The Center for Graphic Facilitation

Learning from the Masters: Street Artists

photo © 2009 Josh Blair | more info(via: Wylio)

 

I am an unabashed fan of street art. Whether back alleys of small towns or flashy building-sized murals, these are the real masters of communicating ideas to the masses.

Sunni Brown’s Ignite Talk at FOO Camp: The Doodle Revolution | VizThink

via vizthink.com

At FOO Camp 2010, this radical sketchnotista leaves it all on the stage in this speed round of deconstructing the dynamics of doodles and how we learn and make stuff happen!

Sunni Brown, Sharpie's official resident doodler based in Austin, proclaims:

"Bring on the freakin' Doodle Revolution!"

Check out the impact that Sunni Brown, founder of Brightspot and co-author Dave Gray, founder of Xplane, are having with their new book, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers .

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Dan Roam's "Back of the Napkin" Conference Sept 16-17

 
Last chance to join Dan in NY Sept 16-17, 2010

Join Dan Roam, author of the best-selling The Back of the Napkin series, for his visual thinking conference in NYC! This is the complete two-day visual training that Dan has delivered at Microsoft, eBay, Boeing, Gap, Kraft, the US Navy, and the United States Senate.

Register Here.
https://www.regonline.com/the_back_of_the_napkin_training_conference_ny_sept

Affinia Manhattan Hotel, New York

Attendees receive:

• Two full days of hands-on visual problem solving
• The Back of the Napkin Expanded Edition
• Unfolding the Napkin Workbook
• Personal whiteboard and drawing tools

For full details, visit The Back of the Napkin.com.

See video of Dan Roam's Keynote Speech at the 15th International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference.

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam, The Visual Thinker Spectrum

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam (part 2) from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

FVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam, Solving Problems with Pictures

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam (part 1) from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Introduction to Brandy Agerbeck & Her Graphic Facilitation Video Tutorials

Why Scribing Works: Tom Wujec on 3 ways the brain creates meaning

This is probably the most concise, well illustrated explanation of what happens in the brain will we watch graphic facilitation in action!

From TED 2009: Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

Dan Roam: 1st Public "Back of the Napkin" Conference

Join Dan for his first public visual thinking conference. This is the complete two-day version of visual training that Dan has delivered at Microsoft,eBay, Boeing, Gap, Kraft, the US Navy, and theUnited States Senate.

$1,095. Register Here.
https://www.regonline.com/thebackofthenapkin_march2010
Kabuki Hotel, San Francisco

Attendees receive:

• Two full days of hands-on visual problem solving
• The Back of the Napkin Expanded Edition
• Unfolding the Napkin Workbook
• Personal whiteboard and drawing tools

For full details, visit The Back of the Napkin.com.
Dan's two new books available Dec. 30!


The Back of the Napkin Expanded Edition

• Larger format.
• Color.
• New & updated material.

Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures

• Completely new "how-to" visual method guide.
• Dozens of self-guided visual exercises.
• Introduces the 4 unwritten rules of visual thinking.

On Your Feet: Can Executives Learn to Ignore the Script?

Gary Hirsch in the Portland, Ore., office of On Your Feet, which he helped found. His consulting firm (a self-proclaimed "miniscule multi-national") helps employees loosen up and make “cool mistakes.”

clipped from www.nytimes.com MANAGERS striving to foster creativity often use the time-worn phrase “thinking outside the box” to encourage workers to come up with something nobody else in the room is thinking. But the improvisational actress Patricia Ryan Madson has a better idea: Look inside the box and take a fresh look at what’s already there. The author of “Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up,” Ms. Madson helps organizations find new ways to play off one another in an unscripted romp toward what might be. Turning the planning process inside out, she says, is an important part of learning how best to “ready, fire, aim.” “We’re all creators given the conditions and permission to do so,” she says. “All too often, there are corporate cultures that say: ‘Be creative, but don’t make any mistakes.’  Improv opens doors to doing things a different way.”

Debunking 3rd World Myths with Animated Statistics

You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful.