It has probably not escaped a lot of the blog readers that Bigger Picture is currently work with the climate summit, illustrating some of the complex issues.
There are a few other visual practitioner here, using similar tools to help create understanding. One of them is David Gillette, who does an excellent job of creating visual explanations.

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.

We have sent out a request to the visual thinking and practice community asking for everyone to contribute with visuals which can explain some of the key messages and concepts discussed during the Barcelona Climate Talks leading up to the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen.

Thank you – so far – to:
* Katrine Clante, Denmark
* Nancy Margulies, US
* Roy Blumenthal, South Africa
* Erik Petri, Denmark
* Harry van der Velde, The Netherlands
* Maja Rottbøll, Denmark

Check out their websites.

Last year we met the JAM guys in Berlin (Vizthink Europe), and then later on in Amsterdam at their VizThink NL (they are now on their 5th event). They remind os of a party-rock-paint-band. As a crew they enter the stage and your jaws will drop. They know how to engage people and make fantastic visuals to support their work. Furthermore they have amazing Mr. Pippet. They are among the best in the field.

They host a great blog (click on below image) and together with GRIDD and Zicht they are frontrunners in the Visual Field in Europe.

This is a great set of slides explaning how to become better at Visual Thinking.

Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.

Leo Murray is an animator of the fiction documentary ‘The Age of Stupid’. He has created this thought provoking visual story: ‘Wake Up, Freak Out’. It is based on scientific reports and tells a powerful story. It calls for reflection and action. We believe there is a role to play for visual thinkers and practiotioners to use visual language to get collective thinking and action going. What do you think?

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Our friends at Xplane just sent out a newsletter with the above big picture showing the Cap Gemini Accellerated Solutions Environment. This concepts originated from our heroes of MG Taylor and has since also been a key ingredient in what our heroes at The Value Web does. And here is a good quote for everyone in business to take in:

“The power that a single image has to convey an enormous amount of content is underappreciated in business today. However, the ability to create such a piece that is simple, clear and elegant is a real art”.

Chip Saltsman, Vice President, Americas Leader, Capgemini Accelerated Solutions Environment.

This was said in connection to the above Xplanation. We will here take the liberty to broaden it out as a statement around the field of graphic facilitation, visual dialogue and communication.

Supercool cartoon that makes it look SO easy!

Try out this cool thesaurus, that clusters the words visually – and makes you see the connections! Visual Thesaurus