One of the great joys of Creative Sandbox Retreats is the creative catalyzing sessions we have every morning after breakfast, to get out of our heads and into our bodies. We play improv games and laugh like crazy, which confuses our gremlins, so they wander off, so we can get down to work! One of the games we did this time is called “hashtag.” It’s a variation of “proverbs,” which is basically a word-at-a-time statement, but when the statement is done, the next person says “hashtag,” and the person after that comes up with a hashtag to sum up the statement (er.. tweet?) This was one of our favorites, which had me doubled up laughing for several minutes! 😂
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When we play “proverbs,” the rule is we must stand in a tight circle, and tap our fingers together sagely. When we play “hashtag,” we’ve decided the rule is we must hold our hands in front of us and move our thumbs as if we’re tapping our a tweet on our phones. 😄 We LOVE Playing this game!
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These posters will go into a folder to be pulled out and put on the wall at the next retreat, September 11-15, 2019. (There’s still room for one more if you’d like to join us: link in profile or visit http://bit.ly/2y1M5At)
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 02, 2019 at 10:51AM
Good news! I don’t have to redo the entire thing!!! I was able to create a section that I think I can Photoshop in, saving me from a complete redo. #whew .
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 01, 2019 at 09:06PM
Well, I decided to redo the whole thing. Not because of the spelling errors and smears—those I could have cleaned up in Photoshop—but because I decided to add some icons. So here is the latest iteration of my visual bio for my consultancy website.
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And NOW it’s time for bed. 😊
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 01, 2019 at 07:03PM
Working on another animated “explainer video.” This is my thumbnail sketch storyboard. 🖍
I may work on recording this tomorrow at the retreat. Otherwise, after I get home. .
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Snapshot from My Studio: June 01, 2019 at 01:57PM
One of the things I’ve been working on at Creative Sandbox Retreat #8 is a visual bio for my website. This is the latest draft, rife with smears and spelling errors, all of which I believe can be fixed in Photoshop after I get home (gotta love Photoshop! 👍)
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So I’ll scan it and attempt to clean it up after the retreat, and if I can’t make it acceptable, I’ll draw it all again. 🖍
Such is the life of an artist in the 21st Century! 😉
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 30, 2019 at 12:54PM
Doodling. Because it’s important to make time to play in the creative sandbox. (Even when you’re *not* away on a creativity retreat! 😉)
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 29, 2019 at 05:55PM
At my Spring #creativesandboxretreat, where one of the traditions is hand-lettered door tags for everyone. This year: Neuland names made with Neuland markers by @neulandcom! 😊 I love that bright Spring green color, don’t you? 🖍
When you write over a mark you’ve just made, it creates a darker mark. Use this to your advantage, and create shaded letters, as shown here, by going over the lower half with additional strokes. (Hat tip to @malgosiakostecka for this cool tip! 👌)
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 25, 2019 at 07:33AM
The final chart that emerged from yesterday’s video shoot—what will be an explainer video about LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Slated to publish on Monday to LinkedIn, Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, and of course, my website, http://bit.ly/2HZoMMz! 😊 🖍
Not familiar with LEGO Serious Play? It’s one of the main tools I use in my consultancy, to help companies make ideas visible. But whereas with graphic recording and graphic facilitation I’m typically the one making the ideas visible, with LSP, THEY are the ones making the ideas visible—in 3D! “Thinking with their hands,” literally building ideas with LEGO bricks. 🖍
Stay tuned for the video to see this drawing come to life!
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 20, 2019 at 08:44PM
I recorded a talk by @drsusanbernstein today. That was fun! .
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 19, 2019 at 09:26AM
This went out with today’s LinkedIn post: #weekendwisdom “We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.” -Steven Pinker
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 17, 2019 at 10:37AM
The drawing that accompanied today’s LinkedIn post. Making ideas (in this case, statistics!) visible.
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It gives me great joy to turn statistics into art! 😅
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It gives me great pleasure to figure out how to draw concepts in order to illustrate business-y things!
I get to turn what would otherwise feel pretty dry (for me) into #play! 😄
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Snapshot from My Studio: May 15, 2019 at 09:49AM
I’ve been having fun making ideas visible, creating graphic illustrations to accompany my LinkedIn posts. This one says:
Blindness to unknowns leads to overconfidence, which leads to poor decisions.
The solution: focus on unknowns!
I elaborate in the text post—the visual and the text are designed to complement each other, just like a sketchnote or graphic recording. 😊
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