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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 […]

I’m really getting into sketching people as I flit around on mass transit. More TransitSketches here.

I love taking mass transit—subways in particular, but ferries, buses, trains, I dig all these modes of travel. Part of the appeal is all the people arrayed in front of me as models for my sketchy purposes. I thought I’d start documenting these sketches that I make; here are the first installments. Quick little things, […]

(Jonny Goldstein doing his Evard Munch impersonation at the Reichstag)
I just got back from a brief trip to Germany to visit a relative. Look, I’m Jewish, so it’s no shock that the German brand does not resonate totally positively for me. I had a kind of multi-pronged discomfort with brand Germany that I have never […]

I just ate this.