Lately I’ve been using podcasts to practice my real-time graphic recording skills. Here is the latest installment. In the image above you will see my sketchnotes from the interview between Terry Gross and Regina Spektor on NPR’s Fresh Air. I’ve had a few of Spektor’s songson my iPod shuffle running mix for about a year… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Freakonomics Sketchnotes: The Benefits of Working from Home
The sketchnotes above are from a recent Freakonomics podcast that discusses the potential benefits of working from home. Seems to me that the key thing about working from home is that you are in control (for the most part) of the distractions, whereas at an office you are potentially bombarded by distractions over which you… Continue Reading
Sketchnotes of Fresh Air Interview with Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia about their New Movie: Sleepwalk With Me
I practiced my real-time graphic recording skills recently as I listened to Fresh Air’s host Terry Gross interview Ira Glass and Mike Birbiglia about their upcoming movie: Sleepwalk With Me. Check out the sketch above to see what I came up with (you can click on the image to view a larger version). To listen… Continue Reading
The Cover Up Math Method
One of the projects that I’m working on this summer is developing teaching resources for a set of math apps developed by The Center for Algebraic Thinking. One of those apps, called Cover Up, taught me an approach to solving math problems that I hadn’t used before but found useful. I have outlined the method… Continue Reading
Sketchnotes of the Objective-C Refresher Video from Lynda.com
I’m gearing up for more iOS app development in the near future, and in the pursuit of clean code I decided to start sketchnoting a recent video series from Lynda.com – iOS SDK Essential Training (2012). The sketchnotes above are from the Objective-C Refresher section of the course, which provided a helpful recap of the… Continue Reading
Visual Vocabulary: Ed Emberley Tribute
For this edition of Visual Vocabulary I have deferred to one of the masters of illustration: Ed Emberley. The animal sketches below were drawn using the step-by-step approach found in Emberley’s Make A World – a great resource for artists young and old alike. The sketches below were created with the iPad app Adobe Ideas.… Continue Reading
Vacation: Day 4
This is how I’ve been starting each of my days during this week of vacation in Sunriver. Lots of coffee this week, and lots of Olympics watching. And plenty of sketching too.… Continue Reading
