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:
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
VizThink Austin: Visual Thinking for Writers
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.
Visual Thinking for Writers with Austin Kleon
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.