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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY

Stick to the process - it won’t let you down. In the event of coming up with as many quick ideas as possible, there are some that, given a different day, would have won the nomination to be evolved into the most colourful of artwork.
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Sometimes the ideas are just there in the conversation, and they pop up like a gopher in a hole, unsurprised by you just as you’re surprised by them. They practically draw themselves. No it’s like this!

Other days, the conversation is slow, the clouds are heavy, the creative juices are glacial and idea generation requires a concerted effort. And chocolate, caffeine, darts and other habitual dependencies.
So what about some of those ideas that never made it, forever frozen in an archived presentation? Well, every once in a while they cross my path, and they instantly teleport me back to the conversation they came from, which makes me smile, as I’ve had the pleasure of visually collaborating with some loverly people.
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Wizard of Pollution
The idea above was one of many created for #breakfreefromplastic for last year's World Ocean Day.

SECRET APP MAKES LIFE EASY

For a while now, I’ve been using the Carbo app to take a photo of the many hand-drawn sketched ideas in order to solidify the black, and knock out the background.
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It’s pretty useful for popping a quick visual idea in a document, which (like cracking Dad jokes) I do with irrepressible regularity...

This doodle was created on paper for Grant Potter for being generally brilliant.
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Below are the most recent colourful reflections from the Open Visual Thinkery blog. You, dear reader, are free to use these illustrations under a Creative Commons licence!

Greetings from your trauma

Greetings from your trauma
It’s fair to say that it’s only recently that I’ve only begun to understand the impact of losing my hair as a young boy. Even that phrase losing my hair as if it was my own fault, having misplaced it somewhere whilst distracted. It’s a way of avoiding that sharp clinical word - alopecia. We now know that most Alopecia …

Wikipedia is 25!

Wikipedia is 25
Happy Birthday Wikipedia - I've always been a fan! Knowledge curated by humans that I've been dipping into and learning from since it was born. In one of my braver moments, supported by a University initiative in the U.S. called the e-granary, I took an scraped offline version of Wikipedia (it was much smaller back in 2005) and installed it …

4 Stages of Sunrise

4 stages of sunrise
This visual story is taken from The Visual Thinker - Let there be light and is inspired by the words of Manchán Magan.
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