PopTechArt

One opera house, 3 days, 500 participants, hundreds of "dangerous" ideas... this was Pop!Tech X. Graphic facilitator Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio Inc. managed to crank out 36 paintings totalling 43,200 square inches of art to give form to the ideas propogated by the superstar speakers.

Idiagram Visual Models

Marshall Clemens is simply complex. Based in Lincoln, Massachusetts, he is the creative talent behind Idiagram. His visual models are superbly elegant and as well-pressed as a white Oxford shirt.

Pain, Rejection and the Agony of Drew

Drew Dernavich, a very active graphic facilitator in Boston describes the experience for an article in the Boston Globe celebrating the forth coming book of rejected cartoons, titled "The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker" (Simon Spotlight Entertainment).

The Game of Memory

From Washington University in St. Louis, this study (and the entire topic of imagery + memory) is essential for graphic facilitators. As a practitioner in the visual learning arena, it is important to remember that each individual cobbles together their own strategy for collecting, internalizing and applying new information.

Presidential Doodles

Presidential Doodles, just released by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, collects the random sketches and drawings of Hoover and most of his fellow commanders in chief, from Hoover's elaborate shapes and swirls to the isolated squiggles of Abraham Lincoln.

Permanent Innovation by Langdon Morris

Permanent Innovation by Langdon Morris is the process of doing it continuously, by developing an organizational culture that embraces innovation as a core value, practices innovation as a core methodology, and produces innovation as a consistent output.

Synesthesia

Do you see music? Can you hear letters? Do numbers or days of the month have personalities? Then you may benefit from the magical powers of Synesthesia, a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled.