Jan Adkins workshop on letterforms introduced us to a fantastic set of calligraphy pens: Copic Markers. They are refillable and affordable. Perfectly made for the human hand to hold super steady and produce large-scale letterforms.
As graphic facilitators and illustrators, the history of lettering is a vast museum there for us to pillage. The front door is unlocked and the rewards are infinite! See examples by Ray Fenwick, Yee-Haw Industries and Paula Scher.
Over the course of two hours, illustrator and educator Jan Adkins walked the group through the history of type from the Babylonians, Romans, Holy Roman Empire and Guttenburg.
Many of us were crippled in Middle School when teachers began to teach that maturity means not drawing any more! At the IFVP 2006 conference, accomplish illustrator Keith Bendis, from Upstate New York, led a session for those fearful of drawing (especially in public!).
Jan Adkins is an illustrator, museum designer, educator and expert in the profession as an artist. He shared his 22 Lessons about illustration, collected over decades as a working artist.
Graphic facilitator, Brandy Agerbeck of Loosetooth.com, presented the basics of Integral
Theory. This theory arises out of the body of work generated by philospher Ken Wilbur.
So when is technology necessary? Where should we invest our money in hardware and how much time should we invest in learning new software? Just as the Amish do, we need to make our own individual decisions on when a tool adds value to our process and when it detracts from the quality of human interaction.
There is a whole lotta learning going on in Lake Tahoe! In one room, we have Newbies who are learning the basics of graphic capture. In the other room we have a group of "experienced" graphic professionals who are having their minds blown by the possibilities of emerging technologies.
Using the free tool HelloDeo.com, David Sibbet and the participants from the IFVP 2006 Tech Session sent a message out to fellow graphic facilitator, Rheinhardt, in Germany.
The IFVPC Multi-Media Workshop is designed to advance your practice and understanding of multi-media communications in order to offer clients the next step beyond paper meeting reports, as well as develop your ownmulti-media marketing materials. This workshop will explore how to leverage our hands-on work with the new media of presentation software,the web, digital photography and tablet PCs. We will begin the session byassessing the needs and desires of the group and then designing thesession around the needs and experience within the group, and will shareour outcomes with the larger group during the conference.