visual thinking

Sunni Brown’s Ignite Talk at FOO Camp: The Doodle Revolution

[25 Aug 2010 | View Comments | 729 views]
Sunni Brown’s Ignite Talk at FOO Camp: The Doodle Revolution

Here, VizThinker Sunni Brown gives a concise and hilarious presentation on the power of the doodle.

[Event] Storm the Games: Bringing on the Doodle Revolution with Sunni Brown

[25 Aug 2010 | View Comments | 389 views]
[Event] Storm the Games: Bringing on the Doodle Revolution with Sunni Brown

“Place a pencil and pad near the telephone of any human of more than primeval intelligence and the bet is ten to one that he’ll doodle during his next telephone call.” So said Steven Arundel, author of Everybody’s Pixillated, in …

The beauty of data visualization: David McCandless at TED

[23 Aug 2010 | View Comments | 798 views]
The beauty of data visualization: David McCandless at TED

David McCandless show that information can be beautiful and even funny.

[Books] Visual Meetings by David Sibbet

[9 Aug 2010 | View Comments | 1,468 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 …

The New York Times & Infographics: How they do it.

[5 Aug 2010 | View Comments | 1,089 views]
The New York Times & Infographics: How they do it.

Gestalten, creators of some fantastic visual oriented content including books, video & other media recently posted an episode of their Gestalten.tv podcast where they sat down wia couple of members of the New York Times infographics team to talk about …

[Webinar] Design & Politics: A Conversation With Scott Thomas

[4 Aug 2010 | View Comments | 952 views]
[Webinar] Design & Politics: A Conversation With Scott Thomas

Last week, Scott Thomas (aka @SimpleScott), Design Director for the 2008 Obama campaign joined us here at VizThink for a conversation about his experiences during the campaign and how design played a key role in helping their candidate deliver a …

Sunni Brown and the Doodle Revolution: a TEDx talk

[14 May 2010 | View Comments | 4,245 views]
Sunni Brown and the Doodle Revolution: a TEDx talk

Recently, VizThinker Sunni Brown gave a talk as part of a TEDx event held at the University of Texas at Austin – centered on the topic of visual note-taking, Sunni laid out the case for why incorporating visuals into one’s …

Visual Note-taking 101 at SXSW ’10

[10 May 2010 | View Comments | 4,508 views]
Visual Note-taking 101 at SXSW ’10

The crew from our most popular VizThinkU webinar to date, Visual Note-taking 101, took their show on the road a few months ago with a session at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Recently, the conference organizers released an audio podcast of the session – which was great, but not all that useful for a session discussing visual thinking and sketch noting ideas. Thankfully, Austin Kleon, took the time to gather slides and images from the session and has added a visuals to the Audio.

Click through to check out the full slidecast here on VizThink.com

The Ebb & Flow of South by Southwest

[29 Mar 2010 | View Comments | 1,878 views]
The Ebb & Flow of South by Southwest

A couple of weeks ago, the masses gathered in Austin, Texas for this years South by Southwest Festival (better known as SXSW). In recent years the ‘Interactive’ portion of the conference has grown in leaps and bounds bringing with it …

Impress: a flexible display

[26 Mar 2010 | View Comments | 2,923 views]
Impress: a flexible display

I don’t know how I’ve missed this until today (the video was posted ~a year ago) but this is sure to make many of our VizThinkers giddy with excitement. It’s called “Impress” and it’s a flexible display prototype created by Silke Hilsing – not in the “flexible” sense that it can be used like a piece of fabric sense.

Click through to see a video of Impress in action…