There’s a reason the Draw Something app was downloaded over 20 Million Times.
Connecting over sketches can be an exciting, fun, and insightful means of creative communication.
Alon Chitayat, senior UX and motion designer at Google and NYU professor, has been taking creative improvisation even further with a series of real-time collaborative drawing projects.
Come to his SkIp session, which will be mediated via Google’s Jamboard, to learn more about how to tap into the power of sketch-jamming.
Ever thought drawing is just about making pretty pictures?
Meet Kara Sievewright.
Demonstrating the amazing power of her craft, Sievewright’s work is building awareness around not one but three different social issues: the queer and trans movement, Canadian labour history, and cancer patient identity.
Sievewright, alongside Paul Buhle and the other members of the Graphic History Collective, were recently awarded the 2017 Wilson Book Prize for their book, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle.
A contributor of the Radical History Poster Project, Sievewright also recently released the amazing image above which aims to inspire social transformation by highlighting the radical roots of the Pride movement.
As if that wasn’t enough, Sievewright is also presenting this weekend at the 2017 Graphic Medicine Seattle conference on her comic about cancer and queerness.
Come to her upcoming SkIP session to learn more about how she is using drawing to redraw the world in so many different ways.
Like zombies, shark tornadoes, and Wi-Fi dead zones, the idea of putting pen to paper strikes fear in the hearts of many adults.
We get it. I for one can remember the kids in my grade 8 art class laughing hysterically at my sketch of Princess Ariel getting married (though to be fair to them it did look more like a whale carcass on roller skates than a mermaid bride).
Luckily, the Sketching in Practice Symposium is a judgement-free, all-levels-of-(non)-expertise-welcomed zone.
If you can draw a straight line, or a wavy one, or even a squiggle, then you will be ready to engage with the many exciting approaches, tools, and ways of thinking that our presenters will be sharing.
Still don’t believe us? Watch the Squiggle Bird video above to see how even your messiest line can be turned into an adorable tweeter.