Books

Lynda Barry’s Cure for Fear of Drawing

[25 Feb 2011 | 2 Comments | 8,202 views]
Lynda Barry’s Cure for Fear of Drawing

Lynda Barry’s new book Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book takes her invention, the graphic memoir, into uncharted territory. She brings back Marlys and Arna, characters from her previous book, What It Is, and introduces the Near-Sighted Monkey, a cigarette-smoking alter ego …

Digging Deeper into Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate”

[9 Jan 2011 | One Comment | 6,463 views]
Digging Deeper into Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate”

VizThink recently came across a thoughtful book review pointing out “five less-talked-about gems” in presentation master Nancy Duarte‘s latest book Resonate. The review was penned by New Zealand-based presentation trainer and blogger Olivia Mitchell and, with permission, is largely excerpted here: …

[Books] Visual Meetings by David Sibbet

[9 Aug 2010 | 2 Comments | 8,667 views]
[Books] Visual Meetings by David Sibbet

David Sibbet is one of the leading minds in the visual thinking & facilitation industry, and when David has a new book or product, it’s worth stopping to take notice. His organization, The Grove, is not only a great consultancy …

[Podcast] Visual Miscellaneum: An Interview with David McCandless

[20 Nov 2009 | 6 Comments | 3,553 views]
[Podcast] Visual Miscellaneum: An Interview with David McCandless

Earlier this week I got on the phone with David McCandless, author of The Visual Miscellaneum, his new book of visualizations of ‘the world’s most consequential trivia”. During the conversation we discussed how the idea for the book came about, …

What do you want to ask the author of ‘The Visual Miscellaneum’?

[16 Nov 2009 | Comments Off | 2,094 views]
What do you want to ask the author of ‘The Visual Miscellaneum’?

Tomorrow, November 17th, I’ll be hopping on the phone with David McCandless to discuss his new book The Visual Miscellaneum,  a beautiful collection of the “world’s most consequential data” in visual form. I got my hands on the book late last week …

2008 Was a Great Year for Visual Communication Books

[13 Nov 2008 | One Comment | 2,044 views]
2008 Was a Great Year for Visual Communication Books

As Amazon starts to publish their Top of 2008 lists for the year it’s great to see a couple of Visual Thinking oriented books show up on the “Best Business & Investing” list: Presentation Zen At #3 on the Customer’s …

[Podcast] A conversation with Jim Haudan CEO of Root Learning

[11 Nov 2008 | Comments Off | 1,590 views]

While we’re still wrapping up VizThink Europe ’08, it’s time to begin launching VizThink ’09 in San Jose. Today is the first in a series of posts that will announce the incredible lineup of facilitators we have planned for San …

Book Review: slide:ology by Nancy Duarte

[9 Sep 2008 | 2 Comments | 2,352 views]
Book Review: slide:ology by Nancy Duarte

slide:ology is one of my favorite business books of the year so far, and, yes, it is a business book.  In fact, I think it should be the top of any business person’s reading list.  If you ever have to …

[Podcast] slide:ology, Nancy Duarte’s new book

[25 Aug 2008 | 6 Comments | 3,976 views]

One of the benefits of working at VizThink is that we get to read advanced copies of books by the many smart people in our industry.  Some are better than others, but none compare to the next book on our …

Now Open: The VizThink Store

[11 Jul 2008 | Comments Off | 1,444 views]

Missed out on a book at the conference earlier this year? New to the Visual Thinking space and wondering where to start? Just need a new book to read this weekend? We’ve got an announcement for you… VizThink Store is …