Letterpress League update – May
We’re meeting at Rhizome Cafe on Tuesday May 28th. New faces welcome! We’re very friendly. It’s a great place to hear about presses for sale, upcoming events, and connect with a growing number of Vancouver printers and designers. We have a calendar project underway and plans to join the 2013 Wayzgoose fair. Find out more about ...
Facilitation Resources – visualizing a Community of Practice
To improve a practice, it’s good to collaborate with others. The Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at the University of British Columbia uses the concept of “Communities of Practice” to support faculty, staff and students. The convenors of various Communities of Practice at UBC gather regularly. I joined them as a graphic recorder as they ...
Grandview Woodland Food Connection logo
The Grandview Woodland Food Connection is an important food security group in East Vancouver. They connect people in the community to affordable and healthy food, while building a safer food system for everyone. They’re so busy doing awesome projects that their logo of a tree was out of date. I was happy to pitch in ...
Decoda Literacy Solutions and Graphic Recording
Literacy is more than just reading and writing. In this graphic recording visual, Decoda Literacy Solutions convened a cross-sector gathering in March 2013 to discuss a BC Workforce Literacy and Essential Skills Strategy. Together, literacy and essential skills help people in every aspect of their lives – from decision making, participation, civic engagement, workplace safety and ...
Tangerini Farm and a story of Community Supported Agriculture
Tangerini’s Spring Street Farm is a 67-acre working family farm in Millis, Mass. Laura, Charlie, Emilio and Charlie Jr. Tangerini needed an illustration that would explain their farm’s activities. The first thing I learned that for this farm, growing food is just a starting point. The land is part of the Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust (MLCT). ...
Adding visuals with graphic recording templates
There’s a graphic facilitation/ graphic recording technique that lets me be in two places at once. It’s called template work. I wasn’t able to join the Surrey Welcoming Communities event in person, and we all wanted visuals to complement the facilitation at this cross- cultural, multi agency gathering. I proposed a custom, graphic recording template. ...
Uppercase magazine profile
I’m a big fan of print and especially magazines. Last year I discovered Uppercase magazine from Calgary, AB. It’s a celebration of the ‘creative and curious’ and has a beautiful look and feel. I’m a subscriber (helping support independent publishing) and um, I’m profiled in the latest one. You can read ...
Zero Waste infographics for the CCPA
My new infographic for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-BC shows how Zero Waste policies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create green jobs. The CCPA-BC office has released a brand new report detailing statistics and recommendations for how we can shift from linear waste systems to closed loop systems. Linear waste is the usual ...
Embracing Diversity – graphic recording and dialogue
The Fraser Basin Council in Williams Lake hosted a forum on diversity, multiculturalism and anti-racism. I brought graphic recording to support their discussion and dialogue. This diversity forum covered a lot of ground. Participants talked about vocabulary and ‘words that hurt’. Iris from PeerNet BC facilitated great discussions about systems of power and privilege that ...
Drawing for a superhero
I got a call from a superhero. I couldn’t see the cape over the phone, but it was easy to picture. Sarah Jamieson has a big story to tell. She’s a performance coach by day, an ultra athlete, and is motivated to fundraise a million dollars – all by the age of 35. Sarah was ...
