|
 |
|
 |
Graphic facilitator Brandy Agerbeck creates conceptual maps of conversations. Since 1996, her drawing and thinking skills have facilitated groups in finding clarity and understanding their work. Brandy has worked with groups from 2 to 1000, across industries, creating images to help people navigate the complex world around them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
October 2007 Archive Tuesday, October 30, 2007Tube MigrationA flock of mailing tubes just took residence in my office closet. They will live comfortably in my closet. We have a symbiotic relationship. Every time I work a graphic facilitation gig, I take one out into the world. They hold my paper and later my finished drawings. I help them spread their population.  Mock-nature-show aside, this is a great day. I order my mailing tubes from Uline in sets of 25. It feels darn good to run out of tubes and the need to replenish the supply for the next 25 projects. Better yet, when I ordered the last 25 I was in my old apartment, where I didn't have a good space to store them. They were very precariously stacked on a high shelf in a closet. They jutted out horizontally, barely balanced. Thankfully, they never tumbled. But it was a lousy solution. Happily, they have a much better resting place in the new apartment. Ah, progress... posted at 11:51 AM Thursday, October 25, 2007From The New York Times:An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play By BENEDICT CAREY Published: October 23, 2007 Colleague and good friend Lynn Carruthers sent this article to me. We both make maps of meetings and are often on event where many mornings start with a "What was on your mind this morning?" exercise. This article supports our anecdotal evidence that "sleeping on it" is good. "We think what's happening during sleep is that you open the aperture of memory and are able to see this bigger picture," said the study's senior author, Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist who is now at the University of California, Berkeley. He added that many such insights occurred "only when you enter this wonder-world of sleep."I'm a eight-hours-a-night-er. I'm very pro-sleep for good mental functioning. G'night and good sleep! posted at 9:54 PM Wednesday, October 24, 2007Work & WearMichelle Boos-Stone, fellow/past IFVP Board member sent me a gift to the IFVP Conference to have a great time in her (much-missed) absence. Among the toys were a great new tool - TUL pens! I didn't have a moment to check these out until today. These are snazzy! I strung mine on a ball chain:  That's the first and last time you'll see those worn as a choker. But at the longer length, I think it'll work great for when I'm journaling at events. Michelle gave me the 12 pack and there are good "Brandy" colors. The fuscia, orange, yellow, lime green and bright blue are the best. The tips are great. A fine point when using the tip, a nice wide line when used at an angle:  They are permanent markers - they bleed through and I'm not a big fan of the smell. But those things come with the territory with that type of pen. They are less smelly and less bleed-y than Sharpies. And though I adore my Sharpies, these TULs may be great for carrying in my bag for lectures and the library. When I looked up TUL's website, I enjoyed the humor of the graphologist video. And checking out the products I remembered something... Sure enough, TUL markers were designed in a collaboration between Office Max and Chicago's Gravity Tank! I had an interview with them awhile back. They showed me the dry erase markers. I haven't worked with them, but I was impressed that they are wearing their smartypants. ___ I should be taking my TULs first to my Chicago Humanities Festival lectures and later to San Francisco for the VizThink conference in January! posted at 10:33 PM
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
