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Free Resource — Graphic Express: First Steps to Graphic Facilitation in Youth Work

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on November 17, 2014

This is a complete how-to guide for starting out in visual facilitation. It’s aimed at youth, but it’s good for everyone. Here’s the link to the PDF: http://www.joonmeedia.ee/graphic_express/14-10-03/graphic_express_11-5_mb_max.pdf. And the website is: https://www.salto-youth.net/rc/euromed/. This amazing resource was shared on Facebook …

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Eight Design Indaba Conference 2014 Talks — Sketchnotes by Roy Blumenthal

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on April 2, 2014

At the end of February, I was privileged to attend the Design Indaba Conference 2014 in Cape Town. I was there courtesy of social media agency, CEREBRA, for ABSA. I was located in the satellite venue, where I sat at …

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Graeme Sacks snaps Roy in Killarney — after Roy appeared on eNEWS CHANNEL live

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on March 2, 2010

Graeme Sacks (@AfricanABC) popped into Mugg & Bean in Killarney. He took this pic of me demonstrating ArtRage to an interested-party. I’ve been uploading pics I made live on-air this morning at eNEWS CHANNEL. They had a special to celebrate …

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Roy Makes a Caricature

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on January 28, 2010

Standard Bank held a three-day conference. I was the caricaturist for the Group Corporate Affairs division. These three pics are from a caricaturing/visual facilitation gig I did for Standard Bank through the WinWin Group. It was a three-day job, and …

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A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on January 27, 2010

A pic from my BMW conference on Mon 25 Jan 2010 — Karen Valle from Mini, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is a pic I made live at the BMW conference. All of the BMW and MINI dealers from around …

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Bigger Picture Visual Vitamins Blog Global Inputs Nov 5 2009

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on November 6, 2009

View more presentations from Bigger Picture. Ole Qvist-Sørensen, director of the Danish visual facilitation firm, BIGGER PICTURE, put out a call to visual facilitators around the world to help out with a fascinating challenge… To create emergency pictures during the …

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HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY by Warwick Cairns — a multimedia animated summary

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on December 1, 2008

HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY is Warwick Cairns’s second book. It’s all about how the arbitrary ‘safety’ and ‘health’ laws imposed on us by ‘the people who run things’ are actually really bad for us. The book details strategies for taking …

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Animated Rich…! Mulholland tells us about Missing Link

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on November 18, 2008

Rich…! Mulholland is the founder of Missing Link. (http://missinglink.co.za ) He appeared last Saturday on the television show I work on. I’m the inhouse visual facilitator for Kaleidoscope on CNBC AFRICA, making pictures of the ideas liberated by the interview process. …

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How to Go About Getting into Visual Facilitation

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on August 29, 2008

An ArtRage forum member sent me a message asking me how she could get into doing visual facilitation for a living. I figure my answer to her might be worth sharing. And maybe we can have some dialogue about my …

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‘I believe I can fly!’ — starring Jacob ‘Laduma’ Zuma

By Roy Blumenthal Posted on August 14, 2008

Here’s my latest little bit of messing around in CrazyTalk 5.1. This is a pic I made of Jacob ‘Laduma’ Zuma back when controversy hit him really hard. (Please don’t confuse him with Zu-Ma Se Poes. Different politician.) I’m experimenting …

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