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Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality

It's Finally Here!

After more than a year of hard work and many drawings, drafts, and edits, ImageThink is excited to say that Draw Your Big Idea has made its way to the bookshelf!  

Drawing from years of experience as visual problem solvers for Fortune 50 companies, Draw Your Big Idea is packed with drawing exercises that will help entrepreneurs crystallize their visions, create actionable plans, and bring ideas out of the clouds and into reality.     

#DrawYourBigIdea 

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Looking To Become A Stronger Leader?

Are you looking to become a stronger leader?  Do you want to gain the skills and toolsets to encourage participation in your organization, and facilitate focused discussions?

Come to beautiful Cape Cod August 11-13 for the Gestalt International Study Center's Visual Leadership Program!  Lead by ImageThink co-founder, Nora Herting, and supported by GISC faculty Sky Freyss-Cole and Gwynne Guzzeau. In this intimate setting amongst other leaders you will learn strategic tools to help you:

Clarify and Align Goals, Actions and Outcomes

• Increase the ability of your group to envision the future and to create a shared picture of what it looks like.
• Use visual tools to help your team and partners to get on the same page with clear goals, roles and commitments.

Visualize Your Ideas

• Present your ideas visually and get buy-in from your leaders, team members, partners or clients.
• Make complex issues understandable by making the connections visible.

Stimulate Participation

• Use templates and learning maps to engage colleagues or stakeholders in idea development and decision making to ensure high level of ownership.
• Use the visual language to activate creative and critical thinking at the same time.

Spots are filling fast, but we want to see you there!  

Sign up Today 

Sunni Brown - Unlocking the power to think differently

 

Sunni Brown
Chief Infodoodler™
Sunni Brown, Ink

The Doodle Revolution is a prequel to Gamestorming  and also a global movement unto itself. It’s an entertaining and informative romp through applied visual language for non-artists, but it also aims to radically overturn our social (mis)perceptions about doodling. To doodle is not to waste time or to be distracted. Instead, doodling is a powerful technique people use around the world to help themselves THINK.

 

How to Write Like an Architect

In this video from the series How to Architect, Doug Patt demonstrates how to architect with the basic drafting tools for an architect when working by hand: a parallel rule, a t-square, and an Ames lettering guide to create the lines for the lettering. 

Although this is a controlled tabletop activity, the principles apply to graphic recording. Doug's advice: "I'd say the most important thing to remember about hand lettering is that your letters need to seem animated while still appearing orderly and neat. I think this is achieved by using a few conventions."

(via Dave's Faves)

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Graphic Novel of MLK used in Egyptian Protests

(from Caitlin Dimino)

 

A comic book originally used in the US that was translated into Arabic and later was distributed in Tahrir Square.

We also translated a forgotten 1958 comic book about Martin Luther King's Montgomery Bus Boycott into Arabic

When, at first, we went to print the comic book, a security officer blocked publication. So we called him and demanded a meeting. He agreed, and we read through the comic book over coffee to address his concerns.

At the end, he granted permission to print and then asked: "Could I have a few extra copies for my kids?"  The comic book has been credited with inspiring young activists in Egypt and the larger region (we have a Farsi version as well). Last week I distributed copies in Tahrir Square. Seeing the scene in the square firsthand is amazing.

Despite violent attacks and tanks in the street, young people from all walks of life are coming together, organizing food and medical care, and offering a living model of free civil society in action.

~ from a recent eNewsletter from Dalia Ziada, AIC Egypt Office Director, American Islamic Congress

See and download the full gallery on posterous

 

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Help Others to Make the Drawing Switch

Brandy Agerbeck,Graphic Facilitation,Drawing,Learning Tools

Brandy Agerbeck of Loosetooth has started a viral campaign targeting people who have (sadly) told themselves they can no longer draw.

Her hope? To flip on "the drawing switch"!

Her new site and funky flyers take inspiration from Ed Emberley and his life-long mission to make drawing as accessible and easy as writing the alphabet.

(Check out Ed's fun tutorials in the "Drawing Skills" section of our recommended books list.)

MORE at http://thedrawingswitch.com/

IFVP 2010: Question & Answers with Guido Neuland

from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Guido Neuland, of Marketing & Sales for Neuland GmbH & Co KG, answers questions from attendees at the 15th International Forum of Visual Practicioners conference.

This member of the talented Neuland family which builds high-end tools for cutting edge facilitators answer questions about their design process, product engineering and new tools.

VizThink Podcast with Jerry Michalski

Jerry Michalski describes himself as "a pattern finder, lateral thinker, Gladwellian connector and explorer of the interactions between technology, society and business."

In this podcast from VizThink, Jerry discusses how he thinks visually and helps others to navigete the massive universe of ideas and information.

Visual Knowledge Management from VizThink:

100s of messages in your inbox, overflowing blog readers, browser tabs filled with websites to explore…that and so much more can lead to information overload.  For over a decade, Jerry Michalski has been using his Brain to not just process that information, but to organize, recall, and find hidden relationships between the disparate pieces of information.  In this 15 minute, 34 second podcast, we discuss using visualization for knowledge management, dealing with massive quantities of information over long periods, and a view of where future technology needs to go in order to manage the rapidly increasing volumes of information.

PODCAST: http://www.vizthink.com/blog/2008/12/29/visual-knowledge-management/

BRAIN: You can view Jerry's massive on-line brain, Enumerated Wisdom, at: http://sociate.thebrain.com/

Show/World Mapping Tool

 http://show.mappingworlds.c

Similar to WorldMapper, this cool Flash-enabled tool allows you to selct a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value. [Thanks, Tim Zak]

Evernote Makes Scribing Searchable

OK. This changes the game.

Using Evernote, the new software to integrate collections of images and text across platforms, graphic facilitators now have a tool that allows for their work to be searchable.

It works, too! Once you upload, drag-n-drop or email a photo of a drawing, the software adds it to a "notebook" that is either public or private. Then, the user can do a normal word search and Evernote finds the word--even in handwritten form!