Seasoned coach and graphic facilitator, Christina Merkley is announcing the launch of her new graphic coaching company: SHIFT-IT Coach, Inc.
One of the emerging issues with traditional graphic facilitation is this: How best do we integrate the ideas generated in collaborative sessions into a dynamic, visual and usable format? Digg Labs has created a mash-up between Digg posts (user-generated comments on news and blog posts) and a swarm-like, dynamically-generated network diagram.
ZeusDraw is a new drawing program from Chromatic Bytes with a fluid, graceful interface. It has a different, more intuitive approach to paths (Bezier curves) and great brushes.
After 50 years of drawing and publishing a half-dozen political cartoons a week, 52 weeks a year, through 11 presidential administrations, well, that will get you some enemies. Paul Conrad, long-time staff cartoonist for the LA Times should know.
Inspired by his hero of the political comic, Walt Kelly author of Pogo, Jules Feiffer had the drive, but not the penmanship. He developed a loose style, mostly "out of ignorance" according to the artist. But that loose style and open white space has captured a specific atmosphere of malaise mixed with merriment that makes his work so unique. This interview from Studio 360 gives insight to his decision to give up lambasting the political and cultural landscape in America.
Congrats to graphic facilitator, Stephanie Crowley, based in Dallas, who completed the New York marathon with a time of 5:38:22.
SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week.
One of the big hits from the IFVP 2006 Conference was the Tech Session. There was quite a buzz about the Photoshop demonstration on "cleaning" photos of graphic recording artwork.
Heller and Ilic's book, Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, is a collection of exemplary work in the world of graphic design in which the "handwritten" has been implemented in the artists' works.
Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio Inc. presented a list of free (and almost free) tools for managing the business of the business of being a scribe.
The main messages:
1. Success is dependent upon proving value to your client and their stakeholders.
2. Mastering technology is a key differentiator.
3. As small businesses, we need to improve the level of service and increase the efficiency of our back office processes.
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