The Bigger Picture @ CSM
Chris and Dan were recently invited by our new neighbours, Central St Martins, to scribe a series of talks given to students on life outside the art college. The Bigger Picture featured five high profile speakers sharing their professional perspective on some of the mighty forces that shape our society, such as politics, economics, technology [...]
A River Runs Through It
We recently created this Amazon-themed live scribe at an event organised by Google. While perhaps not geographically accurate, the river’s twists and turns allowed us to create nice ‘pockets’ of content for each of the speakers, culminating with explorer Ed Stafford’s harrowing account of his 2 year trek along the entire length of the Amazon. [...]
Body and Soul
We recently completed two animations for Body and Soul, an amazing charity that offers support, hope and inspiration for children, young people and families affected by HIV. Briefed to create two films on HIV and how it is transmitted, the scripts, on first read, looked tricky to combine with our typically bright and breezy visuals. [...]
and this time it’s vinyl…
Here’s an illustration done not long ago for my old friends at MUDAM, Luxembourg’s museum of contemporary art. The poster advertised a Kickstarter-style record launch event.
Fry in Hell. No, wait, it’s a pun…
Our first #iq2short went live last week. Based on a 10 minute edit of @intelligence2 ‘s highly-charged 2009 debate “is the Catholic Church a force for good?” Anne Widdecombe and Stephen Fry fire pro and anti Catholic Church shots at one another, accompanied by our stylish and witty visuals. @stephenfry described it as “a rather fancy job,” which, [...]
TweeTED
TED Global 2011 took place in Edinburgh recently, a packed week overflowing with the very stuff Scriberia thrives on: inspiring speakers, good ideas, mad ideas, innovation, imagination and great stories. With TED Global tickets just beyond our current R&D budget, but not wishing to miss out on the action, we came up with a little [...]
Great Expectations!
Here’s an illustration just completed for our friends at the National Autistic Society – the UK’s leading charity for people with autism. Great Expectations is their campaign for the improvement of the SEN (Special Educational Needs) system for kids with autism – giving a voice to parents and children who have suffered a lack of [...]
It’s catching on!
Issue 26 of Contagious Magazine is hot off the press – and we’re delighted to have contributed an illustrated overview of its contents in the form of this jam-packed poster. We had to work pretty fast – which is the only way we know how I guess – reading through features and articles as they [...]
Ageing Gracefully
Over the last few months we have been working with the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust to provide an illustrated approach to their work in older people’s services. In particular, we’ve been looking at what happens when someone starts to display signs of dementia (in case you weren’t aware, these might include trouble sleeping, [...]
Nice One
Here are a few vignettes from a recent job I did for an energy company, via a consulting client. The number 1 had particular significance to their project and fortunately I also found it formed the basis of an adaptable, expressive little character that was very quick and easy to draw. I’ve been experimenting with [...]
Anty-heroes out to lunch
On the back of his remote scribing efforts (organised by our friends at Learning Times) the Smithsonian Institution recently asked Dan to create an info-packed trayliner. In case you were wondering, trayliners are the sheets of paper sometimes placed on trays in fast-food outlets, school canteens etc. This one prompts some pretty serious thinking about [...]
IBM Summit at Start
Dan, Chris, James and Karolin Schnoor were lucky enough to scribe at IBM’s summit ‘Smarter Business for a Sustainable Future’ held at Lancaster House. There was an amazing list of speakers, including Prince Charles, and what we learned from them and the debate over the course of the event was fascinating. We worked on nine [...]
University Challenges
Another piece of Virtual Graphic Facilitation in association with Learning Times. More details to follow…
Conversation Changing… Cannes Lions 2010
After much build-up and a couple of heart-stopping late technical hitches, last week’s live digital scribe at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival was judged a success. In 45 minutes, Richard Pinder of Publicis Worldwide and Paul Kemp-Robertson and Jess Greenwood of Contagious explored the ways that smart brands are igniting, owning, confronting and subverting the [...]
Jammy Dodgers
Chris and Dan, assisted by Freya Harrison whose map and signage really provided the event with its distinctive look and feel, completed a successful evening at the first ever Google Jam last week. The scribe session lasted about an hour and a half – kicked off by Tom Uglow and Bruce Daisley on the creative [...]
The Contagious Conversation
I will be producing a live digital representation of a keynote session at the prestigious Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this June. I’ll be onstage with a huge projection of my work appearing behind me as the image develops. Obviously, it’s not all about me… encouraging the audience to think about ideas that have enabled [...]
More Smithsonian Remote Scribing
This one was for a talk on the Yu’Pik Eskimos of Western Alaska, and all their amazingly decorated, symbolically laden objects. Like the Folkways recordings session before it, this piece has been worked on a fair bit after the hour’s session. Probably getting on for two and half in total. But it’s only really after [...]
Sounds interesting…
I’ve been developing an exciting relationship with Learning Times recently. I’ll be providing remote scribing at a number of their beautifully produced, intellectually stimulating online conferences, backed up by the rest of the Scriberia team. More to follow on this, but I thought I’d share this recently completed piece I produced for a talk by [...]
To Boldly Go…
I recently scribed a fun away day for a government organisation, appealing to the Trekkies in the group by capturing the department’s aspirations and ideals within a Starship Enterprise theme. I’m not a huge Star Trek fan myself, and a few basic inaccuracies were pointed out to me at the time, so please don’t email [...]
Virgin on the ridiculous
Contrary to appearances, this stuff wasn’t produced for a product development session in the Virgin boardroom. Ever-inventive facilitator Tim le Lean cheekily used the ubiquity of the Virgin brand to frame a brainstorming game for his workshop participants – teams being asked to conjure up new Virgin ventures from a set of randomly chosen elements. [...]
When the boat comes in
I did this last summer, working with a consulting company to create an imaginative way of persuading a very well known telecoms company that they needed a series of workshops for their line managers! Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite enough to win the work, but the feedback on the image was really positive. It was hand [...]
Visitors at Tate
I recently helped the Information team at Tate Britain to visualise an ideal visitor experience, showing the many ways in which a visitor might engage with an artwork. Using a Henry Moore sculpture as the example artwork worked well, repeated over 20 times in various contexts to emphasis the point.
