The Basics

In this section we’ve carefully selected the content form this site that is ideal for people starting to get up to speed on visual thinking and the various disciplines that are most commonly used.

VizThink Lille

[29 Mar 2012 | No Comment | 770 views]

1ère soirée VizThink Lille le mardi 10 avril 2012. Infos sur www.vizthink.fr 1st ViZthink Lille evening on Tuesday 10 March 2010. All details on www.vizthink.fr

VizThink Toulouse

[29 Mar 2012 | No Comment | 733 views]

1ère soirée VizThink Toulouse ce vendredi 30 mars 2012. Infos sur www.vizthink.fr 1st VizThink Toulouse evening this Friday 30th 2012. All Details on www.vizthink.fr

VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication

[2 Apr 2011 | 8 Comments | 7,179 views]
VizThink NYC: The Power of Visual Communication

For VizThink NYC’s third workshop of 2011 BigBlueGumball took the crowd on a fun and engaging trip into the world of visual communication. Steve and Todd Cherches (also known as Todd and Steve Cherches, or BigBlueGumball) showed us, through three …

VizThink NYC: Drawing for Thinkers

[1 Mar 2011 | One Comment | 8,729 views]
VizThink NYC: Drawing for Thinkers

No, the picture on the right is not from some ritualistic cult ceremony or a crazy torture experiment…it is from the February 2011 VizThink NYC event entitled “Drawing for Thinkers Workshop” led by guest presenter Liz Burow. Liz, a seasoned …

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 …

Daniel Weil: Drawing the Process

[24 Jan 2011 | 2 Comments | 6,084 views]
Daniel Weil: Drawing the Process

Like many designers, Pentagram’s Daniel Weil uses sketching to visualize, generate and refine his ideas. Weil has, by his estimation, more than 375 sketchbooks, going all the way back to 1978. In a new short film directed by Nicolas Heller, …

Interactive Scale of the Universe

[5 Jan 2011 | 2 Comments | 7,382 views]
Interactive Scale of the Universe

View the relative size of various things ranging from seriously microscopic to seriously far-off deep space

Daily Drawing: Every Person in New York

[4 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | 4,866 views]
Daily Drawing: Every Person in New York

Jason Polan started Every Person in New York in March of 2008. He draws very quickly, in two minutes or less, in all sorts of public locations and tries not to be noticed. He plans on working on the project until it …

Journalism in the Age of Data

[4 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | 9,874 views]
Journalism in the Age of Data

A comprehensive video report on data visualization as a storytelling medium. Created by Geoff McGhee, an online journalist specializing in multimedia and information graphics, as part of a 2009-2010 Knight Journalism Fellowship.

Collection of Free Symbols: The Noun Project

[20 Dec 2010 | 4 Comments | 9,646 views]
Collection of Free Symbols: The Noun Project

All the symbols that form our language in one easy-to-use online library