I go to a lot of conferences. The Common Ground conference in Baltimore is hands down one of my favorites. The conference is for educators who want to think about how to provide a great learning experience for kids in the 21st century. I provided graphic recording a couple of years ago when the conference [...]

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I was honored to lead a visual communication excercise at TEDxTheCollegeOfWooster, as well as to have the opportunity to visually synthesize the ideas swirling around the room during the excellent presentations. Congrats to event producer, College of Wooster student Christina Haupt, and all the other folks who pitched in to create a magical event. The [...]

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Show-n-Tell 7 rocked with Rebecca Harris of the Chatham Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship talked about making it as an entrepreneur, Anne Marie Toccket, Nick Fedorek, and Katherine Camp gave an update on the Pittsburgh Hostel Project, and Derek Minto shared his journey to becoming a comedian and explained how a loved one did something very [...]

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(Capturing conversation at the community partnership workshop) If you are in any of the photos and would like your name captioned, send me an email jonny(at)envizualize.com, or comment below and I will write a caption for you. Helping plan and run an International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) conference is a powerful learning experience, once [...]

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The blocks between Children’s Hospital and Negley on Penn Avenue are crackling with character, invention, and reinvention. Every month I see formerly empty storefronts buzzing with new ventures. This is overlaid with businesses and institutions that have been around for decades. One of the newer entries on Penn Avenue is the Co-working Space, catapultPGH. CatapultPGH [...]

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(Graphic by Leah Silverman) (Leah Silverman, Emily Marko, Jonny Goldstein at our first planning meeting for the IFVP 2012 Conference) (Jonny Goldstein with brainspill on the topic of the upcoming visual thinking for groups conference in Pittsburgh, AKA the 17th Annual IFVP Conference) The rapid approach of the 2012 International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference [...]

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I am thrilled that the International Forum of Visual Practitioners 2012 conference will be happening in my current hometown, Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges. Pittsburgh holds the world record for number of bridges, edging out Venice by four bridges. I think this is very appropriate to the IFVP conference, as we help our clients connect [...]

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