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Resources for Drawing Ideas
A few months back, I started a journey. As a painter, I was confident in my ability to draw. Yet I struggled with rendering diagrams. That journey is documented in my article, How to Make a Concept...
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A Library of Visual Thinking
Over the last two years, I’ve deeply committed to working visually. I’ve sketchnoted talks, used visual stories to innovate, and taught a few hundred people to do the same. Over and over I have found...
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Product as Hero Storyboard
Long time readers know I am completely obsessed with story architecture, and use it in many things: writing (of course), presentations and even product design. I have a version of the story that is...
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A Joy Project
Last spring, a class I was going to teach got cancelled because of a scheduling mixup. I got back six hours a week of teaching time, and I realized that six hours would soon get eaten up by something....
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How to Make a Concept Model
Originally published in Boxes and Arrows May 6th, 2014. I realized recently I never published this here, on my blog. I also realized I’ve never written up the thing that prompted the model I wanted to...
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Alphabets and Logographs
When I first got into Visual Thinking, I came across a core concept that no one agreed on: visual alphabets. Visual Alphabet by Gray, Kleon, Brown Here is the one put together by Austin Kleon, Dave...
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Five Models for Making Sense of Complex Systems
In one of the classes I teach at CCA, students were confused by mental models, conceptual models, concept maps, etc. I ended up drawing a taxonomy for models on the whiteboard, and it may help others....
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Drawing Books
I usually try to write up the books I read each year. This year I apparently read 250, according to goodreads. Hmm. I’m going to make it more palatable by doing it in themed groups. Here are the...
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Pencil Me In
Working with Pictures was so well received, I decided to do a “real” book. Eight months later (a.k.a. wednesday) I sent it to the copy editor and interior designer to give it the old spit and polish....
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A Visual Vocabulary for Concept Models
Part One: Rendering Relationships Sign up to be alerted when Pencil Me In, my book on visual thinking, is available. I’m gone a little crazy for concept models. It started with when I wrote, How to...
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