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Creativity: 10 Ways to Shake Things Up!

melinda carpenter May 29, 2019
  • Take a cold shower

  • This will likely be an unfamiliar experience, allowing you to create new neural connections.

  • Make a new meal without a recipe

    • This will force you to be comfortable without all of the answers in front of you

  • Try a new hairstyle

    • A new change could inspire you!

  • Create a new outfit that you’ve never worn before

    • Mixing and matching will help you form new styles. A new outfit can give you a new vibe, which can inspire confidence.

  • Journal about your day

    • This reflection time will allow you to absorb what you’ve learned throughout the day. Journaling will also allow you to look back on old memories and see patterns in your life.

  • Take a new route that you haven’t taken before

    • This will give you a new perspective. This will take you out of auto-pilot mode, and force you to think in different ways.

  • Rearrange your room or living space

    • This can create a fresh environment and get you out of a routine feeling

  • Ask more questions

    • The more curious you are, the more you will learn.

  • Limit or eliminate social media for a day

    • You can use the extra time gained from eliminating social media to be more productive. You can spend this time in silence. It will likely be an unfamiliar experience.

  • Exercise your body and mind

    • Whether working out, doing yoga or meditating, this will allow your body and mind to relax and take a break from life.

    • Giving your mind a break allows creative ideas to flow naturally.

    Hire me to shake things up for you!

In life, Creativity, About Visual Thinking, How to be More Visual, Visual Thinking Tips Tags creative thinking, creativity, ideas, quotes, TEDx, thinking, Design Thinking, Creative Connections Network, travel, blog, pictures, practice, books, productivity
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Visual Thinking: Visual Notes & Graphic Recording - Short Talks in Tight Spaces

melinda carpenter March 8, 2016

Having a graphic recorder create large-scale visual notes at your event can create quite an impact and make the content way more powerful. Sometimes, there's just not time or space to work at a super large scale. But size alone is not what makes the images so powerful. The power comes from the magic that happens when words and pictures are used together - like carrying a big box with both arms instead of just one.

The image above is one of eight created at TEDxBerkeley last month on 20"x30" foam core board. While much larger than a sketchbook, this size is still much smaller than the standard 4'x8' boards many graphic recorders use. Yet, the image is still quite powerful and creates quite an impact - and the smaller size is much easier to carry around!

Check out the whole set of visual notes from TEDxBerkeley 2016!

In Graphic Recording Tags events, graphic recording, visual notes, visuals, conferences, TEDxBerkeley, TED Talk, TEDx
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Graphic Recording: TEDxBerkeley ~ Steve Wozniak

melinda carpenter March 2, 2015

Graphic recording is full of surprises. You never know who you're going to run into or what they're going to say.  But no matter the speaker or the topic, the process remains the same - listen and draw! 

This image was created just a few days ago at TEDxBerkeley by the last speaker of the day, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple Computers Inc. He had a lot of great stories to share about his times on the Cal campus as a student. He talked about all kinds of random things - shaving cream, pay phones, saltine crackers, and typing, to name a few. All great stories in and of themselves, but far too many for me to capture visually in such a short time. But that doesn't matter. His overarching message was crystal clear - find happiness.

That's what graphic recording is all about - making the big picture clear for everyone, even those not in the room.

In Graphic Recording Tags Events, TEDx, TEDxBerkeley, drawing, Conference, Graphic Recording, synthesis image, illustration, markers, scribing, TED Talk, TEDx Berkeley, visual thinking, visuals, Visual Notes
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Graphic recording...2 years after the fact?!?!

melinda carpenter September 11, 2014

Live graphic recording is great, but so are visuals created before or after the fact. Like this one, which was created earlier this year - 2 years after the original presentation! A fresh visual can breathe new life into an old topic. Not that this topic is old (far from it!) but you get the idea. Visuals simply bring things to life, no matter when they're created.

In Visual Thinking Examples Tags TEDx, visuals, Events, Graphic Recording, Scribing, illustration, post-event
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TEDx Berkeley: Live Recording

melinda carpenter February 23, 2014

Two Saturdays ago, I was busy graphic recording TEDxBerkeley with fellow Bay Area graphic recorder, Melanie Ida Chopko. This was the fifth and largest event held on the UC Berkeley campus, with all 1700 seats sold out!

In Visuals in Use Tags Graphic Recording, Visual Notes, Scribing, TEDx Berkeley, TEDx, Events
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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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