Visual+Work+and+Thinking


 * "Every child is an artist. The** **problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.****"** - Pablo Picasso

Visual practices can enrich our work. This page is a loosely organized overview of visual practices in two related contexts, graphic recording and graphic facilitation. If you are interested in more about the use of visual practices in facilitation, I'm building a related page here: Visual Facilitation Practices

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What is Graphic Recording?
Graphic recording at its core is visually capturing what is happening in a group or presentation. It is part of a large set of visual practices which use images as part of group processes, which includes graphic facilitation, collaborative graphics work, etc. (To learn more, see []) It can be used as a literal recording or it can be used as a visual element of a specific group and/or facilitation process.

What is Graphic or Visual Facilitation?
Graphic or Visual Facilitation is the intentional use of visual practices, including drawing by an individual or by members of the group to support the group's process. Some of the intentions behind Visual Facilitation include:
 * the value of people creating a shared artifact of their work/learning/experience
 * the power of "making my mark"
 * using visuals as sense-making tools
 * using the negotiability of images to think together when words (written/spoken) may block us.

How others have described this set of practices

 * [|Chip Walter]'s [|animated white board description]

How does this relate to the larger set of thinking around visual thinking?

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Practitioner Groups

 * [|Rossland, BC July 2010 Facebook Page] (Which is now the online convening place for alumni of all our workshops over the years)
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 * The Center for Graphic Facilitation []
 * GF Facebook group []
 * A group some of us started after a workshop []

Examples, Explanations
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 * Examples of my work [].
 * Nancy's Slideshare (with lots of visual decks)
 * A set of examples from an International Forum of Visual Practitioner's event, see []
 * Hand drawn maps []
 * A graphic about graphic facilitation practice []
 * Allison Crow's great introduction to visual thinking []
 * Dave Gray on visual thinking and management []
 * Graphic Facilitation templates from Tobi Johnson []
 * One workshop participant's thoughts on the value of graphics []
 * Visual captures from an online event []
 * @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfdimE8WRds
 * A conference graphic recording capture digitized then hyperlinked to additional content by Avril Orloff []
 * Sita Magnusen's capture of a workshop I facilitated []

Resources
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 * Visual Thinking and Visual Practitioner books: []
 * 7 Tips for Graphic Recording []
 * Great Graphic Facilitation Handout from a 2009 workshop by [|Martha McGinnis] and [|Julie Stewart][]
 * Ideas for visual icebreakers []
 * Periodic Table of Visualization Methods [|http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html#]
 * Visuals for Change []
 * [|Brandyfesto]- Brandy Agerbeck' visual practice manifesto
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 * Beck Tench's Course []
 * Visual Facilitation Workbook [|https://www.salto-youth.net/downloads/toolbox_tool_download-file-1430/VF-cookbook-web.pdf?]

Graphic Recording/Facilitation Sites

 * [|http://www.visualpractitioner.org] (join their mailing list! Join them!)
 * The Center for Graphic Facilitation []
 * Links to other visual practitioner sites []
 * Papershine has some great examples in his blog and in the resources area of the site http://www.papershine.com

**Books about Visual Thinking and Graphic Facilitation**

 * Nancy's [|visual bookstore]
 * __ Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation __ by Patrick Van Der Pijl (Author), Justin Lokitz (Author), Lisa Kay Solomon (Author), Erik van der Pluijm (Designer), Maarten van Lieshout (Designer)
 * __ Drawn Together through Visual Practice __ by Brandy Agerbeck (Author, Editor), Kelvy Bird (Author, Editor), Sam Bradd (Author, Editor), Jennifer Shepherd (Author, Editor)
 * __ Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality __ by Nora Herting (Author), Heather Willems (Author)
 * __ From the Front of the Room: Notes on Facilitation for Experienced Practitioners __ by Dan Newman (Author)
 * __ Tapping for Visual Practitioners: Color Edition __ (From Chaos to Calm) (Volume 1) by Jill Greenbaum Ed.D.
 * __ The Life of A Graphic Facilitator __ by Alfredo Carlo and Irene Coletto
 * __ The Idea Shapers: the power of putting your thinking into your own hands __ by Brandy Agerbeck
 * __ The Idea Shapers: the power of putting your thinking into your own hands __ by Brandy Agerbeck


 * __ El Malabarista - Aprenda a liderar con 5 manzanas __ by Jose Luis Anzizar


 * __ Picture Your Business Strategy: Transform Decisions with the Power of Visuals __ by Christine Chopyak
 * __ We've Got to START Meeting Like This!: Creating inspiring meetings, conferences, and events __ by Dana Wright
 * __ The Meeting Book __ by Helen Chapman
 * __ Visual Note Taking for Educators __ by Wendi Pillars
 * __ Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity __ by David Sibbet
 * __ Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management, and Organization Change __ by David Sibbet
 * __ Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance __ by David Sibbet


 * __ Creativity for Everybody __ by Kathryn P. Haydon, Jane Harvey


 * __ ad hoc visualisieren: denken sichtbar machen __ by Malte von Tiesenhausen


 * __ Co-Create!: Das Visualisierungs-Buch __ by Mathias Weitbrecht

Research on Visual Thinking

 * Jang, J., & Schunn, C. D. (2012). Physical design tools support and hinder innovative engineering design. Journal of Mechanical Design, 134(4), 041001-1-9. [|http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/papers/JangSchunnJMD2012.pdf]
 * Linsey, J., Tseng, I., Fu, K., Cagan, J., Wood, K., & Schunn, C. D. (2010). A study of design fixation, its mitigation and perception in engineering design faculty. Journal of Mechanical Design, 132(4), 041003-1-12. [|http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/papers/JMD041003.pdf]
 * Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2009). The role and impact of mental simulation in design. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 327-344. [|http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/papers/Christensen-Schunn-2009.pdf]
 * Christensen, B. T., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). The relationship of analogical distance to analogical function and pre-inventive structure: The case of engineering design. Memory & Cognition, 35(1), 29-38 [|http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/papers/B&S-analogy.pdf]
 * And here is some closely related work: Chan, J., Fu, K., Schunn, C. D., Cagan, J., Wood, K., & Kotovsky, K. (2011). On the benefits and pitfalls of analogies for innovative design: Ideation performance based on analogical distance, commonness, and modality of examples. Journal of Mechanical Design, 133, 081004-1-11.
 * [|http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn/research/papers/Chanetal2011.pdf]

Visual Thinking Web Tour
(a few sites with interesting visual aspects)
 * Visual Social Reporting [|http://www.flickr.com/photos/43539660@N02/sets/72157625424419979/with/5260161735/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Building an infographic <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2011/05/12/some-behind-the-scenes-the-2-0-adoption-council-salary-survey-graphic/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuning visuals with stories <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__[]__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visually augmenting a blog post <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.cooper.com/journal/2011/04/great_creative_partnership_pai.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Listening and visualizing a music remix <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://daftpunk.themaninblue.com/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Story of graphic recording at an event <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|https://www.vie.unu.edu/learninghub/2010/cop-for-gf/unu-brings-graphic-recording-to-online-educa-berlin/__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (this link is now dead but you can find a copy thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine[| here].) and of a drawing session AT an event <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbedfeat/sets/72157626715365424/with/5717407893/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One practitioners toolset <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|http://www.flickr.com/photos/wernerkuper__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pecha Flickr - images and story telling <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and another from Alan, on photography which also speaks deeply to visual practices <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/nv11/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Multimodality is not just about the visual. See this article on musicians and scientists <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[]

Visual Thinking Bloggers

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 * Dave Gray / Xplane []
 * Mindmapping []
 * Visual Thinking (no longer maintained, but interesting archives) []
 * David Sibbet <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 20px;">[]
 * Rachel Smith on Digital Visual Facilitation []
 * Giulia Forsythe []

