Make Marks that Make Meaning

As visual thinkers, our job is to make marks that make meaning. One of the things that I appreciate about this work is the different form that those marks can …

The Pyramid of Belief

Where do your beliefs come from? That’s one of the questions that Dave Gray explores in his book Liminal Thinking. To answer it, he shares with us a simple yet …

Sketch Instinct: 2025 Book Club Selections

Want to make sketching it out second nature in 2025? That’s the goal of my new program ​Sketch Instinct​. To complement the library of complete-at-your-own-pace sketchnoting courses, I’m introducing a …

Debunking Learning Styles

What’s your learning style? Are you a visual learner? An auditory learner? A kinesthetic learner? In my work teaching visual thinking skills, the topic of learning styles comes up a …

A Workbook for Visual Thinkers

Ten years ago I developed a workbook to help folks new to visual thinking build their mark-making skills. For the first decade of its life, that resource existed only as …

Your Biology is Built for This

How does visualization help us to learn and think differently? That’s a question that Kathy Oneto recently asked me during our conversation for her podcast Sustainable Ambition. In the video …