This story originates from a conversation with my wife about swimming at our local lido. I was trying to explain…
Had you asked me as a kid, I’d have struggled to articulate the world I inhabited at the time. I…
It’s fair to say that it’s only recently that I’ve only begun to understand the impact of losing my hair…
Happy Birthday Wikipedia - I've always been a fan! Knowledge curated by humans that I've been dipping into and learning…
This visual story is taken from The Visual Thinker - Let there be light and is inspired by the words…
This tasty little visual story is about the types of potato grown in Ireland in the last couple of centuries.…
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…
This week I'm tuning into Reclaim Open to try and make some visual sense of it. I really resonate with…
Prepping for a Visual Thinking workshop at DCU in Dublin last month (part of a conference entitled "Education after the…
I’ve really enjoyed capturing keynotes and conversations live. It involves being playfully curious about what’s being communicated, and wondering how…
I met Grayson Perry at an event once. When he was asked what is art? He responded by saying that…
Back in the old days of social media, h/t was a thing. (I remember having to ask what it meant...)…
I think in the early days of thinking about open credentialing, I got fixated on the credential part. The proof…
I was listening to a politics podcast at the beginning of last week (weren't we all?) and a cursory reference…
Hidden in conversation are a whole host of metaphors, which are pictorial clues to the stories being told. Contrasting two…
What creates the spark behind an illustration? There's nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator. This…
It seems that somebody somewhere is using new and sneaky ways of getting messages into my inbox. Will AI's many…
I was giving a public talk at a Life Sciences museum in Göttingen, Germany earlier this year. Over a hundred…
I was reminded this week whilst running a Visual Storytelling workshop with a group of Social Entrepreneurs in Lewisham, the…
"How do you find a good name for your start-up?" someone asked. "Hold it lightly - don't overthink it. In…
I'm a fan of Edith Pritchett's Venn Diagrams that appear in the Saturday Guardian (UK). Who would have thought Graphs…
I'm experimenting with cartoons as Gaeilge (in Irish) in order to help me learn my mother tongue. I've been learning…