**Slide Decks on Visual Thinking/Practices**
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Viz Think Podcasts and Other Videos About Visual Thinking
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 * Brandy Agerbeck on visual thinking practices []
 * Lance Dublin - Implementing Visual Tools in your Business []
 * List of VizThink Podcasts [] and recordings []
 * [|[Podcast Visual Knowledge Management]]
 * [|[Podcast Thinking in 3D: Using Kinesthetic Modeling]]
 * [|Podcast #14: Collaborative Knowledge Visualization with Martin Eppler]
 * [|Drawing Lessons]
 * [|Podcast #3: Graphic Recording & Facilitation]
 * Imagethink on Graphic Recording []
 * Brandy Agerbeck on Graphic Recording []
 * Bigger Picture tutorials on YouTube [], [], [], []I, [],
 * [] Ivan Brunetti []
 * AlphaChimp Videos [|http://www.alphachimp.com/video/#]

Electronic Visual Work
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 * How to design and build hand drawn visual videos from Steven Wright []
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 * Chip talks about an iPad application []

Drawing Skills Sites

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 * Karl Gude's videos on how to draw []
 * Bigger Picture's YouTube Videos [|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5DJC6LaOCI]
 * Brandy Agerbeck's visual tutorials []
 * Dave Gray on how to draw a stick figure []
 * Zeb's drawing lessons []
 * Rachel Smith's Grove Lettering Workshop recording []
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 * Austin Kleon on [|How to Draw a Face]
 * Jeannel King []

Sketchnotes as a Sub Practice

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Icon and Image Collections and Examples
> http://jeannelking.com/resources/for-graphic-facilitation/ and > http://jeannelking.com/?s=good+enough+drawing+tutorial
 * Nancy's Icon Collectionhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/+NancyWhite/albums/5598564590659048849
 * [|Michael Erickson's Icons] http://www.fullcirc.com/about/visual-and-graphic-work/michael-ericksons-graphic-icon-library/
 * <span style="color: #006699; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-22548964/stock-vector-sketch-icons-set.html
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 * http://www.pinterest.com/slls01/graphic-recording-facilitation-for-rosviz/
 * From Jeannel King
 * http://www.developmentart.com/catalog.htm for images for those working in international development)
 * Another great one []
 * Patti Dobrowolski http://pattidobrowolski.com/product/free-icon-guide/



Ted Talks for Practicing Graphic Recording:
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 * Chip Heath: Switch []
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taylor Mali What teachers make [] (3 minutes, but a more visually challenging riff!)
 * Gever Gully on on Tinkering (under 5 minutes) []
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|Gever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do] (under 10 minutes) http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smiling <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://bit.ly/mBnSN9__]
 * Matt Cutts on trying something for 30 days [] (under 4 minutes) - nice and easy.
 * Laura Tice, Say Thank You [] (under 4 minutes)
 * Carolyn Porco Life on Saturn []
 * Birke Baehr (TEDx Asheville) What is wrong with our food system [|https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks#p/c/B5352CE949678005/1/F7Id9caYw-Y] (5 minutes)
 * Jonathan Schenker Video games and education[|https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks#p/c/B5352CE949678005/2/auP-eq17U1g]
 * Miranda Norlin Social Justice Through Music [|https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks#p/c/B5352CE949678005/10/LS-h3gKhlTk] (6 minutes)
 * Cameron Sinclair, the refugees of boom and bust [] (3 minutes)
 * Julian Treasure on 5 Ways to Listen Better [] (just under 7 minutes)
 * Peter Lovatt on Dance Psychology[| http://youtu.be/nDC7Jpf8f4E] (20 minutes, but lots of lovely visual streams I can imagine!)

Visuals and Meetings

 * Dr. Martin Eppler's short video on [|visualization in management meetings] and [|visualization for knowledge sharing]
 * Flip chart tips [|here], [|here], and ...

