Mike Rohde

Or maybe we do, depending on how you define school...Some of you may remember a couple weeks back, where I showed my joy at learning how to draw cartoon people with actual personalities, which I learned from cartoonist, author, and visual notetaking guru Austin Kleon as part of VizThink U's webinar. I'm telling you, dekeTopians, this visual notetaking thing is something to pay attention to, especially for a visually wired set of folk like the denizens of dekeTopia. One of my favorite "Viznotes" from the seminar was Austin Kleon's recording of what graphic recorder/facilitator Sunni Brown was saying about listening. You gotta a) love meta commentary, and b) love any piece that graphically depicts "draw the meat" with a raw steak worthy of Alex the Lion from Madacascar:

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The aforementioned Sunni actually employs these skills on a very large scale in front of live audiences (no pressure, girl)...