Did you know that Mickey Mouse was created using almost entirely circles and ovals?
Here are five cartoon characters I created with combinations of circles, squares, and triangles. Two of the characters use only one shape!
I drew these figures with a Wacom tablet and the ArtRage 2.5 illustration program.
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Do you every make a grocery list that does not contain everything you need? I find it much more effective to create a quick diagram of what groceries, starting with major categories (recipes I want to make, or types of food) and then branching out to ingredients.
This is a quick [...]

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Today’s visual notes show the power of feedback. Specifically from my Mom, Rochelle Cashdan, who is a writer and who also has an excellent visual sense. I am lucky to have someone who has sharp critical faculties who actually cares about me enough to give me detailed feedback.
Mom’s suggestions for improvement were reinforced by [...]

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Like many, I am very inspired by Kathy Sierra’s work in which she tries to figure out how to make her customers kick ass. I find that this focus on kicking ass is quite useful when trying to figure out whether to do something or not. If that something helps me kick ass (as a [...]

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To mark the two week point of my project to post visual notes for 100 days straight, I walked around the office and got nuggets of wisdom from various folks.
Enjoy!

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Todays visual notes are from a virtual meeting between Roy Blumenthal, Dean Meyers, and Jonny Goldstein. We talked about the business of visual thinking and facilitated our conversation with over twenty sketchnotes.
We used DimDim, a free web conferencing service that includes a whiteboard.
We used Skype for the Audio, which seemed to work better than the [...]

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Here are my visual notes to help me guide my actions today. The big one (in my mind if not on the notes), plan an outline for a Visual Thinking Bootcamp I want to run in Philly sometime soon.
The May 27 part of the notes refer to the upcoming VizThink Philly 2 meeting. We’ll be [...]

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