{"id":1149,"date":"2017-06-13T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2017-06-13T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T19:40:15","slug":"complexity-essentialized-amy-burvall-on-the-power-of-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/complexity-essentialized-amy-burvall-on-the-power-of-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Complexity Essentialized: Amy Burvall on the power of images"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1150\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amy-burvall-paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1150 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amy-burvall-paper.jpg\" alt=\"Amy Burvall Keys You Wished Worked In Real Life\" width=\"1280\" height=\"893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amy-burvall-paper.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amy-burvall-paper-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amy-burvall-paper-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amy-burvall-paper-1024x714.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Amy Burvall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifewire.com\/internet-memes-that-have-won-our-hearts-3573553\">Memes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativebloq.com\/graphic-design-tips\/information-graphics-1232836\">infographics<\/a> are awesome for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Images posses a unique ability to communicate complex, even emotional, information rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>However, understanding how to create and engage with meaningful(l) images is not easy. According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyburvall.com\">Amy Burvall<\/a>, educator, TedTalker, and author, doing so requires a form of visual literacy she calls metaphorical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Learn how to practice metaphorical thinking and hone your visual communication skills at Burvell\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/presenters-2017\/\">upcoming SkiP session<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note: the content of this workshop will draw from Buvall&#8217;s recently published book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Intention-Creativity-Classroom-Amy-Burvall\/dp\/1945167327\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1497035590&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=intention+critical+creativity\"><em>Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memes and infographics are awesome for a reason. Images posses a unique ability to communicate complex, even emotional, information rapidly. However, understanding how to create and engage with meaningful(l) images is not easy. According Amy Burvall, educator, TedTalker, and author, doing so requires a form of visual literacy she calls metaphorical thinking. Learn how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-amy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}