Sunni Brown

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 [...]

Turning a Corner with Turner Broadcasting Co.

Monday, January 2nd, 2012 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

 ‘Tis the season to be gaming. And many great games were played during a recent 2-day Gamestorming session with Turner Broadcasting Co. in Atlanta, GA. We were thrilled to be invited by the Strategy Development AYAKM group to host their offsite this year. The offsite was designed to support a work-flow transformation for a small [...]

TED: Doodlers, Unite!

Sunday, October 23rd, 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.

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.

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 [...]

Now is Our Time – TEDGlobal 2011 in Edinburgh

Thursday, August 4th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Click a thumbnail for a larger view. Click here to view them on Flickr. Being part of any TED event, whether as a speaker, facilitator or visualizer, has been like joining a family. A big, raucous, good-samaritan, wildly creative family. I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of being involved in various TED events, my first [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]