“Drawing & Design” with Karl Gude
Consistently rated as one of the favorite facilitators for our conferences and workshops, Karl Gude is back with an all-new workshop for VizThinkU called “Drawing & Design”.
Often, concepts need to be sketched out so that others can “see” what is in a person’s head, and this requires confidence in one’s ability to do so. Most people are visual learners who can more easily understand highly complicated concepts when they are drawn out as opposed to only being written about, but people can worry that their visualization skills are no match for the task at hand, and so they write…and write, and write.
Visualizing information can require skills in many areas —critical thinking, conceptualization, presentation, drawing, design, technology, etc.— and in this one hour-long workshop, Karl will teach you the two “D’s” of visual communication, drawing and design. This lesson will benefit all skill levels, but it will be especially useful if you are a beginner. Karl will give you simple visual tools and rules that anyone can use to sketch out your ideas and then package them all together.
“Karl Gude’s session was chock full of useful tips and tricks combined with examples and stories from his years of experience. There are few things more engaging than a learning experience that feels interesting and exciting. I sat spellbound listening and sketching, sketching and listening… and I’ve shared several things with my coworkers and friends already!”
- Tracey Lyon, Instructional Designer
With VizThinkU you get immediate access to the recording today for only $59:
Some examples of Karl’s work:
Other Artwork by Karl: Various | Children’s | Cartoons
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Karl Gude
Gude spent 25 years visualizing information for various large news organizations including The Associated Press and Newsweek magazine. As a visual journalist, information designer and artist, Gude’s mission was to simplify, or “laymanize”, complex topics so that the average reader could understand them. When Chernobyl melted down, Gude diagrammed how a graphite nuclear reactor worked, how it failed and the dangers of the China Syndrome. He has mapped every war and diagrammed most new military technologies since the late 70s. Gude charted the fall of Enron and the rise of Apple computer and explained the World Trade Center attack. He has even shown how a garden can be planted so that flowers bloom throughout the day. Gude was the Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek for nearly a decade before moving to academia three years ago. He now teaches information graphics and visual communication at the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. He gives frequent lectures on the subject of visualization and has conducted scores of workshops on diagramming, storyboarding, designing, graphing and mapping around the world and is a consultant for the CIA on visualization. His seminars have been attended by employees from Google, Ebay, Raytheon and other large companies. Gude understands that words alone can’t tell the whole story, and he enjoys inspiring artists and non-artists alike to show, don’t tell. |
