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, …

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.

Wait, HOW much do we owe?

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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…