Christoph Niemann that makes illustrations, visualizations and thoughtful comments for The New York Times has been out collecting odd shaped leaves. Weather it’s drawing with coffee on napkins or making icons with Lego Niemann is king!

The New York Times

A super cool example of how visuals can help us see matters from differnt angles. Gridd is a dutch consulting company that help their clients see what they say – among other things.

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What does women’s fashion, politics and bird flu have in common? Not necessarily anything. But the biggest stories in our life is now available in visual language. Fast Company expands our idea of mindmapping in their new book The Visual Miscallanium. And it’s awsome!

It’s all about the writing – or is it? The playfulness, the intentions and the aestetics in this film is touching.

Here is a visual way of communicating stories – with dots. It seems that the simpler visual material you use, the better the message becomes. I like this one where Monday Dots explains behavior. Maybe we’d have to do one similar with stick figures.

14 days ago it was finally decided that we were to contribute to the Climate Talks held in Barcelona – a 7 days negotiation process leading up to COP15. As a support team of WWF we traveled to Barcelona bringing a lot of ideas and concepts to try out: Ways in which we could apply visual language, visual thinking and visual practice to stimulate the negotiators. We figured that the complex issues of climate change could use a bit of visuals – in order for people to better see what each other means. We have engaged with our colleagues around the world to support these efforts. The above slideshow gives examples of all the ways in which we have “engaged with the Climate talks”. This document now serves as a catalogue which various parties the coming weeks will look at decide how much of it we will also contribute with at the final negotiations in Copenhagen December 8th to 18th.

Here is the third set of slides coming from the global network of visual practitioners.
These are made by:
* Julian Burton, UK
* Nancy Marguliese, US

We are now back home from Barcelona. More visuals and examples will come. The above is the second compilation. This has been made by:
* Avril Orloff, Canada
* Katrine Nygaard, Denmark
* Reinhard Kuchenmüller, Germany/Italy
* Harry van der Velde, the Netherlands
* Brandy Agerbeck, US
* Thomas Thorhauge, Denmark
* Erik Petri, Denmark

Early this morning we were for the WWF meeting. And almost missed having a visual for the press release where WWF comments on the climate talks. Read the press release here and see it on www.panda.org:

Climate talks: Saying all the wrong things but chance remains to do the right things

“Barcelona, Spain – An ambitious climate treaty can still be achieved in Copenhagen despite most policy makers’ focus on what they cannot achieve….”