SWEET PROJECT FOR TATE

This was a recent Synthesis Wall created for an event for TATE held at the Tate Modern. It was concerned with tracking and segmentation of their customers. 

 

Designing Out Crime

I was fortunate to be able to Scribe for the Home Secretary Jaqui Smith for the Design Council's "Designing Out Crime" programme launch.


 

TRACKING THE CONVERSATION

Here is a panel from day two of a conversation to help a large rail network understand and design communications about their vision for the network.

Design of the Times

DOTT07 Scribing

I have been fortunate to be able to help capture and graphically facilitate some of the conversation that led to the successful DOTT 07 project in the North East of England. I was there at the start when the project was kicked off and the structure was being set and it was nice to be invited back to capture a conversation at the end of the project and where it might go next. Cornwall DOTT perhaps?

 

 

Local Council Scribing

Wow, it's been a long time since I have updated the old Blog. That's what having another baby will do to you! Anyway I thought I'd catch up and show some examples of Scribing from since I last posted until now and also fill in a little bit about what has been going on with various stuff.

This Scribing was made earlier in the year in March, just before the baby arrived. It's for a local council and their brainstorming to secure some funding from a pot of money that has been made available. Luckily I don't have to have a super sharp memory, I can just read the Scribing - Hey whatdayaknow, I can actually look at something that was made six month ago and my memory is triggered of the conversation, what a great tool Scribing and Graphic Facilitation is if I say so myself! See potential clients there can't be a better advert than that. I use this stuff myself!

 

Damian Hughes Liquid Thinker

I recently had the good fortune to work with a really great speaker named Damian Hughes. You can visit his website here. http://liquidthinker.com It was the first time I had worked with him in this capacity and I really enjoyed the session. Damian is a motivational speaker and has some great stories to tell,which really focus the group on personal success motivation, leadership and culture change.

The great thing when Scribing for Damian is that he uses very visual language, rich with metaphor and character. This language is easier to Scribe. I particularly like the fact that Damian uses anything from science experiments to sporting achievements with a bit of Las Vegas thrown in for good measure.


 

PENS


I took this photo of my pens the other day. The sunlight was streaming through on a brisk winters day. Juicy colours!

SURVEY COMPUTING AND FUN SHOCKER


I made these cartoons a while ago for an annual conference on Survey Computing. They didn't go with them in the end. I think I frightened them actually. Remember Kids Surveys and Fun don't mix!

survey computing cartoon

Enterprising week for students

It's Enterprise Week here at the moment. Yesterday I Scribed and helped to facilitate a workshop for Christchurch University's business students. The day was as much about 'Enterprise' as it was about demonstrating a different way of working.

 

In the introduction Tim, the facilitator, mentioned that good presentations didn't need 50 inch plasma screens and dancing elephants to help them. This was a good excuse to draw a dancing elephant. I don't know if he throws these out because he knows i'll catch them or what but it's always good fun to inject a bit of humour into the Scribing, it really anchors the meaning to a memorable image.

A bit of word play around the definition of 'Enterprise'. It seems I have inadvertently opted for a circus theme. Yikes!

This following piece of Scribing captures the Facilitators recap on what Enterprise means. I couldn't resist a Star Trek reference. I am sure this must be the image that pops into people's minds when they think of the word.

 

 

 


The final part of the day was for the students to use what they had learned during the day and pitch an idea to a professional panel. Each of the four groups had to generate ideas around innovative products and services for the over 60s. Some of the brainstorming ideas were a lot of fun. I captured two 'crazy ideas' from each teams flip charts as well as their pitch idea.

sex in a can scribing

I did ask the students what 'Sex in a Can' looked like, nobody could really tell me so I thought of an enormous baked bean jacuzzi and an elderly couple. Then I thought i'd better stop. I was intrigued to understand just what use an everlasting wig would be. Maybe one can leave it as a family 'hairloom' (Dad joke alert)! Achtung!

robot cat scribe graphic facilitation

I was happy to find Roobarb from Roobarb and Custard has somehow pegged it onto the drawing. I can hear the frantic guitars now! 

 

A day of Gregorian Chanting

I recently Graphically Facilitated a day of Gregorian Chanting in Canterbury's Orange Street Music Club. I scribed a morning and an afternoon session.

This was the first time that I had Scribed for a music related topic. It was challenging in a number of ways but mainly because the audience consisted of a majority of people that had some experience of Gregorian Chanting and actually singing it. It was literally preaching to the choir. I alas, was the Choirboy without the hymn sheet. Never-the-less, I managed to capture something and even have some fun with it.

 

 

The Orange Street Music Club has lots of portraits of Icons adorning its walls. I thought Elvis and Marlon would make unconventional but quite good monks.




The event was organised and facilitated by our associate facilitator Tim Le Lean. The morning session was led by Professor Philip Duffy from Hope University Liverpool, who kindly stepped into the shoes of Mary Berry CBE the noted musicologist and choral conductor to explain the history and of Gregorian chant This was followed by an afternoon of chanting for the 30 or so participants.The afternoon session was led by Angela Voss and was about the Renaissance humanist philosopher and astrologer Marsillio Ficino. He was responsible for mapping the planets in the solar system and their various qualities to an internal system inside humans, relating to music. He called this 'The music of the Spheres'.