Saturday, March 7, 2009
Product Review: Wacom Bamboo
I have just purchased the Wacom Bamboo Fun Small and it is amazing -- I can finally doodle up the graphics that I need for presentations, rather than spending hours sifting through clip-art to see if I can find something close to what I need. I'll be posting some examples soon. It is also handy for signing documents before faxing them -- a small bonus that hadn't occurred to me before.
Visual Thinking Graphics
The problem with clip art is that you are limited to expressing the concepts that the creator of the clip art wants you to show (yes, it's a conspiracy). For example, you can't depict starving children if the clip art library only has examples of chubby, happy children eating cotton candy.
You basically need to create your own clip art. Perhaps as a group we can use the copy-left or creative commons approach to build up an underground stream of real-world clip-art.
Here is my first contribution:
You basically need to create your own clip art. Perhaps as a group we can use the copy-left or creative commons approach to build up an underground stream of real-world clip-art.
Here is my first contribution:
Book Review: Back of the Napkin
I just finished reading Dan Roam's book and I have to say that it is pretty awesome. The unique feature of this book is that it presents a rational framework for deciding how to present information (visually) to an audience. The framework is two-dimensional and looks funny but is actually very powerful. In one dimension, you decide whether you want to depict what, how much, when, where, how or why. In the second dimension, you decide between simple/elaborate, quality/quantity, vision/execution, individual/comparison or as-is/change.
I highly recommend this book.
I highly recommend this book.
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