Sunni Brown

A Dutch Treat: Gamestorming Workshop in Amsterdam

Friday, May 10th, 2013 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Gamestorming: A Playbook

We’re hosting a day-long business gamification experience in Amsterdam, on June 6th, 2013, and you (and yours) are invited! Evergreen and always-useful, our Gamestorming workshop focuses on applied visual + game thinking for the purposes of innovation, problem-solving, optimizing systems and processes, and generally making everything in your work/life better. Our partners – the folks [...]

SXSW Interactive 2013: Our Partnership with 3M Post-it Note Pandemonium

Monday, March 25th, 2013 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Visual Thinking

2013 was our our team’s sixth year to bring large-scale doodle action to SXSW Interactive. And who, pray tell, would be a better partner than 3M, the makers of the globally beloved Post-it Note? Our team of four artists and graphic facilitators was selected by Ultra Creative  to support the Post-It Note project aptly branded “Fill [...]

Into the Mind of My Co-Author: His New Book, THE CONNECTED COMPANY

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Visual Thinking

Dave Gray and his work have long been an inspiration to me. I’ve had a fan-girl devotion to XPlane for several years now, and a deep admiration for its founder, Mr. Gray, who obviously had a remarkable grasp of visual language AND customer behavior. I like to tell Dave that I Internet-stalked him into being my [...]

Purina: Gamestorming Gourmet for Ms. Kitty

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation

See all of the event photos on flickr.com Purina is a well-established brand (you know you remember those Fancy Feast commercials) and they’re also ever-the-innovator when it comes to pet food. The Purina team invited our team to immerse ourselves in the current fancy-feline-food culture by researching and then touring tasteries in St. Louis, MO. [...]

Show me HOW: Gamestorming at the HOW Design Conference, Boston 2012

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Visual Thinking

view the event pictures on flickr.com At some point in their careers, most designers end up–at least once–at the HOW Conference. This time the respected swirl of design thinkers and font nerds was held in Boston, home of some baseball team people get very excited about called the Red Sox. (Please, Bambino, don’t curse me.) [...]

Visualizing the Future: CEOs for Cities in Chicago

Thursday, October 20th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

CEOs for Cities is a rock-and-roll nonprofit that has consistently proven it’s on the cutting edge of conversations around designing and innovating cities of the future. This relatively small but dynamite organization connects urban leaders to front-line research, human-centered and tech-oriented projects, and perhaps most importantly, to each other.

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 [...]

Sneak Peek into Gamestorming Workshop at Duarte Design

Sunday, June 26th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, PowerPoints

Many of you know that Dave Gray and I are hosting a Gamestorming workshop at Duarte Design in July of this year. But did you also know you can get a sneak peek into the content? I spent about about 45 hours designing the curriculum and about 15 hours designing the slides to accompany it. [...]

Monday, May 23rd, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

**OUR FIRST PUBLIC GAMESTORMING WORKSHOP… …is being generously hosted by Duarte Design on July 22, 2011 in Mountain View, CA, and we want to see your shiny faces there. For those of you who prefer moving pictures, click here to watch a video designed by XPLANE that describes the story and practice of Gamestorming. Or, [...]

Playing with Sharp Objects: Gamestorming with Razorfish

Sunday, April 24th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking

Naturally, when I describe the process of Gamestorming, it immediately begs the question: But what does it LOOK LIKE? It is visual thinking, after all. These images are of a recent graphically-facilitated session with combo client Razorfish and AT&T. It was a small group of 15 power-thinkers and it lasted two days with FANTASTIC results. [...]