How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
Blog Archive
- March 2, 2009: 8 Ways to Explain the Economic Crisis
- There are so many ways to explain things. Words, pictures, words with pictures, moving pictures, moving pictures with voice, just voice, or moving people with voice (movies). A study by Siegel+Gale found that 75% of those surveyed believe complexity played...
- February 12, 2009: Tell Your Friends: See What I Mean Workshops
- I'm speaking at two events in the next month. The first is VizThink, a conference on visual thinking. The talk there will be a short 90min hands-on session. The conference is fantastic and includes many experienced and talented visual...
- January 20, 2009: In Plain English
- I've long been a fan of the couple at Common Craft. They make a series of videos called "In Plain English". In their own words: "Our videos are short, simple and focused on making complex ideas easy to understand. We...
- December 22, 2008: The Way We Work
- A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Entertainment Gathering 2008, a conference founded and organized by TED founder Richard Saul Wurman. One of the highlights of the conference was David Macaulay, the author of The...
- December 1, 2008: How to Draw a Car
- Dave Gray, founder of XPLANE and the VizThink conferences, is experimenting with teaching what he calls visual literacy. As part of that, he is trying to teach people how to express themselves visually and has a video about how to...
- October 23, 2008: Comic Review: Akoha Part 1
- A few weeks ago, I mentioned a few examples of companies using comics to convey an idea or product to their potential customers. One such company is the "social reality game" called Akoha. They use a short comic strip on...
- October 21, 2008: Wordless Diagrams
- I recently moved apartments with my now fiancée Coley. In the process of unpacking, we discovered each others' book collections. While she was probably astonished at the sheer number of graphic novels I had, I was intrigued by many of...
- October 11, 2008: Speaking at October's BayCHI
- If you live or happen to be in the Bay Area, you may be interested attending this month's BayCHI event where I will be speaking about the same topic the book covers. If you'd like a preview of the contents...
- September 25, 2008: Point and Shoot
- Not all comics need to be elaborate 30+ pages. In fact, comics aren't even necessarily in well defined panels and may not contain any words. To use Will Eisner's nomenclature, comics are Sequential Art. Ponoko's Photomake illustrates this brilliantly with...
- September 24, 2008: See What I Mean Dot Org
- If you'd like to tell your friends about this book, and eventually related workshops, there's now a convenient url for you to link to: SeeWhatIMean.org currently links to this book site but will eventually host a schedule of upcoming workshops,...
- September 22, 2008: Comics In Use Everywhere!
- No doubt many of you have heard about the new browser from Google called Chrome. Some of you may have also heard about how Chrome’s features were explained: with a comic drawn by Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics. Google’s...
- July 14, 2008: Why This Book?
- Looking at the history of how this book's idea and motivation came about, it's interesting to see how many of the milestones occurred at design conferences. It all started at the 2005 CHI conference in Portland. Bill Buxton, author of...
