“Here we are now, entertain us!” sang Nirvana in their hit song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released in November of 1991. 30 years later, audiences want to be entertained more than ever. Still, some businesses worry that an entertaining message will be taken less seriously. At Breakthrough Visuals we think even serious messages should be […]
If you want your webinar or online course to stand out, you need to show your audience more than talking heads and title cards. Your information may be valuable, but without engaging visuals it’s hard to hold people’s attention. All too often, even when presenters do use images, they’re generic ones that don’t reinforce the […]
It’s common for people going into a visual thinking workshop to worry that they can’t draw. And at first glance, it may well look like drawing is a big part of visual thinking. But the truth is that anyone who can draw letters and numbers has all the skills they need to be an effective […]
Cyber Safe: A Dog’s Guide to Internet Safety, a children’s book which I designed and illustrated, is now available on Amazon! Young readers will love reading the tips a friendly dog named Lacey gives her cat friend Gabbi to help stay safe online. Each page combines comics and infographics, which in addition to being two […]
In a recent NPR interview an expert on Artificial Intelligence was asked if, in a world of driverless taxis, cashier-less grocery stores and even robot-generated news stories, is there anything machines can’t do? He replied that AI is good at performing tasks that are predictable but not ones that involve the unexpected. Robots, it turns […]
Drexel University’s Philadelphia Autism Project asked us to graphic record their virtual conference, a 5-day affair from November 9-13. We recorded 3 hour-long sessions each day and also created separate images to sum up that day’s theme. All the work was created live on Zoom and were also simultaneously live-streamed on the Autism Project’s Facebook […]
When the shutdowns began in March it was impossible to believe that coronavirus would still keep us from going about our normal activities for more than a month or so. Surely by May, June at the latest, people would once again fill offices, restaurants, schools, sports stadiums and convention centers. Now, on the threshold of […]
One advantage of online conferences is that they often include participants who wouldn’t have been able to travel to a live event. On the other hand, when people spend time and money to gather in an actual place they also tend to stick around. Since participants can exit Zoom rooms with the click of a mouse, it’s common for virtual […]
FAIMER(The Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research), along with CraftNOW Philadelphia hosted an international forum on the theme of Connecting Healers and Makers on March 25, 2020. Originally scheduled as a live event, it was held in cyberspace due to the world-wide coronavirus pandemic quarantine. Despite the last-minute switch, a 100-some […]
If you’re holding your conference or meeting online because of the current health emergency, graphic recording makes more sense than ever. For participants stuck at home, live visuals are a wonderful way to enhance engagement and create excitement. With a tablet and a WiFi connection, graphic recorders can work much as they do with markers on paper […]
