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.…

18 hours 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…

1 week 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…

1 week ago

Curious Intelligence

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

8 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…

10 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…

12 months 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...)…

12 months 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