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We just visited our friend’s parents who live in rural Ohio to attend their annual pig roast. The man of the house is an engineer and inventor who decided he wanted to turn a fuel tank into a pig roaster. This is my sketch of the homemade device.

Got some pleasant news a few days ago when I learned my large scale visual notes were being used as a magazine cover illustration.
The backstory:
My friends at ImageThink asked me to represent them by providing Graphic Recording at the March 2010 Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum in Philadelphia.
People at this event shared ideas for finding […]

I am delighted that I will be taking visual notes at the 2010 140 Characters Conference, as I did last year. Only this year, on the first day, I will be creating the notes on an iPad that award winning digital agency R/GA is sponsoring me with.
Since the conference is about the business […]

I was proud to have the opportunity to speak at a press conference at City Hall on the topic of Philadelphia’s request for Google to install an ultra high speed data network here in Philly.
That is Mayor Nutter looking at me as I share my thoughts on why Philly would be an ideal testbed […]

At this month’s VizThink, veteran public speaker, Jonny Goldstein (that’s me), will show you how to use visual thinking to create and deliver a powerful presentation. Afterward, we will head somewhere nearby for some food and drink.
YOU MUST RSVP BEFORE FRIDAY, NOON, SEPT 11, in order to attend the Monday, Sept 14, event. Otherwise you […]

“I’m Outta Here: How Coworking is Making the Office Obsolete” is a kickass book about the burgeoning coworking movement. It’s available right here.
This book is the right thing at the right time for people who are looking for a new way to work—not stuck in a hive of cubicles or isolated at home, but among […]

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Notes from the Rethinking the Library event at P’unk Avenue in Philly.
The place was packed with passionate people, who sent their ideas flying around the room about the unique institution of the American Library.
Panelists included:
Jim Pecora
Maria Falgoust
Sarah Murphy
Moderator:
Nate Hill
Some threads:

The importance of diverse space within libraries (for quiet reading, […]

I love sitting across from someone who nods off on the train. They make perfect models for a quick sketch. This is part of my ongoing series of sketches of people who are using mass transit. So next time you nod off on the train, you may be my next muse.

When my friend Ariel Churi asked me to substitute for him for the first meeting of the Visual Organization and Visual Design class at Parsons School of Design, I jumped at the chance.
We created a bunch of mind maps to get them started on their first task: to create a project which communicates information […]

View from the nosebleed seats, with notes in the margins

Waiting for rush tickets in the lobby.
The two sketches above are from Ira Glass’s appearance at the Kimmel Center in Philly, January 24, 2009. Ira Glass is the executive producer and host of This American Life. Who needs a camera?
Glass gave an entertaining and moving seminar […]