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IMAGINE: How Creativity Works by Flash Rosenberg

(via The Huffington Post)

https://vimeo.com/38798735

Flash Rosenberg imagines how the ideas in the book IMAGINE: How Creativity Works are tackled, tickled and teased-out by the author Jonah Lehrer.

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intro2gr workshop : June 23 & 24 in San Francisco

Summer Session of intro2gr

Saturday and Sunday, June 23 & 24, 2012

Downtown San Francisco 

Taught by Lynn Carruthers and Emily Shepard

$775.00 ~ Includes all supplies, lunch, snacks and free, secure parking

This workshop is great for teachers, consultants, coaches, trainers or people who have been itching to jump up and grab a marker! It is designed for eople who work with groups and want to break free of flipcharts, for people who want to learn to think more visually and for people who have never attempted graphic recording before.

For more information and to register, please visit our website: www.intro2gr.com

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The Guardian interviews ImageThink about Graphic Facilitation

Via ImageThink (@ImageThink) Read the article by Killian Fox from SXSW. fb.me/1ISqEJLiw

Several things have contributed to their success. One, according to Herting, is the rise of information visualisation across the media and in business, born out of a fatigue of PowerPoint and the need to communicate clearly and succinctly in a time-starved digital world. Another is a current vogue for hand-drawn visuals, particularly in advertising. "There's a great strength in having a human connection – a hand-drawn image – when everything is so digital," says Willems. "It's a nice contrast."
Without digital cameras and internet connections, of course, ImageThink wouldn't have nearly the same exposure. But at SXSWi, the largest technology festival in the US, where everyone is looking for the next high-tech solution, it's good to know that a lone person drawing on a white surface with a set of coloured marker pens can still hold a crowd in thrall.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/25/image-think-technology-idea-...

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The Guardian interviews ImageThink about Graphic Facilitation

Via ImageThink (@ImageThink) Read the article by Killian Fox from SXSW. fb.me/1ISqEJLiw

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The Revolution Will Be Visualized

Kelly Kingman, writer-designer-consultant, writes a nice, concise advice for how and why to investigate visual learning. Kingman notes that she is indebted to Sunni Brown, Austin Kleon and Dave Gray "whose panel at SXSW 2010 made all the lightbulbs come on".

More: http://kellykingmanmedia.com/the-revolution-will-be-visualized/

(via Jan Richards)

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Robert Fabricant's PopTech Doodles

Check out the wonderfully compact hybrid storyboard-slash-sketchnote style that frog design creative director, Robert Fabricant, uses to capture big ideas and pithy concepts on the fly.

Robert uses the extremely cost-effective Muji recycled paper thumbnail sketch note ($1.50) tucked into a Muji Denium tag book cover ($5.95).

Read more on how he came across this technique here. Below is the full set of sketchnotes produced during PopTech 2011.

(via PopTech)

Robert Fabricant is vice president of creative for frog design based in New York, where he leads multidisciplinary design teams for clients such as BBC, Comcast, GE, MTV, Nextel, and Nissan. 

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Chipp Walters on Visual Facilitation on the iPad

from Chipp Walters:

Here are some sketch notes on a new way to use the iPad to do facilitation. This approach also works with GoToMeeting and WebEx allowing a facilitator to draw on their iPad and share it with all meeting attendees. I also talk about Tunewears fantastic new stylus as well as the best visual note taking app I know of: Neu.Notes+ 

You can learn more at: http://blog.chipp.com

(via Graphic Facilitation Group on LinkedIn)

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‘Get Connected Week’ with Mindjet

On March 20th - 22nd Mindjet will be holding ‘Get Connected Week’, a 3-day virtual event that will demonstrate how visualisation and collaboration are driving innovative teams from vision to action.

During the event attendees will be invited to take part in a series of live online seminars that will include introductions to Mindjet's visualisation software, guest speakers and practical role-based seminars to show you how visualisation can be applied to day-to-day scenarios.

If you are interested reserve your place now at http://getconnected.mindjet.com

(via Visual Thinking Group on LinkedIn)

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2012 IFVP Pittsburgh

A commuter rate is now available for the 2012 IFVP Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - July 24 - 27, 2012.

Space is filling fast. 

Register now: IFVP member rate is $1675 (includes conference + accomodations).

We are pleased to offer a special $1200 "commuter" rate (does not include hotel room accommodations).

Learn more about our pre-conference Graphic Recording 101 and 201 workshops. 
(Pre-conference training incurs an additional $500 fee)

Please register for the commuter rate online at IFVP's registration website
http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1051531

Find out more about the conference at http://www.ifvp.org/ifvp2012/index.html and http://ifvpcommunity.ning.com/page/conference

We hope to see you in Pittsburgh!

Wizard Wall Cling Film

Wizard Wall™ is a cling film that turns any indoor surface into an easel without the need for tape, pins, or nails. Wizard Wall film serves as an instant repositionable white board and with its imbedded static charge clings on either side. Wizard Wall has hundreds of uses -- ideal for collaboration, planning and instruction.

Leah Silverman of designbyleah.com writes:

I really like their product and see us using it throughout the week. I've requested that they send you a sample sheet so you can think about how you might use it during the GR training. It won't necessarily replace paper but there are some practice exercises that I can see that could benefit from using whiteboard and erasable markers to reduce the paper footprint, saving space and paper.

I used it at a meeting yesterday with permanent markers instead of paper and really liked that I had an instant permanent chart to hand off to the speaker. It currently comes in rolls of 30 inches by 50 feet. The company is looking to expand the roll size to 42 or 48" to accommodate our needs. It's a green product made of recycled plastic and if used with whiteboard markers can be reused and repositioned over and over again.

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