Presented at the Sketching in Practice (SKIP) conference with SFU, Vancouver in June, 2017

1. #MadforMetaphor:
Sketching Complexity
@amyburvall @IntentionBook
bit.ly/imagED

2. me,
sketching
everywhere

5. aren’t we all?

7. caves at chauvet
32-30,000 BP

8. venus of willendorf
28-25,000

9. Instagram Art

10. INSTANT ART
GALLERY
an artistic shot…
a sketch…
artwork you love…
Show something from
your camera roll
you are proud of…
(then hold up)

12. “Historyteachers” YouTube

13. community
Research
Resources
Cool Peeps
Iconography
Metaphor
Shortology
Data Viz
Graphic Design
Sketchnotes
Photography
Video
Branding
Activities
bit.ly/imagED

14. https://flipgrid.com/vizthink
upload video blogs
share on SM

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20. from this…

21. Paul W. Hankins in the laundromat!
to this…

22. workshop trailer

23. Gutenberg Parenthesis
return to more
visual/ oral

24. we talk in pictures

25. Images existed before words,
and they do convey
a sense of universality
- artist Jean Julien

26. Power of the
VISUAL

27. use metaphorical and visual thinking to
express complex and abstract ideas

28. first symbols man created

29. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-DEAS”

30. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
“EYE-CANDY”

31. Metaphor is about
association +
relationship
making ideas “grow” better

33. “Metaphors have a way
of holding the
most truth
in the least space”
orson scott card

34. metaphorical
thinking
+
iconography

35. Metaphorical Iconography

36. nurturing one’s network
“My-conography”

37. playing with media
“My-conography”

38. Sketch a…Sonnet

39. “The best way to learn a complex idea
is to find it living inside something else
you already understand…
An amateur memorizes.
A professional looks for metaphors”
seth godin

40. I saw the angel
in the marble…
Michelangelo
…and I carved
to set it free

41. FINDING VISUAL METAPHORS in the MUNDANE

42. ornate / ordered
star / support
dichotomy

43. Porous Pedestrian: METAPHOR HUNT

44. same image
can be used for
many
metaphors

45. Metaphors in Museums

46. Re-contextualize Artwork
Museum Remix
Paper 53 app

50. #oldandnew

52. Change?
#imagiphor
Identify a
change-
related
metaphor

53. Or pass camera roll
to a friend and
choose one
of their photos

54. Find a metaphor
for CHANGE
on your camera roll
OR
in something in the room
IMAGIPHOR
https://flipgrid.com/1bc218
Think Pair Share

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56. Making CONNECTIONS:
Metaphorical Thinking
TIPS and TRICKS

57. think thematically

58. slow down

59. look up and down
stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

60. If You Can’t Stop,
Walk

61. file it away

62. weed
or
wish?
MAKING VISUAL
METAPHORS

63. visual metaphor
for
“eating disorder”

65. minimalist posters of a concept

66. minimalist posters
of a concept

70. Get Your
Metaphorical Mind On

71. 3 of Me
https://flipgrid.com/e10d51
current life in 3 emoji
CSI (colour / symbol/image
of you)
3 of me (where I’ve been/
where I am/
where I’m headed)

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73. Crowdsourced
Visual Vocab
create dictionary
of iconography

76. Crowdsourced
Visual Icon
Dictionary
- education
- idea
- technology
- information
- conflict
- love
- time
- change
- student
- government
- learning
- imagine
- travel
- question
- research/
curation
- quote
- food
- success
- earth/world/
global
- school
- team/group
- camera
- smartphone
- problem
- think
- imagine
- writing
- drawing
flipgrid.com/61a2f7

77. affective data

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79. Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun

81. analogies game
word bank of nouns
seek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind

82. Visual Kenning
create a kenning …
then sketch!
ideas:
natural phenomenon
things in daily life

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84. feline devastation
starlight fir
@serendipidoodle

85. add corset ones

88. Serendipidoodle
flipgrid.com/639bd7
bit.ly/serendipidoodlizer
Use the given prompt slips
or
try to be metaphorical

90. Muchness and Suchness
abstract concept viz based on letter
*inspired by Lewis Carroll

91. Drawing
Muchness
Choose a letter.
Think of abstract concepts
beginning with that letter.
Depict visually.

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93. 3 sketches
Use the + and = sign to illustrate the synthesis
Sanburgian Synthesis

94. Sandburgian
Synthesis
Think of the elements that are
a poetic synthesis.
Make 3 sketches
Use + and =

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96. remix logo

97. sketchquotes

98. I just want to make
beautiful things…
even if nobody cares

100. #bowie #literalalphabet
Playing with PUNS

101. #literalalphabet
Bow-e
J-walk
M-bark
Y-knot

102. Sketchquote
Pun Play
Google Remix
Choose one (or more!) and
try to visualize.

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104. #needoji
What words can’t express…
wanderlust
FOMO (fear of missing out)
Woe is me…
Having a Beyonce moment
A-ha moment

105. “untranslatable” words
SAUDADE (Portuguese) : longing feeling for something
you’ve loved which is now lost
IKTSUARPOK (Inuit) : go outside to check if
anyone is coming
PANA PO’O (Hawaiian) : scratch head in order to
remember something you have forgotten

106. essentializing

108. David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come
as simple ideas

109. Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

111. synthesis: emoji story
Emojiliterate?

