil has, by his estimation, more than 375 sketchbooks, going all the way back to…

Digging Deeper into Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate”

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:52:09 -0500

Digging Deeper into Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate”:

VizThink recently came across a thoughtful book review pointing out “five less-talked-about gems” in presentation master Nancy Duarte‘s latest book Resonate. The review was…

Interactive Scale of the Universe

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:43:18 -0500

Interactive Scale of the Universe: On the order of Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten, here’s an interactive graphic that helps one visually comprehend relationships of scale. Move the giant slider to zoom in and…

SketchCamp: San Francisco May 28, 2011

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:40:21 -0500

SketchCamp: San Francisco May 28, 2011:

SketchCamp is a conference that is bringing together the most forward-thinking UX practitioners from North America for an intense one-day San Francisco session focused on sketching for…

Daily Drawing: Every Person in New York

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:12:00 -0500

Daily Drawing: Every Person in New York:

Jason Polan started Every Person in New York in March of 2008. He draws very quickly, in two minutes or less, in all sorts of public locations and tries not to be noticed. He plans on working on…

austinkleon: Is there a Pictorial...

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:36:19 -0500

austinkleon:

Is there a Pictorial Grammar?

theparisreview:

Whether they’re architectural renderings, Venn diagrams, or even the inkless images created by gestures, pictures can all be thought of as 2-D encodings of our 3-D world. We decipher these images so easily that we never even suspect we’re cracking a code of sorts; we recognize that a certain brushstroke represents an eyebrow, or certain lines forming a Y denote the corner of a cube. But what if someone could write out a codebook (so to speak) precise enough that even a machine, by consulting it, could draw and interpret drawings? Over the past few decades, philosophers, psychologists, and computer scientists have taken on this task, and found it less straightforward than one might think.

Collection of Free Symbols: The Noun Project

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:16:49 -0500

Collection of Free Symbols: The Noun Project: If it’s not already on your radar, you’ll want to know about this fantastic digital clearinghouse amassing free symbols for the masses: The Noun Project

Started by California creative…

[Simple Tools] Business Origami

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:12:53 -0500

[Simple Tools] Business Origami:

VizThink was recently speaking with Jess McMullin, President at the Centre for Citizen Experience in Edmonton, Canada, about how he uses visual tools and techniques in his innovation work. “I’m…

The Concise: Visual Thinking & Entrepreneurship

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:40:33 -0400

The Concise: Visual Thinking & Entrepreneurship:

When invited to write something about our latest business venture in the context of visual thinking and entrepreneurship, this got me analyzing exactly how we had arrived where we now are and where…

Nadine Pauw

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:40:33 -0400

Nadine Pauw:

Nadine was born & educated in the UK, forming her first business at the age of 22. She is an award winning online learning consultant. Her clients have included Walt Disney, Sony, Coca…