I just returned from a powerful conference: The Ripple Effects of Visual Practice, IFVP 2010.

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The conference marked the 15th year of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners, and met in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco. The hotel where the conference unfolded is appropriately across the street from Oracle and [...]

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Capturing moments at IFVP Conference 2010

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Had a wonderful time capturing ideas at Supernova Forum 2010 with large scale visual notes. Just click on a picture to see a larger version.

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If you want to be an entrepreneurial artist, you can learn a lot from a seventh grader I met this a couple of weekends ago. I know I did.
Meet Johnny D.
Last weekend, Johnny D was sitting behind a table in the midst of the Italian Market Festival in South Philadelphia offering to draw [...]

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Above:Steve Red’s talk about how his agency, Red Tettemer has embraced change.

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Above: Parts 1 and 2 of David Levy’s discussion of the agency of the future, using GrowthFactorX as an example of one approach.

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Above: Veronica Wentz gave a [...]

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Lately I have been getting interested in negotiation. Above, I have drawn a picture of one of the basic concepts—positions versus interests. Positions are a what a party states they want, and interests are what motivate those assertions.
You can think of interests as the tip of the iceberg—they are what are visible. But dive [...]

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Dave Martorana was kind enough to let me play around with the SketchBook Pro App on his shiny new iPad.
This was all done with my fingers. While it was fun, it is highly limited.
Limitations:
1) Not pressure sensitive—that means you have no control of your line weight in real time. This is caused [...]

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