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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
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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!
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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.
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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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SECRET APP MAKES LIFE EASY
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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...
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This doodle was created on paper for Grant Potter for being generally brilliant.
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Reach out and share your thoughts. We're always listening:
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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!
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This story originates from a conversation with my wife about swimming at our local lido. I was trying to explain how I always had a reluctance to go, wary of the social negotiation - but yet always enjoyed it, and found myself uttering the phrase “the anticipation of negotiation”. And just like that, a little jump-off point presented itself… This …
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Had you asked me as a kid, I’d have struggled to articulate the world I inhabited at the time. I had nothing to compare it to. It just was. I breathed it in, the said and the unsaid, people’s actions and expressions and behaviours and made sense of it as best as I could. As we all do. I breathed …
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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 …
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AND FINALLY
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