Strikethru: Writing less, drawing more?

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Writing less, drawing more?

Napkin Sketch Workbook Don Moyer
Back of the Napkin Dan Roam
Unfolding the Napkin Dan Roam
Visual Meetings David Sibbet

6 comments:

rad-tastic said...: Genius! Being a technical/professional writing minor has taught me this as well. Proposals? Oh Lord, shoot me now!

Your drawings are adorable, and I think you should copyright them for future use on all typosphere blogs, and have image tags instead of blogger's text tags.; March 20, 2011 at 6:08 PM
Joe V said...: Great idea, and I do love your drawings. Reminds me of those margin cartoons in the pages of Mad Magazine.

I was thinking about icons in the sense of the way that "apps" on cell phones and iPads have simple graphical designs, like you could string together a series of them to replace written text, like modern-day hieroglyphs.

And I've admired your recent fountain pen casts, which reminds me of my Pelikan that's languishing in the pen case. Of course, there's the issue of my horrendous handwriting...; March 20, 2011 at 7:34 PM
Mike Speegle said...: Well, at least none of your illustrations are in danger of slipping into the uncanny valley :)

Aside from that, having gone through the technical writing program at UNLV, we were assigned an exercise wherein we conveyed a series of instructions with nothing but abstract symbols. It actually forced me to consider non-textual objects on par with textual. Interesting stuff...; March 20, 2011 at 10:06 PM
Adwoa said...: Nice post! The typewriter nightmare is very clever :); March 20, 2011 at 11:38 PM
deek said...: Interesting that there is such a weighting of technical writers up in this joint:)

Yeah, if it wasn't for writing business requirements, input/output Design and testing, my job would be pretty monotonous and meeting heavy.; March 21, 2011 at 11:14 AM
phillytyper.com said...: Actually, could we boil it down even more... as in those international restroom signs, or something...?; March 23, 2011 at 7:57 AM

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