Bryan Mathers

Potatoes Grown in Ireland

This tasty little visual story is about the types of potato grown in Ireland in the last couple of centuries.…

3 weeks ago

Montaigne and the Open Web

Here's another little visual absorption from the Reclaim Open blog-a-thon, relating to a blog post by Doug Belshaw. At the top of…

4 weeks ago

My website is a junk drawer

This week I'm tuning into Reclaim Open to try and make some visual sense of it. I really resonate with…

4 weeks ago

Curious Intelligence

Prepping for a Visual Thinking workshop at DCU in Dublin last month (part of a conference entitled "Education after the…

9 months ago

Eh? Aye!

I'm as curious about AI as the next guy. Coding? Oh my goodness, I wish that had been around when…

9 months ago

Open Education at a Crossroads

I’ve really enjoyed capturing keynotes and conversations live. It involves being playfully curious about what’s being communicated, and wondering how…

11 months ago

Art vs. Idea

I met Grayson Perry at an event once. When he was asked what is art? He responded by saying that…

1 year ago

A Typology of Interpersonal Recognition

Back in the old days of social media, h/t was a thing. (I remember having to ask what it meant...)…

1 year ago

The Meaning of Recognition

I think in the early days of thinking about open credentialing, I got fixated on the credential part. The proof…

1 year ago

How you made them feel

I was listening to a politics podcast at the beginning of last week (weren't we all?) and a cursory reference…

1 year ago

Microcredentials and Recognition

Hidden in conversation are a whole host of metaphors, which are pictorial clues to the stories being told. Contrasting two…

1 year ago

Elements of a badging policy

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There's nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator. This…

1 year ago

The AI arms race

It seems that somebody somewhere is using new and sneaky ways of getting messages into my inbox. Will AI's many…

1 year ago

Permission Slip

I was giving a public talk at a Life Sciences museum in Göttingen, Germany earlier this year. Over a hundred…

1 year ago

Facepalm

I created this thinkery in June 2016. That's probably all you need to know. <cough> Brexit <cough>

1 year ago

Insight, in sight, incite!

I was reminded this week whilst running a Visual Storytelling workshop with a group of Social Entrepreneurs in Lewisham, the…

1 year ago

We shape our tools

"How do you find a good name for your start-up?" someone asked. "Hold it lightly - don't overthink it. In…

1 year ago

Venerable Diagrams

I'm a fan of Edith Pritchett's Venn Diagrams that appear in the Saturday Guardian (UK). Who would have thought Graphs…

2 years ago

Two sides to the story

I'm experimenting with cartoons as Gaeilge (in Irish) in order to help me learn my mother tongue. I've been learning…

2 years ago

Things cannot be made simpler

I had the pleasure of tuning in to the initial keynote at ALTC23 by Anne-Marie Scott. She spoke about leadership…

2 years ago

Education & Work

This is an idea I created a few years ago using the Visual Thinkery process with Educators.Coop and their collaborators…

3 years ago

Morpho – Remixer

A butterfly is something I look at and wonder - how did it get all those colours? Maybe I'm just…

4 years ago

Meaningful online

"We need to build an app." Maybe you do, and maybe you don't. Take a few steps back and think…

4 years ago

The Wizard of Pollution

We often don't associate plastic with the oil industry. But it's a massive market, and one that Big Oil is…

4 years ago