January 2012
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The correlation between coffee and tech startups...
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November 2011
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Radiofeature über visuelles Denken: "Von der...
Ein ganz hervorragender Beitrag über Graphic Recording, Denken in Bildern und eben “die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Zeichnen”. Danke Frank Kaspar für den sehr guten praktischen Einblick und die theoretische Durchleuchtung der Materie. Die Audiospur gibts bei dradio.de im On-Demand-Bereich oder als Link auf der Seite in der Artikelüberschrift. Von der allmählichen...
A late #closetlefty No.2 for Nov 3, 2011: Happy...
My good friend Gretta has currently locked herself up in a room without daylight in Berlin Wedding and is doing a performance exploring the boundaries of online communication. “For 10 days the artist will be available 24 hr/day for discussions, emails, comments, or interviews of both private and professional nature for any internet user wishing to take part in the project. All necessary...
#closetlefty No.1, Nov 2, 2011: "Never Miss A Good...
I just broke my right arm. That’s the one I usually draw with. Because I won’t be able to do that for the next two months, I decided to get my left arm to use.I’ll document my process and will make some kind of visual every day, either written or drawn, but always with my left hand.I decided to call it Project Closet Lefty. Hope you’ll enjoy it. Posted via...
October 2011
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I really quite adore that Nosferatu picture...
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Visualized - the principles of the new Danish...
My friend Nanna and her colleagues have set out to explain the principles of the new Danish government in pictures. Nice job, you’ll get most of it even if you don’t speak Danish. via underombygning.wordpress.com Open publication - Free publishing - More 2011 And I love the fact that the ministers arrived by bike for their official presentation. via facebook.com ...
August 2011
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Endearing project: "Snail Mail My Email: bringing...
The project actually ends today, but for what it’s worth - it’s so sweet it’ll make you all gooey inside and feel like you’ve eaten too many marshmellows. via flickr.com “We move in such a fast-paced world that, sometimes, that world can feel kind of cold and impersonal,” project founder Ivan Cash told CNN. A designer based in San Francisco, Cash...
July 2011
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Got a serious crush on those Michael Manoogian...
via somuchpileup.blogspot.com More: http://somuchpileup.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-manoogian.html# Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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The Light Rider in action in downtown Neukölln...
The Graffiti Research Lab has been hitting the streets of Neukölln the past couple of weeks. Their vehicle of coice: the Light Rider, a cargo bike, fully equipped with a laptop, a projector and power. What the Light Rider can do: virtual graffiti on pretty much any surface that’s big enough to be laser-tagged. Here’s some footage from last weekend’s trip to H&M on...
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A marvelous map contest: Draw & Travel - maps...
I find it interesting how people shape maps according to how they perceive the world and what’s important to them. Most of the time they’re far from accurate (in perspective, detail, ratio…), but if you were to follow them you’d probably still find your way around. I once read an article about why that works and how our brains makes sense out of that kind information -...
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Graphic recordings for Germany's Green Party [in...
Grüße aus Hamburg! Bin gerade (mal wieder und wie immer sehr gerne) bei der Good School und visualisiere digitale Kommunikation. Letzte Woche in Berlin gabs auch nen guten Termin - auf der Tagesordnung aber eher klassische Themen: solidarische Gesellschaft, Informationsfreiheit und Teilhabe. Christoph und ich waren auf der Zukunftskonferenz der Grünen und haben ein paar Workshops auf sechs Meter...
June 2011
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Excellent in-depth article on visual thinking in...
Mit Beispielen von Jodok, den Kollegen der Innovation Factory und den Kommunikationslotsen, und zwischendrin komme auch noch zu Wort. Besten Dank Anja Dilk für die hervorragende Zusammenfassung! Bilder statt Bullet Points Visualisierung ist der neue Trend auf Tagungen und Konferenzen - ein Report von Anja Dilk Open Space, World Café, Design Thinking, Barcamps, Unkonferenzen. Neue...
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Here's a glimpse at what will be happening at my...
The workshop will be about how to quickly draw and explain your business idea or project (not about graphic recording as mentioned in the text). There will be paper, markers and lots of fun, so if you’re in Cologne, stop by. Interview mit Anna Lena Schiller zum Graphic Recording Anna Lena Schiller ist eine vielbeschäftigte Person. Mit ihrer Form des Graphic Recordings reist die...
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Want: Landmade Cork Journal
The Landmade Cork Journal is a note keeper’s delight. Made with all natural cork, the cover features a beautiful mottled pattern unique to every book. And the journal is durable and user-friendly to boot, coming bound with the section sewn binding technique (the highest quality available on the market). This means that not only will the paper stay securely in place, the book...
