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Visual Thinking: Be More Visual Video Series

melinda carpenter August 23, 2015

"Be More Visual" is a video series that's all about inspiring you to strengthen your visual thinking skills and showing quick ways to do so. Learn more about visual thinking at www.OneSquigglyLine.com This video show a simple visual thinking exercise that can be a great warm-up for creative thinking work, too.

Here's a simple and quick visual thinking exercise that can be used as a warm up for creative work, too. Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel (One Squiggly Line) for other other videos related to visual thinking and creativity!

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A visual thinking business that uses pictures to keep things clear, simple, & fun...in blogs, too!

Visual Thinking:

Words and pictures used together to engage the whole brain and turn information into knowledge that can lead to wisdom and action.

It's about communication, not art!

Graphic Recording:

Large-scale visual notes drawn live, in real-time, usually in color.

Visual notes:

A catch-all term for notes of any size created with a mixture of words and pictures, and may or may not be created live.

Sketchnotes:

Small-scale visual notes drawn in real-time. They may be created live or from audio or video files. My sketchnotes are usually black & white.

Graphic facilitation:

Facilitation of a meeting through the use of visuals. Often involves the use of templates and worksheets. Popular for problem solving, brainstorming, goal-setting, and strategy sessions.

Synthesis images:

Illustrations created to simplify complex information, drawn in the style of graphic recording or sketchnotes. Synthesis images are usually in color and generally created from print materials (like a company report or brochure).

Graphic Illustrations:

Simple, stylized drawings (including icons) created to represent an idea, concept, or information.

Other Illustration:

Drawings done in a variety of styles with varying degrees of complexity for a variety of reasons to depict pretty much anything.

Lettering:

A variety of unique, original lettering styles drawn by hand and designed to complement and add impact to the words.

Sketch Animation:

Short animations made from hand-drawn illustrations, generally to inform or educate.

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A visual thinking business that uses hand-drawn pictures to make things clear, simple, & fun

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