This three and a half minute movie by Xplane takes viewers through the process starting in 2000 and ending in current day financial crisis, detailing the role that home buyers, mortgage lenders, banks, financial institutions and ultimately asset backed securities played. The production was created by XPLANE’s renowned information design team using Cintiq technology by Wacom to allow for live and still animation, and voiceover.
From Steve Davis: How do we cope with the temptation to consume ourselves into oblivion? Our proposal is simple. We suggest two things. First, that you begin replacing the habit of "accumulating" with the practice of "assimilating." And second, that you make sure what you ingest in any form is of the highest quality possible.
“Art has been saying with more and more intensity: the nature of the painting has become less interesting than the nature of the relation of painting to society.” - Norman Mailer, The Faith of Graffiti As graphic facilitators, we cannot underestimate the power of an image--created in a specific cultural or political context--to contribute to fundamental change. In the photo to the right, a Palestinian woman and her children walk past a drawing by notorious British culture jammer and graffiti artist Banksy, along part of the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank city of Aram. Reuters has a slideshow of art created on the tall, concrete security wall seperating Palestinians and Isrealis in the West Bank. In 1984, I visited divided Berlin along with 15 students from my US High School. We were taken to The Wall with its machine gun towers, armored...
Tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities: Publishing content to multiple Web locations; Combining different media into a single blog post or article; Transforming documents on-the-fly; Managing repeatable upload actions.The above workflow allows me to take a photo with my mobile device and email the result to Tarpipes, which then publishes the photo, title and tags on Flickr, Evernote, del.icio.us and Twitter... simultaneously!
This cool Flash-enabled tool allows you to selct a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value.
Is Facilitation Necessary? How can we grow our trust in the organic intelligence of life? Master Facilitator Journal explores these questions.
The Good Sheet, a large fold-out information graphic which hits Starbucks counters each week, will tackle one election topic, like carbon emissions, health care, immigration or education. Starbucks hopes it will get people talking.
The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know.
What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas.
This Fall 2008 Deidre Crowley will offer two courses in Graphic Facilitation with focuses on using visual language in recording facilitated events. Workshop 1: DATES: October 30- 31 (Thursday and Friday) TIMES: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm FEE: \ $1125 (includes all supplies, coffee/tea and lunch both days) LOCATION: Capitol Holiday Inn (Saturn/Venus) 550 C Street SW Washington, DC 20024 DIRECTIONS: www.hicapitoldc.com/location_and_directions ORGANIZERS: Crowley & Co. and Maga Design MORE INFO: Julie@magadesign.com or mail to: Attn: Julie Bucy Maga Design, 2439 18th St, NW, Washington, DC, 20009 Please e-mail info@crowleyandco.us for additional information regarding specific goals and outcomes for the workshop. Workshop 2 From MAFN: In September, MAFN opens registration for the first Facilitation University course in GRAPHIC FACILITATION (GF). DATES & LOCATION: The course begins on November 14th at the GAO Headquarters in Washington DC with ongoing sessions held, generally, on a monthly...