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More #vizthink for meetings: "Drawing ideas is...
Marks Baskinger, associate professor at the School of Design of the Carnegie Mellon University, tells you why you should take your clients to cheap Italian restaurants and gives insights on how to have better meetings using visual thinking. Plus loads of practical tips for sketching for interface designers. via vimeo.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment » ...
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The benefits of sketching in a meeting #UX
I’ve recently been approached and asked if I could give visual thinking workshops for people working with UX und IX - sketching wireframes and the likes. So I went and did some research on the web on what’s already out there and found this story by a guy called Brett Lutchman. It nicely demonstrates the power of pen and paper during the concept phase. Often […] sessions are...
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Virutal spray paint - Graffiti on screen
“It is inspired by the techniques of drawing, painting, printing, graffiti, … and is built upon a digital process that enables an infinity of features and extensions. The cloth painting is the screen, the brush is a specific can. Sometimes mouse, other times brush, the specific can allows the user to paint or to change or select a parameter of the brush, his size or color. ...
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May 2011
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A quick drawing lesson by Ivan Brunetti -...
via youtube.com The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling - it is as much a matter of writing as it is of drawing. In this book, noted cartoonist and illustrator Ivan Brunetti presents fifteen distinct lessons on the art of cartooning, guiding his readers through wittily written passages on cartooning terminology, techniques, tools, and theory. Supplemented by Brunetti’s own...
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Uh, toilet paper infographic? Really?
Weird choice of topic, but nice execution I must admit. via engineeringdegree.net Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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"I work because I love this shit" - ArtRebels's...
via facebook.com More http://twitter.com/#!/ArtRebelsInfo/status/73018672200957952 Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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A good way to use handdrawn visualizations in...
A handdrawn visual, uploaded as a jpg to Prezi and then used as a template for the path. I was really annoyed with Prezi so far because the interface is too slow for my taste and the drawing options online are limited. This looks like a good solution to me though. Thanks Markus for the link. via achinger.com I played around with the possibilities of mixing online/offline drawings and...
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There's a free workshop on mass customization for...
And I’ll also be doing some graphic recording with a team of four. Drop by if you’re interested in either one of the topics :) For registration follow the link, there’s a limited number of seats available. Free Culture Incubator Workshop No 6:Get More Out Of What You Do - Mass Customization for Makers Tuesday, May 31st, 10 am- 6 pm End:...
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Some of my fellow @kaospilots alumni are running a...
If you’ve been looking for a way to change the world, have fun, make money and look ridicously good at the same time, you’ve just found it. Both the KaosPilots and Roskilde Festival have a longstanding tradition in social innovation and I’ll gladly vouch for them being awesome, I’ve attended both university and the festival for years ;) This year Roskilde...
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"We draw here, we don't disrobe." Sketch it like...
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A couple of shots from Tuesday's video shoot in...
I went to Munich earlier this week to film a video for http://www.text100.com/. They wrote the script, I drew the pictures and Ralf Luethy took care of the filming itself and all the technical setup in his backyard studio in Schwabing. That was my first proper video shoot with a big camera, lighting and editing. Loads of fun and a good working atmosphere made up for that odyssey I went through...
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What I like about Switzerland
A delayed plane in Zurich made me take out my sketchbook. Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
April 2011
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Interested in cultural and creative industries?...
After the Housing Forum in Budapest earlier this month I headed straight to Nuremberg to work with project leader Linn Quante on “kreativORTungen”, the second (and this time moving) conference on the cultural and creative industries. More on that in German: Wie möchtest Du in Zukunft leben und arbeiten? kreativORTungen lädt Künstler, Kultur- und Kreativschaffende zu einem...
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The re:publica graphic recordings feat. #hach,...
Feel free to embed, share, use them for your blog posts and even remix. If you need something else than the CC-BY-NC-SA license let me know, I’ll be glad to help out. Thanks Jonas for taking the pictures! via flickr.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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On the road - a quick recap of the last two weeks
The last two weeks have been insanely busy and there have been hardly any blogposts or tweets. So I thought I’d let you take a look at what happened. The Wikimedia Chapters Meeting was held in Berlin in late March. Second time working with Wikimedia, always a pleasure! Next stop Budapest in early April, being part of the fabulous two-person report-team with @nonformality. The ECA...
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I got a question: which sessions do you think...
