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I'm going to lead a couple of mini-workshops on visual notetaking at RefreshPhilly tonight. These notes are my preparation for tonight. The first thing I'm going to do is give a little drawing instruction, using Ed Emberly as inspiration.
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This image is image 26 of the 100 Days Envizualized, a project where I upload my visual notes that I create on 100 consecutive days. To check out the other notes, go here
An eBook will be available of all 100 days worth of notes, with annotation, once the 100 days are over.
Visual thinking can be used to clarify or to confuse. The House Republicans created a visual representation of the House Democrats health plan. The graphic is a crazy jumble of boxes, arrows, and lines.
I don't know if the proposed plan is too complicated or not, but I do know that it's easy to make even something simple seem insanely complicated. To illustrate that, I made this graphic above, which diagrams the org chart of my family's food buying plan. My family consists of my wife and I, so it's about as simple as it gets.
So, how do you make something simple seem complicated using visual thinking?
1. As Leonardo Da Vinci Said "Everything connects to everything else." So connect as many things as possible whether they are important or not! That's what I tried to do in the chart above, and it's obviously what the House Republicans did.
2. Separate related items spatially as much as possible so that the lines connecting
closely related things are long, convoluted, and need to cross lots of other lines.
3. Use lots of ugly, clashing colors. OK, I did not have time to do this one, but the House Republicans sure did.
Thanks to Parkview for sending me the link to the House Republican graphic.
And here is yet another graphic inspired by the House Republicans.
One of the reasons infographics work to communicate ideas quickly is connected to the way we physically process images. Our brains consume data from pictures all at once but process text in a linear manner.
Sketchnotes for Deandra Little and Chad Berry's talk on teaching with visuals across the curriculum at Carleton College's Visual Learning conference on September 29, 2012.
Sketchnotes for Scott McCloud's keynote at Carleton College's Visual Learning conference on September 28, 2012.
I am delighted to be the official Visual Notes Artist at the upcoming 140 Characters Conference in NYC. The conference will explore the disruptive nature of twitter on fields as diverse as sports, publishing, music, and business.
Jeff Pulver is the producer of the conference which is billed as "The Davos of Twitter" and will feature uber-big-time twitterati along with mere mortals like myself.
The folks featured on this image are just a few of the confirmed attendees.
If you are interested in exploring the new age of connectivity ushered in by twitter, come join the cast of characters this june.
You can learn more and register at the 140 Characters site.
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This image is installment 30 of 100 Days Envizualized, a project where I upload my visual notes that I create on 100 consecutive days. To check out the other notes, go here
I will make an eBook available of all 100 days worth of notes, with annotation, once the 100 days are over.
She only put one L on the pre test. now when quizzing, I ask her "how many nostrils does the doggie have?" this interference helps her remember the two L's.
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My daughter has been getting horrible grades in spelling until I started doing this. I create these crazy flash cards in photoshop, and then use them as the screen saver on our computer.
I get the spelling words in advance, and open photoshop, and just start google- image searching. I look for on topic pics, but also I keep the letters in mind that she cannot remember. I look for images that recall or could recall those letters' shapes, as well as reinforce the meaning of the word- a mountain replaces the letter 'a' in peak for example.
another strategy is that I interfere with the letter that she cannot recall- this week I have someone "stealing" the letter 'a' from the word steal, another week a baby bit off the corner of the letter 'w' from frown.
The best spellers are visual. She is visual. I am trying to cement these connections in her head.
This image is from day 33 of 100 Days Envizualized, a project where I upload my visual notes that I create on 100 consecutive days. To check out the other notes, go here
I'll be making an eBook will available of all 100 days worth of notes, with annotation, once the 100 days are over at envizualize.com/blog
Seamus Liam O’Brien created a guest blog post for ImageThink this week. In this cartoon, he exemplifies one of the exercises in Dr. Betty Edward's book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.
