I was honored to have the chance to do large scale visual notes at the Sprout Fund’s Making Sparks event in Pittsburgh recently. Community members, childhood development specialists, technologists, and media producers converged to share ideas, tips, and inspiration around the topic of how to create projects that engage children ages birth to eight in [...]

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Dear Philadelphia, I love you. When it comes to a loving a place, it’s always a combination—the place itself and the people you meet there. For example I met wonderful people living in Washington DC, but the place itself stressed me out. I kept ending up in the Pentagon parking lot by accident. I love [...]

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Our Flickr Group. Books: Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam (Using pictures to solve problems—written to appeal to business people. Full of useful models and techniques, gives insight into concerns of business people) Gamestorming, Sunni Brown, Dave Gray, James Mancufo (Full of ideas for designing workshop and meeting activities with game and visual elements) Visual [...]

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I just returned from a powerful conference: The Ripple Effects of Visual Practice, IFVP 2010. (Photo by Lynn Carruthers) 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 [...]

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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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