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  • 2013 in Review

    Thank you for reading my blog this year. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would…

  • Fonts Finds in NYC

    I kept my eye out for interesting fonts on a recent trip to NYC. I found the tried and true: The NYC Metro signage was created in the 1960s and while Helvetica was not originally the official typeface according to the book Helvetica and the New York City Subway System, it became so.  Gary Hustwit‘s…

  • Ode to a Sketchbook: Excerpts

    Building a visual library takes time and practice.  This week I finished a sketchbook of experiments, dual coding listening, and active learning. Through the process, I am realizing that I notice what I notice, and that’s not everything that’s passing through my ears or in front of my eyes.  Flipping through the work/play of the…

  • Sketchnotes are Fantastic

    Austin Kleon‘s recommended reading list in his book Steal Like an Artist continues to yield real gems.  Lynda Barry’s What It Is is the first from Austin’s list that I read and I loved it.  Sketchnotes by Mike Rohde is next on the list. Here’s my sketchnote of what resonates with me from Mike’s book (plain…