Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s best known for his Newspaper Blackout Poems—poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker. His first book, Newspaper Blackout, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial in April 2010. He lives in Austin, Texas. See his work online at:www.austinkleon.com.Workshops with Austin Kleon:
Sunni Brown in Austin has just let me know about the next Vizthink Austin community event coming up on February 3rd, 2010. They’re lucky enough to count VizThinkU faculty member Austin Kleon as one of their own and he’s graciously agreed to present his Visual Thinking for Writers session for the upcoming session.
Struggling with Writer’s Block? Taunted and daunted by that blinking Microsoft Word cursor? Do you feel like you have a lot to say, but can’t figure out how to get what’s in your head into words?
Writing is linear. Your brain is not. Visual thinking is the tool to wrangle your non-linear thoughts into clear writing.
In this hour-long webinar, we ’step away’ from the computer and look at techniques for making writing with our head and our hands.
Instructors: Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown & Mike Rohde
Run-time: Approx. 3 hours
Format: VizThinkU Recording
Fee: $99
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Course Description
Ever since Leonardo put pen to paper, visual note-taking has been a route to improve the quality of your thinking, make information more memorable, and make your ideas easier to share with others. Learn practical techniques and “tricks of the trade” from modern visual note-taking masters Mike Rohde, Sunni Brown and Austin Kleon. In this three-hour course you will …
