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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I created these illustrations for a video that promotes Philadelphia as the perfect testbed for the google high speed fiber initiative. The video will go live on Friday, but I thought I’d get them up ahead of time. To find out more about the public-private partnership in Philly to promote the City of Firsts as [...]

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RSVP HERE In the upcoming VizThink, we will look at some processes and visual tools to make group collaboration more  productive. Justin Witman and Fraser Marshall will lead a mini-workshop on visualizing individual character and group profiles, which can then be used to find collective group purpose. When a group has a shared sense of [...]

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Richard Saul Wurman delighted me when he spoke at the SenseMaker Dialogs last Tuesday in New York City. I remember picking up his book, Information Anxiety, for the first time in the early 90′s, a terrified and confident young man, and loving every little bit of it, the provocative micromanifestos, the frequent sidebars, the anecdotes, [...]

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Had a fantastic experience at the PhillyChi Design Slam. Here are a few photos and short video clips. Here is how the slam was described before the event: Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a "made-up" real-world problem. Awards will be given to the victors "During the [...]

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I have been a fan of Brandy Agerbeck's work for the last couple of years. In this video, she explains how she uses graphic recording as part of a facilitated event. In the video, Agerbeck explains two benefits of graphic facilitation: better thinking and better communication. She works in an iconic, colorful, playful style that [...]

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The video above has a great example of a company using a visual comparison to make the case that they can serve you better than their competitor. In this case it’s Verizon vs. AT&T. Visual comparisons are a powerful way to market your service, product, or idea. In his book, Back of the Napkin, Dan [...]

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