This drawing was dictated to me by my niece and nephew who asked me to draw various stuff yesterday. "Draw a dog!" "A pig!" "A helicopter!" Good fun.
These drawings were influenced by Ed Emberley's techniques in his terrific drawing book "Make a World."
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This image is part of 100 Days Envizualized, a project where I upload my visual notes that I create on 100 consecutive days. To check out the other notes, go here
I'll be making an eBook will available of all 100 days worth of notes, with annotation, once the 100 days are over at envizualize.com/blog
Students are conducting a hands-on science experiment in a classroom, using lemons and oranges to explore concepts in a practical way. The atmosphere is lively and engaging.
Visual notes from chapter 8 in Todd Henry's book, The Accidental Creative: How to be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice.
This image is like graphic chitchat, the random things we may discuss if meeting in person before diving into business.
Yep, that's me in the middle holding the giant pencil:)
I use that giant pencil (or marker) to make all that murky gray stuff on the left clear and colorful for you so you can get it, grab it, and go for it...and help others do the same.
Doodling helps you think better because it activates more of your brain and improves focus and concentration.
How does a very visual person write an academic paper? Visually, of course! This was the first page of a book review created as part of my master's program. While it has yet to appear in any scholarly journals, it has been published in something way more fun - The Sketchnote Workbook, by Mike Rohde.
onesquigglyline.com/onesquigglylineblog/2014/11/26/sketch...
En Stgo Makerspace www.stgomakerspace.com
Foto: Fernando Senior, www.fernandosenior.com/photo/people.html
En Stgo Makerspace www.stgomakerspace.com
Foto: Fernando Senior, www.fernandosenior.com/photo/people.html
Problems are really just squiggly lines that show up when we're expecting straight ones. Find the straight lines to find your next steps.
One Squiggly Line is a visual thinking business that uses pictures to make things simple so people can understand, decide, and move to action more quickly.
Just added the Freebies! page...check it out!
Each file features super simple ways anyone can be more visual. Print them out or download and save for later. No fancy drawing skills or supplies required!
At a workshop by Patricia Molla / En el taller de Patricia Molla, facilitaciongrafica.blogspot.com
Photo by Patricia
I copied these diagrams from an advanced Physics book. My friend was reading it during a camping trip we took on Chesepeake Bay. He told me that the diagrams are a much easier way of working out complex equations than actually grinding through the calculations. Don't ask me exactly how it works.
They are strangely attractive though, aren't they?
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This image is image 24 of the 100 Days Envizualized, a project where I upload my visual notes that I create on 100 consecutive days. To check out the other notes, go here
An eBook will be available of all 100 days worth of notes, with annotation, once the 100 days are over.
Representing something visually causes you to think about things more holistically and completely. This image represents 45 minutes of drawing common words and concepts.
En Stgo Makerspace www.stgomakerspace.com
Foto: Fernando Senior, www.fernandosenior.com/photo/people.html
This image is from day 37 of 100 Days Envizualized, a project where I upload my visual notes that I create on 100 consecutive days. To check out the other notes, go here
I'll be making an eBook will available of all 100 days worth of notes, with annotation, once the 100 days are over at envizualize.com/blog
This image can be used to flesh out the metaphor of a city. How is the traffic flow in your current situation?
Two of four visuals created for the Neolé website. Neolé is a strategy and innovation consulting business in Canada.
Creative insights and actions, as well as practical goals and plans, all begin with a dream. Visualize it richly and colorfully!
Visuals to help flesh out the house and castle metaphors. You just have to ask the right questions: What are we afraid of in the basement? Who is our knight in shining armor?
From ideation to evaluation to solution. When the thinking and decision process is made visual, even those not present for the discussion understand how decisions were made.
This is a synthesis image of some feedback I was given on my visual thinking work a while ago. The same format can be used for any number of topics or situations.
This image shows the process from ideation, to evaluation, and finally to the decision. Visual documentation of the thinking and decision process allows everyone to understand how decisions were made, even if they were not present for the discussion.