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Telling Visual Stories

People were telling stories with images long before they could write them with words, images we can still see on rocks and in caves all over the world. The invention of writing meant you no longer needed an actual person to explain what was going on, or even images at all. But today visuals are […]

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The Joy of Graphic Recording

Great things happen when you include a graphic recorder at a speaking event or workshop. Comprehension increases, misunderstandings diminish, new perspectives are introduced and participants leave with an engaging and shareable information map that provides them with takeaways long after they’ve gone home. But that’s always surprising is the sheer joy that graphic recording can […]

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Frightened or Funny?

Content marketers know that effective content elicits an emotional response. But you don’t have to spend much time surfing the internet to realize those emotions lean heavily on old standbys like fear, anxiety and schadenfreude. I’ll cop to being as intrigued as anybody about the aging looks of 80s kid TV stars. Still, there are […]

PenSPRA Award of Honor, Cheltenham School Board Strategic Plan Brochure

Cheltenham Strategic Plan Brochure Receives Award of Honor

A brochure I illustrated for the Cheltenham School district has received an award from the Pennsylvania School Public Relations Association. Their press release reads as follows “The CSD Office of Communications and Development is proud to announce its strategic plan brochure has received an Award of Honor from PenSPRA (Pennsylvania School Public Relations Association) in […]

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Don’t Read This Cartoon!

I’m guessing you probably did, though. Cartoons are hard—maybe impossible- to resist. Content marketers want content that can be easily understood and shared and that has a strong visual component and single-panel cartoons fit the bill perfectly. They also have a unique aspect that makes them even more attractive, which is that readers don’t just […]