Visual Storytelling

Facilitator: Karl Gude
Organization: Michigan State University
Session #: 108
Session Title: Visual Storytelling

Date: Monday, January 28, 2008
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Room: Olympic

Description

In this session you will try some simple drawing techniques and learn how to use them to sketch out a narrative. Need to visualize that new restructuring plan? Need to show a step-by-step process? Karl Gude, an accomplished artist, will give you a behind-the-scenes look at how he worked at Newsweek, using drawings, maps, charts, and other visualizing tools, to convey his message effectively and he will lead you through your own excercise in visual storytelling.

Karl Gude knows how to tell a story, especially with drawings and pictures. As an artist and journalist for over a quarter of a century (the last ten with Newsweek magazine), Karl has helped his readers understand complex news stories by visualizing them, from how the Pope, Reagan and John Lennon were shot to how the planes hit the World Trade Center. But the stories he covered were not always so dramatic. He also explained such topics as how drugs work in the body, what executives did wrong at Enron and how flowers can be planted in a garden to bloom throughout the day.  Come to this session to learn how to apply these same proven techniques to your business problem. 

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