The re:publica folks and I teamed up in 2010 to do visual documentation of some of the presentations, including Tim Wu on Net Neutrality, Jeff Jarvis on The German Paradox, Daniel Domscheit-Berg on Wikileaks and Bre Pettis on Makerbot. FAZ wrote an “interesting” article about this as well: http://www.faz.net/s/Rub475F682E3FC24868A8A5276D4FB916D7/Doc~E444C5E875DDA4F2… ...
March 2011
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Love the drawing and the animation, hate the...
Amazing how you can have a good idea, make a great video and ruin it with a silly voice over. Gee. What were they thinking. via corporate-editors.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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Puberty, storytelling, rainbow flash headers and...
A while ago I blogged a song called “Paris” by Berlin-based singer-songwriter Hans Unstern. Roland Brückner was the guy illustrating the video with a really wonderful one-line drawing that fit so well with the music. Roland is also part of a creative studio that’s focussed on narration and picture called bitteschön.tv. Gotta love that flash header ;) A week ago...
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Wonderful sign doodling by @coltbowden
“This weekend I had a few hours to sit through a confernce meeting, so I brought along the doodle book, and sharp pencil.. I started a little sign saying and then another and another, and before I knew it, I had filled up 9 (small) pages! I’ve been really into Steve Powers’ & Jeff Canhams’ sign work with catchy sayings on them.” Would love to buy some prints! ...
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Neat! Alexander Graham Bell's Delightfully Weird...
“It was on March 10, 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. “‘Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you,” he said to his assistant, who was in the next room. Bell recorded those early telephone experiments in his lab notebooks from the time, as he did with countless other experiments and ideas.” Read the rest of the...
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Jay-Z, Caribou, lots of drawing and some...
“We took the ideas of our followers on facebook and twitter and drew their suggestions as they were requested.” via vimeo.com Conversation Portrait by Flash Rosenberg ~ Artist-in-Residence, LIVE from the New York Public Library ~ ideas drawn as they are discussed in real time ~ via youtube.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
@floriz @tillwiedeck @aplusplus @fabianmu @gernot...
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Alright, here's the whole visual documentation of...
Here’s a flickr set of all graphic recordings done at the wonderful Cognitive Cities Conference held in Berlin on February 26 & 27, 2011. The original is 2x3 meters and is now on my living room wall until the owners pick ut up ;). It’s pretty impressive up close, I think this is the biggest visualization I’ve done so far. If you’d like prints or higher resolution...
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Oh yeah, this is how you do a bio! Ryan Robinson,...
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If you're into Isotype, symbols, icons, playing...
“The Gerd Arntz memory game app. Match you some ISOTYPEs!” via underconsideration.com via itunes.apple.com via itunes.apple.com Gerd Arntz (1900, Remscheid – 1988, The Hague) was a German Modernist artist and communist, famous for his black and white woodcuts. Born into a family of merchants, Arntz was educated at a private academy in Düsseldorf and later...
February 2011
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Great imagery - infographic on whether or not the...
Designer Peter Orntoft: “The project deals with data from a list of the social related interests of the Danish people. The list is the result of an opinion poll from a major consultancy company in Denmark. I have used the context of specific opinion polls within each interest to shape and design diagrams. By doing so the receiver understands more layers of information about the data. ...
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This is lovely: "Draw, from memory, the cover of...
John Gall: “First class each semester I hand the students a questionnaire. One of the questions asks the students to draw, from memory, the cover of their favorite book of all time.” more at johngall.blogspot.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
I was sick in bed all weekend and pretty bored so...
At some point this season it will be a complete list of the top teams of the German Bundesliga, probably a series of 15. If you’ve got a favourite team you’d like me to do a poster for let me know :) Data is taken from www.kicker.de via flickr.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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I uploaded the viznote from Mette's session on...
More stuff on flickr if you feel like browsing. via flickr.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
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Analogue vs. digital Round 1: Fuck Photoshop (via...
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January 2011
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Two great articles on visual thinking by...
Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool by Mike Rohde As a kid, I spent hours drawing and sketching ideas that popped into my head. I used drawing as a primary language for capturing thoughts, exploring ideas, and then sharing those ideas. Teachers and mentors encouraged me, helping to sustain sketching as a key skill throughout school and into my professional...
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Beauftifully drawn and great storytelling: Why...
What really sets this video apart from similar handdrawn animated films is the great sound design (listen closely to the small noises, it’s wonderful!) and the really good voice-over - like your grandpa telling you a story. Love it. via vimeo.com Posted via email from Anna Lena’s Blog | Comment »
The desires of a travelling woman
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