Visuals and Person Centered Planning
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 * Image examples and inspirations []
 * Accessibility Icons []
 * Graphic Facilitation Tutorial for PCP []

Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation Workshops

 * Nancy's Graphic Recording / Facilitation Workshop general description
 * RosViz Workshops (Ask Nancy or [|Michelle] for 2015 dates!) - notes from 2010 here.2015 here: []
 * [|Lynn Carruther's and Emily Shepard's workshop]
 * [|Brandy Agerbeck's "Lab"]
 * Boot Camps by [|Michelle Boos-Stone]
 * [|Crowley & Co workshops]
 * Christina Merkley <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #559448; font-family: arial,helvetica,hirakakupro-w3,osaka,'ms pgothic',sans-serif;">http://www.shift-it-coach.com/training/fundamentals/
 * Graphic Footprints workshop <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #559448; font-family: arial,helvetica,hirakakupro-w3,osaka,'ms pgothic',sans-serif;">[]
 * Dan Roan's "[|Napkin Academy]"
 * Avril Orloff does [|occasional workshops]
 * [|Sabine Soeder d]oes workshops in Europe

Artifacts from Past Sessions

 * How I slowed down blogging and started drawing on walls - session at NorthernVoice 2008
 * [|Graphic Facilitation and Visual Thinking]
 * Drawing Pictures Together Online Over a Distance (live event Jan 16, 2008 for FLNW08)
 * GK3 2007 Graphic Recording 101 Workshop Prep and photos from the graphic recording 101 session at GK3 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec 2007 []
 * Integrating Visual Practices into Whole System Change Methods (a workshop from http://www.nexusforchange.org 2008)
 * Online Visual Jams
 * February 25th report []
 * [|CSIR May 2011 Workshop Page]

Offline

 * Water based markers, preferably with chisel tips, like Mr. Sketch unscented or if you have a bigger budget, [|Neuland] (I love their Big Ones) or [|Charters markers] from The Grove.
 * Tombo brush markers
 * Chalk or soft pastels like Faber-Castell soft pastels or Dick Blick's
 * Plastic to lay down for collecting chalk dust, ideally has painters tape attached (available in the USA - Easy Mask Tape and Drape)
 * Black sharpies (thick chisel or thin) for lettering
 * Grey tone markers for shadow work
 * Painters tape to put charts on walls without damaging wall surfaces
 * mat knife to cut large paper
 * Rolls of large paper
 * tissues for smearing chalk
 * pencil, pencil sharpener and eraser
 * white self stick address labels to cover over mistakes (boo boo labels)
 * ziplock bags to store pens (so they don't dry out)
 * Wax crayons
 * Oil Pastels (less flake, more mess than chalk)
 * Pan Pastels
 * Wax Crayons
 * Paper - I like 48 inch wide 20 lb signwriter bond. I buy it locally in Seattle at Artist and Craftsman supply or in Kelowna, British Columbia at CanCadd, contact: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Jamie:1.800.605.3355 or Cell: 1.250.870.3668

**Post Production Resources**

 * Scanning large charts []
 * Cleaning up digital photos of charts - Rich Chu in LA - ask Nancy for email
 * Tutorial on cleaning up digital photos []

**Environmentally Friendly Foam Core (for portable walls)**

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 * Biodegradable foam core []
 * More alternatives at []

**Sources of Offline Art Supplies**

 * [|http://www.dickblick.com]
 * http://www.grove.com (watch for their 20% off sale in June)
 * Neuland []
 * Pan Pastels [|http://www.panpastel.com/retail.html#wa]

Online Tools
Mindmapping
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 * How to digitally clean up images of charts from Rachel Smith []
 * Digital Facilitation blog from Rachel Smith []

Group Online Visualization Software

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**iPad Drawing Apps**

 * Brushes
 * Paper by 53
 * cheat sheet []
 * Sketchbook Pro
 * NoteShelf
 * Procreate
 * Wasabi Paint
 * Inspire Pro
 * Skitch
 * Penultimate
 * My Brushes

Tags

 * [|visual_thinking]
 * [|visual_blogs] (thanks to suggestions from my twitter friends. )
 * [|graphic_recording]
 * [|graphicfacilitation]