The Doodle Revolution

Wall Street Journal: Doodling for Dollars

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking

Rachel Emma Silverman, the reporter who interviewed me and several of my visual-thinking colleagues for her article in the Wall Street Journal, totally gets the Doodle. Her description of what companies are doing to elevate visual thinking accurately reflects the crazy uptick in the market trying to understand its applications. It will be a long [...]

Come Hither, Your Sketchiness: SXSW Interactive’s First SketchCamp

Monday, February 27th, 2012 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking

A short list of things that are simultaneously fun and valuable: Crossword puzzles, children, techniques for creative problem-solving, and SXSW’s first-ever-of-all-time SketchCamp! If you find yourself at SXSW Interactive this year, you are officially invited to join us for the first session of its kind at this conference. SketchCamp – an open-space form of unconferencing designed for [...]

TED: Doodlers, Unite!

Sunday, November 13th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking

From TED.com: Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension — and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we’re caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

Why the Doodle Matters

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Infographics, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking

From .net magazine, my article “Why the Doodle Matters.” You can read it on the .net website or download a PDF version of the article.

What We Learn from Doodles

Monday, September 5th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Explanatory Videos, Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Infographics, Lights in the People Tunnel, Listening, PowerPoints, Product Explanations, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking, VizThink Austin

This article is from CNN.com Editor’s note: Editor’s note: Sunni Brown owns an information design firm and is a speaker and co-author of “GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers.” She was recently named on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business List and on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list. She spoke at [...]

100 Most Creative People in Business 2011?! Thanks, Fast Company.

Thursday, May 19th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Comics and Sketches, Explanatory Videos, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking

To my pleasant (and slightly confused) surprise, Fast Company chose me as one of the folks on their 100 Most Creative People in Business List for 2011. (I came in at #56, so take that, Ryan Seacrest!) In seriousness, I was pleased to be acknowledged as a “Creative,” since it’s a title I haven’t embraced [...]

The Miseducation of the Doodle (A List Apart, Article 322)

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution

Jeffrey Zeldman seems to think I’ve got a message worth spreading. He’s given me great opportunities in the last few weeks and I’ve tried to make him proud with my interview on The Big Web Show and now, with my article for A List Apart. Brilliantly, this stellar net magazine decided to do a double-feature [...]

The Washington Post – Spreading the Doodle Revolution

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Lights in the People Tunnel, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking

My experience as the Resident Doodle Expert at Sharpie, and the subsequent media tour it required, eventually led Margaret Webb-Pressler of the Washington Post to my telephone. She wanted to do a feature on doodling in the Kids Post and thought (probably because I myself am quite a child) that my work would be a [...]