Sketchnotes from 99% Conference

(via @Ottmark)

Last week at The 99% Conference in NYC on creativity and productivity, Nashville-based media strategist Mark Ott spotted some folks in the crowd producing sketchnotes.

Turns out, he had spotted the talented folks from ImageThink. 

As they describe it...

Sketchnotes use the same real-time skill of listening, synthesizing, and visualizing as graphic recording. The difference is that, with Sketchnotes, this process happens in a sketchbook rather than on a large scale where the audience experiences the process live.  In both cases, the results live on digitally. 

Check out their work from the conference at http://www.blog.imagethink.net/

Arts as Healing

 

PHOTO: Dee Jacobs, Mary Collins, David Binks, Vicki Friedman, Lynn Sanderson

A group of adults meets regularly in a room at the Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) at Washington University Medical Center to learn how to shade with charcoals, master watercolor strokes, and mold and shape clay. These students may be rediscovering art after many years or learning techniques for the first time. But they also share another common bond — battling cancer.

To learn more about the Arts as Healing program and to view additional patient art, visit outlook.wustl.edu/2011/feb/arts.

Do you have a story of how graphic facilitation has helped individuals and communities heal?

Post in the comments below.

Creative Freelancers: Doing your taxes this weekend?

Just in case you’re doing your taxes (due in the US next Friday April 15th), here’s a round up of hints and tips from the Creative Freelancer Conference Blog by Ilise Benun.

The Internal Revenue Service, has produced The Virtual Small Business Tax Workshop (a series of 9 videos) especially for the self employed. Watch them here.

The FreshBooks Blog has several posts this week dedicated to taxes. Here’s one, “Writeoffs for freelancers.”

CFC's resident expert, June Walker, has a very handy table on her site with questions (and answers) in various tax-related categories.

Introduction to Graphic Facilitation Workshop with Crowley & Co.

WHY TAKE THIS WORKHOP?

As a result of participating in this course you will be able to:

  • Get the most out of your meetings
  • Increase participant engagement
  • Organize complex concepts
  • Increase cross-generational communication and understanding
  • Establish a foundation for leading strategic visioning sessions through the use of simple graphic frameworks

People frequently ask if you need to have training as an artist to learn to be a graphic facilitator. The answer is no! The only prerequisites are a sense of curiosity, a willingness to try new things and a strong interest in helping groups to become more creative, efficient and effective.

To learn more or register, visit: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1046188177

EVENT LOCATION

Registration with a "two-night hotel stay" includes check-in on May 15, 2011 and check-out on May 17, 2011 at the Bolger Center.

The Bolger Center's campus style setting creates an inviting atmosphere for both the business and leisure traveler. Located fifteen miles from the White House, the Hotel and Conference Center is close to Reagan National, Dulles International and BWI Airports. The Bolger Center has free wireless access, fabulous fitness facilities, indoor swimming pool, and newly renovated rooms. Visit the Bolger Center Website »

QUESTIONS?

Please call Crowley & Co. at (724) 225-8668 if there is any additional information or support in registering that we can provide.

The Exquisite Corpse of Science

 

How do different people and groups of people view science? What do they know about it? What do they think is important? In this educational project, Tim Jones, communicatescience.com and two colleagues from Imperial College asked three groups of people what they thought was important about science today......and draw it ! Here is the result expressed as four drawings joined using the Surrealists' technique of 'Exquisite Corpse'.

(via Perrin Ireland)

A White Chick who Grew up in Detroit during the Era of Motown Uses GR for Healing in Charm City

From PopTech:

This past fall, Peter Durand’s graphic facilitation expertise was in full effect as he trained PopTech Social Innovation Fellows to more efficiently convey their organizations' missions.  He particularly struck a chord with Community Conferencing Center Founder and 2010 Social Innovation Fellow Lauren Abramson, who could see the potential value of his particular communication style in relation to her work with the Community Conference Center (CCC), a conflict transformation and community justice organization.  So, recently Abramson invited Durand to Baltimore to graphically record her organization’s 20-hour Facilitator Training.  What came out of their meeting was so much more than either could have anticipated. In a conversation between Abramson and Durand with PopTech sticking its nose in occasionally, we got a first-hand account.

READ FULL ARTICLE: http://bit.ly/fyfAKn

Major Sweet Hand: Typographic Inspiration from Carolyn Sewell

Take a look at these hand-drawn postcards by Carolyn Sewell. Colors, letters, lines and curls, I might just beg to be her peep.
via doodlersanonymous.com

As Graphic Recorders and Facilitators we are called to not just write neatly, but to render mind-seizing, heart-grasping images. Sewell brings both together in her illustrative scriberdoodles.

ADCMW House Industries, Sketchnotes

Check out her sketchnotes to see how she employs this style of text-based graphic capture during lectures, presentation, and private journaling sessions.

Julie Stuart und das Ende der Powerpoint-Parade

From the March Newsletter from Making Ideas Visible:

In December, Julie Stuart was featured in a front page, above-the-fold article in the business section of the FAZ, one of three daily papers in Deutschland. The article continued to the back page and had two big pictures of her work in the old school paper version about how graphic facilitation is changing the way we do meetings. 

This link takes you to the German version. Here's a translation of the best part:

It's more that she sees herself as a kind of translator, who listens for keywords and atmospheres /spirit and tries to bring all the information in an hierarchy. "We structure complexity," says Stuart, who studied politics and art and is a member of the "International Forum of Visual Practitioners."