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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.

I just returned from a powerful conference: The Ripple Effects of Visual Practice, IFVP 2010.

(Photo by Lynn Carruthers)
The conference marked the 15th year of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners, and met in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco. The hotel where the conference unfolded is appropriately across the street from Oracle and […]

Capturing moments at IFVP Conference 2010

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 excited to be the graphic recorder at Supernova Forum 2010, a conference which “…explores the transformation of computing, communications, business, and society in the Network Age. ” It will be a delightful challenge to translate the ideas bouncing around the event into pictures.
Speakers include the always stimulating and provocative Danah Boyd, Jeff Jarvis, […]

Just got back from a week in San Diego where my wife was running a half marathon.
If you are ever in San Diego, I highly recommend that you walk from Ocean Beach to Point Loma. Stunning coves accessorized with schools of surfers bobbing offshore.
I drew this looking north from Point Loma.

Have you ever been in the midst of a lousy situation and gone, “Man, if I’d just negotiated differently a few months ago, I would not be in this mess” We negotiate every day, with ourselves, our spouses, our kids, our business partners. When I want to understand things better, I usually start doing […]

(link to the set of SketchNotes)
Above is a slideshow of SketchNotes I created at day 1 of the 2010 NYC 140 Characters Conference.
Jeff Pulver assembled an amazing roster of people to speak at the conference, from NBC’s Ann Curry, to MC Hammer, to Jay Rosen.
They, and many other speakers, discussed the implications of what Pulver […]

Dave Martorana was kind enough to let me play around with the SketchBook Pro App on his shiny new iPad.
This was all done with my fingers. While it was fun, it is highly limited.
Limitations:
1) Not pressure sensitive—that means you have no control of your line weight in real time. This is caused […]

I created these illustrations for a video that promotes Philadelphia as the perfect testbed for the google high speed fiber initiative. The video will go live on Friday, but I thought I’d get them up ahead of time. To find out more about the public-private partnership in Philly to promote the City of Firsts […]