Sunny Side Up
Our latest animation for @intelligence2 – following on from our recent animation of George Monbiot and Simon Zadek’s climate change debate - is now live. Part of the Shell “Switched On” series of events on our energy future, this one sees Professor Michael Düren of DESERTEC argue that we can harness the African desert sun to power the world.
Putting the Act into Action
We’re always up for helping our friends and near neighbours at National Austistic Society. As well as our pro bono scribe work, Dan helped out with some illustrations for their Great Expectations campaign last year, and so we were delighted when they contacted us again asking us to illustrate a new publication helping people get [...]
Opening Up
When the Guardian opened its doors to its readers for last month’s Open Weekend, we (James, Karolin, Chris, Dan and Nina) were there to draw the highlights. Director of the event Madeleine Bunting said “Curiosity and conviviality, the two Cs, were our watchwords.” She forgot ‘cartoons and colouring-in’ obviously, but we all had such a great time [...]
Water Matters
Our Virtual Graphic Facilitation work on Smithsonian Education’s Shout programme is always a guarantee of fascinating and important content presented in an engaging way – precisely the stuff we Scriberians thrive on. Following the ‘Live with the Land’ series of talks in 2010-11, we are delighted to be contributing again, through our friends at Learning [...]
Futurescapes
What will the world will look like in 2025? Scriberia are delighted to have been working with Sony and Forum for the Future on the exciting FutureScapes project, a wide-ranging initiative bringing together expert thinkers, designers, futurologists, writers and the public to explore life’s challenges and opportunities in 2025. We sent a scribing team to the [...]
Back to the Futurologists
Following our sponsorship of November’s fascinating inaugural If Conference, a crack team of Scriberia artists has been producing illustrations for each of the 36 talks that took place. The plan is to team up with our friends at Intelligence Squared publish these later in the year, but in the meantime, here’s a sneak preview. The [...]
Talking Heads
As a consequence of our involvement in the If Conference late last year, the stylish folk over at Wallpaper asked us to create an illustration to accompany their article on Intelligence Squared, If, and the growth in future-focused, speaker-driven events. We tackled it as we did the work we subsequently produced for many of the [...]
Monbiot vs Zadek
Our latest #iq2short was launched earlier this month. We’ve animated a lively joust between environmentalists George Monbiot and Simon Zadek as they take opposing positions over the motion ‘London’s Climate Change Policy Should Begin in Beijing.’
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. [...]
The Revolution Will Be Animated…
Back in May, with the Middle East in revolt after decades of living under oppressive dictatorships, an audience of students gathered at the Royal Society for a debate organised by the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), the Open Society Foundation (OSF), IQ2, the British Council and the International Herald Tribune. The motion: ‘The Jasmine Revolution [...]
Please be patient
Here is a quick update showing some illustration work we did with the lovely people at together for the Health Foundation.
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.
Vision On
Chris, David, Seif and Karolin were over in Brussels for the Future Mobility Now Conference creating visuals for animations, presentations, live capture and post event documentation. Whew. If that wasn’t enough we thought it might be good to push ourselves even further and try a new way to capture and present scribing which we’re tentatively [...]
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 [...]
Fry vs Widdy
@Stephenfry versus Ann Widdecombe. Round One! These caricatures were created by Scriberia for an animated debate we created with @intelligence2 titled “Is the Catholic Church a force for good?” which should be going onto Youtube in a few days time. We’ll let you know a bit more about the animation once it’s up but we [...]
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 [...]
Turbo Charged!
@Goodfornothing scribing for @bletchleypark @gnewtcargo and @foodcycle. If you’re a creative type who is tired of creating boring job for unappreciative clients then get yourself along to the next Good For Nothing and spend 48 hours with some of the smartest designers, developers and craftsfolk you’re ever likely to meet solving briefs for game changing [...]
Speedboats and Supertankers
Here’s a wee editorial illustration from new @contagious magazine. This illustration was for an article by Ben Malbon who is director of strategy at Google’s Creative Lab. He talks about how innovation is such a hot topic right now but ensuring it happens on a day to day basis is a totally different matter. Effective [...]
Live online drawing
Wacom scribing for @Smithsonian Webcasts. These were illustrated live from our London office and simultaneously broadcast to the participants who were taking part in the online conference. Snazzy!
Scriberia and the Zombie Scribe
Sometimes we work with business men and women. Sometimes we work with government. Or the good people who run charity organizations. Now and again, an undead writer comes knocking. Zombie Hand said “My book needs a cover” and I said ok, I’ll do it. Because it’s an amazing tale. Very, very funny. And nobody says [...]
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 [...]
