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DRAWINGS FROM THE ECONOMIST’S HUMAN POTENTIAL CONFERENCE

The Economist had me out to their Ideas Economy “Human Potential” conference in New York last week. I gave a talk on Newspaper Blackout and Steal Like An Artist, but I also did some drawings on my iPad during the other talks, and posted them to Twitter as I drew. (Still getting used to drawing live on the iPad — not sure I love it, but I thought I’d experiment.) I’ve cleaned them up a little and collected them here.

Jeff Weiner Nitin Nohria

Sherry Turkle Tony Schwartz

Rosanne Cash Rosanne Cash

Judy McGrath Martha Stewart

Lane Greene Louis Ferrante

Marc Cenedella 

Julie Bernstein 

DRAWING RED LEMONADE AND CURSOR


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A while back I had the pleasure of talking to Richard Nash about his new startup, Cursor, and publishing venture, Red Lemonade. This doodle was something I sent him after we exchanged a few emails.

Aside from my art, this is the work I really love to do: help people tell their stories in pictures and words.

If you care about publishing and you don’t know Richard or his work, do yourself a favor and watch this excellent speech:

drawing of richard nash on the future of book publishing
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TEDMED NOTEBOOK ILLUSTRATIONS

TEDMED illustrations

A few months ago I tag-teamed a sketchnotes illustration project with my friend Mike Rohde for Tribal DDB Worldwide, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer program, and TEDMED 2010. They’d seen our Viznotes booklet for SXSW 2010, and wanted to create something similar. (If you’re interested in reading more about the project, Mike posted a great writeup.)

Here are a few of my illustrations. See more of the work in Mike’s Flickr set →

TEDMED illustrations

TEDMED illustrations

And here are some drawings that weren’t used:

the drawing alphabet

how to draw faces

visual elements

unused drawings

unused drawings

unused drawings

TEDXPENNQUARTER NOTES + DRAWINGS

The great folks who organized TEDxPennQuarter out at The Newseum in Washington, D.C. not only had me out to give a talk of my own (which I’ll post soon), they asked if I’d take some visual notes for them as well. So I did my best — I missed a few speakers, since I had to get into makeup and prepare for my own talk.

I decided to revisit the sticky notes, like I did for TEDxAustin. Here I am showing them off onstage:

Austin Kleon at TEDxPennQuarter
photo by Flickr user Sexy Fitsum

D.C., by the way, was a total blast. Thanks to my friends for showing me around their awesome town.

A few more notes below–you can see the whole set on Flickr.

TEDxPennQuarter David Armano

TEDxPennQuarter Chris McDougall

TEDxPennQuarter Chris Bernard

TEDxPennQuarter Derek Brown

You can see the rest in the full set on Flickr.

VISUAL NOTE-TAKING 101 SXSW PANEL

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Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010

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Back in March, my friends Mike Rohde, Sunni Brown, Dave Gray and I presented a panel to a packed house at the SXSW Interactive conference here in Austin, Texas. Last week, they posted a podcast of the session without visuals – so I spent some time syncing our slides to the audio.

Watch it above, or see the whole thing here: Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010.

Watch a short YouTube video of my faces exercise:

And learn more about visual note-taking:

The coolest artifacts from the panel are the amazing Scout Books that Pinball Publishing had printed for us: read all about them.

I squirreled away a couple of them before we ran out — leave a comment below telling me why you want one okay those were making me feel too guilty that I only have four: how about a link to the coolest thing you’ve seen this week and I’ll pick four winners. Contest ends Monday, May 17th. (Be sure to include your e-mail — it won’t be published.)

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