112. The way out of the box is via the shackles

113. @BryanMMathers

115. Pictographs / Isotypes (1930s)

117. playing with type

120.
Metaphorical
Typography
the lettering matches
the mood or subject
the word is describing
Try with your name,
your city or how you
feel right now
https://flipgrid.com/24dddf

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126. One Word to
Rule Them All
your life right now
your summer plans
Distill something complex,
such an experience
or content knowledge,
into a single word
and augment using
metaphorical typography
and/or accompanying doodles
https://flipgrid.com/a8611a

128. 4 icon challenge

129. icon challenge
distill an event, film, song,
or biography into 3-6 icons
nounproject.com is
a great source
flipgrid.com/8a3720

130. Symbol
Redesign

135. student
symbol
re-design
via Rhitt Growl

136. icon re-design:
THE LOO
design a new male / female/
non-gender specific icon for
the restroom

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138. Mondrian-ify
and
Minimalist Poster

139. Mondrian-esque
Metaphor

141. Illustrate a concept/idea
from your discipline
MONDRIAN-IFY use simple geometric shapes
and/or basic colors
for symbolism
https://flipgrid.com/74443b

143. Haikonography
of
“SPEAK” by
L Halse Anderson
Haikonography

144. Haikonography
write a visual haiku using
only icons
Three lines: five icons /
seven icons / five icons
***remix! Write each on
index cards then mill
around room and exchange
…new poem!
flipgrid.com/5f6992

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147. Dichotomy Series : male/ female

148. http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

149. http://2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com/

150. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

151. Split Screen: “Go Up”, Cassius

152. picture VENNs

153. #oldandnew

154. Dichotomy
OR
Humourous Venn
https://flipgrid.com/2ee88f
Illustrate a dichotomy
(try to let the image
do most of the talking
but you can contextualize
with words)
OR
Create a humourous
Venn diagram
with images and labels

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157. INSIGHT

158. How much coffee do you need?
-Gwen Burvall, 10

159. #Gridsgestures
Nick Sousanis

160. 3 panel summary

161. MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL EVENTS

162. Visualize a Series
in a Theme
(Values)

163. Theme: “Power of Books”

166. 3 Panel Summary
Theme Grid
In My Mind
Illustrate a film, novel
or process in 3 panels
OR
Create a grid depicting
a theme such as
Love is… / Summer is…
OR
sketch what’s in your mind

168. playing with stuff

169. Pareidolia
use existing
found objects

174. Pareidolia
REMIX: draw over
existing landscape
Paper 53 app

175. Re-contextualize Artwork
Museum Remix
Paper 53 app

176. paper clip
pareidolia

177.
Pareidolia
Use the mundane things around you
(or items in your bag)
to create a whimsical illustration
Seek patterns and
make something out of nothing
(a common one is to "see a face"
in an inanimate thing)
Feel free to use paper and
markers to enhance the illusionhttps://flipgrid.com/18e0dd

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179. OREO Challenge
everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object)
*if you need more you can partner with someone
use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict
either:
(“advertise an idea”)

180. leave whole!

181. take apart
cut in half

182. turn on side
crumble

184. OREO
Challenge
Create a visual representation
of a concept from the course
using any available materials
and a single Oreo cookie.
Think of it as an advertisement
of an idea.
https://flipgrid.com/5a58a9

186. playing with others
exquisite corpse /
collaborative creativity

187. collaborative creativity: #remash

188. Visual verse volley

189. #hashtaggerie

190. idea! St. Pepper Sketch-a-Song
Exquisite Corpse

191. volley
snowball
warm-up
visualize a vocabulary term,
whimsical hashtag
or short poem
offered by a peer
write word then “throw” as
a snowball
create an icon or other
visualization for the idea
(try metaphorical thinking)
flipgrid.com/1ea232

193. more ideas
from my book:

194. Lewis Carroll
chortle:
chuckle + snort
mimsy:
miserable + flimsy
portmanteaux
phrankenword

195. https://flipgrid.com/707831
Phrankenword for the Summer…

196. 1 word +
3 image
sketch note
(reflect 1st day
of school)
#oodledoodle

197. Time?

199. @michelrijk
MINDFULNESS:
one-line
drawing

200.
Partner Portrait
in 1 Line
Practice mindfulness
by attempting to draw with
one continuous line
Try drawing your friend's portrait
this way
Perhaps add a little message
of encouragement
and give them the portrait as a gift
https://flipgrid.com/d112ea

202. *Henry Miller

203. Make something
GOOD
every day

204. your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge
https://flipgrid.com/152be8

205. @amyburvall
bit.ly/imagED
@IntentionBook