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Todays notes come from an online workshop from VizthinkU on visual notetaking, featuring Austin Kleon, Mike Rohde, and Sunni Brown.
1. Pavement, 2. Wheel, 3. Snow, 4. Door, 5. Telephone pole, 6. Inscription, 7. Parking reserved, 8. Wall, 9. Lock, 10. Metal, 11. Door, 12. Wall, 13. Corner, 14. Pavement, 15. Fence, 16. Corner
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
At the end of my "Beyond the Five-Page Paper" workshop at the University of Iowa, I asked the facuty participants to brainstorm ways they might use visual assignments in their classes--and to do so visually.
and learning how to say crab in italian
drawn at a random chinese restaurant with silvia, holly, emma doris and I? was doris there?
from the moleskine I took to europe sept 06
Sketchnotes of Janus Boye's talk at KM Singapore 2012, Sharing is Caring: a new intranet perspective
The brain loves patterns! Drawing simple patterns actually helps you become a better visual thinker and pattern finder, even when things are more abstract. And it helps you to more quickly find the simple patterns in more complex ones.
Try this:
Duplicate a black and white pattern design four times. Choose four colors, plus tints or shades if needed. Color the background the same on all four images. Then use the other three colors to color the main parts of the design, making each of the four copies different. Then put them all together and see how your original simple pattern suddenly becomes much more complex.
I did this one in Photoshop and flipped some of them horizontally to make things even more complicated, yet the original design is still quite simple.
See this previous blog post to see how to make this pattern and this for an exercise with color.
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Ideas can be abstract or invisible and that makes them harder to work with. Visuals help make them concrete and (obviously!) visible. Then they're much easier to work with and evaluate.
Try this easy exercise:
Take a black and white design you drew a while ago.* Imagine the entire image fully colored in at least 4 different colors. Try to see the entire image with as much detail and as vividly as possible. Take your time and wait to get a really clear picture in your head before moving on. Then, color the image in as you pictured it. Odds are, you'll probably change your plan a bit as you go along. When things become visible and tangible, it becomes much clearer what works and what doesn't.
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