The moon over a beautiful sunny and very Dutch snowskape, the icey ‘polder’ whilst skating on a ‘sloot’
Just a doodle while enjoying the fire, red wine and a fine saturday evening at home. Sometimes that’s all I need.
Waiting out the blizzard in front of the fireplace in Tigne, France. Had some excellent days of skiing just before.
Saturday afternoon, rainy, almost dark. Fire burning in the fireplace, wine, all my favorite pens and my moleskine. Still felt like doing a fast doodle on my iPad. Here it is.
With my iPad on the couch, just before I decide to go to bed. I love that time, silent house, nothing but my thoughts, the best time to think and doodle.
This week’s iPad doodle; #Apple #iCloud #walled garden. A beautiful garden that is, but one that is hard to leave once you’re in.
I received my new stylus for the iPad yesterday and I had to try out some drawing styles right away to feel if it made any difference with my old and simple stylus. I will let you know what I think soon. But I do know that, apart from my moleskine drawings, iPad doodles are [...]
I love the summer, eating fresh berries whenever I want.. This lot is my desert today
Yesterday I was walking in knee-high grass full of all sorts of flowers waving softly in the wind. I decided to literally drop down at the spot and layed there looking at the sky, listening to the soft sounds around me…
I usually share what inspires me, my work, or insights. This time I decided to be inspired. By everything I am surounded by, and immersed in every day. Everything that helps me inspire and share. This is the result! So pleased with it I installed it as wallpaper. Click here for a bigger version
Since I promised I would upload the pictures of my Rome trip later; here is one of my favorites. You can find my other Rome pictures here
On a personal note.. we spend the weekend in beautiful Rome. A wonderfull city with ancient treasures around every corner. Ofcourse I will upload my pictures to Flickr soon, but here’s an impression.
On the way home through France just below Lyon, our next stop. Mountains fading in the distance.. Smell of fresh summer rain washed away by the strong sun.
Rough edges with houses miraculously attached here and there, the Ligurian coast.. I have this drawing and a collection of pebbles to take me back every now and than.
Quick drawing of the Dutch polder after a good summer rain storm on my way to my parents. Love the simple dark but bright colours, so I kept it simple.
I love the pale winterblue skies, with the faint orange as the sun sets in the late afternoon. Makes me take of my gloves and shoot pictures untill my fingers go numb.
On a sunny sunday shopping in Antwerp.. with lots of coffee and chocolate. Click for bigger version
Whilst sitting and waiting on a very busy museum sunday. The kids wondering of and coming back doing science projects all afternoon at the “science festival” I had this magnificent view on the Amstel and Amsteram
Spending a very relaxing evening… “met mintnopjes’ can really keep this up for hours, blogging, reading, watching, drawing, tweeting, … on the couch with my favorite screens..
Went to the local memorial today.. May 4th 2009. Just to be silent with others. Watching listening always feels special.
Monday turned in a great mobile monday this 1st of June. The momoams 11 with a whole range of first class speakers and their view on the future of mobile. Wether it be marketing or advertising or how the mobile will shape the web the message was clear. We need to act now in order to take this future in our own hands, to shape it into something good for all of us.
Read the rest of ‘The future in our backpockets, momo 11′ »
How do you make them.. ? Why do you make them..? How long does it take..? Many have approached me to aks these questions. So I have decided to write a post to try and explain. Sketchnotes, the making of..
The why is easy, my notes have always been in sketches, quotes and nodes to make connections or draw relations. It makes me remember things more easy. When it proofed helpful to others I simple gave some more attention to them so that others would be able to read them as well.
The how takes a bit more explaining. They are not just sketches, neither just notes. A sketchnote takes me as long as the speaker is talking. I listen to the story and make it my own. My interpretation and all what I pick up while listening will appear on paper.. In every sketchnote I usually pick up on insights or relations. I sometimes even relate outside the speakers story, just because this is how my mind works. In a way every sketchnote is my version of a blogpost of a presentation all wrapped up in one drawing.
I enjoy making sketchnotes when passionate speakers speak about things I relate to. So web and social media is my favorite subject. I relate and understand this. So I can make connections and insights. Sketching The Wext Web ’09 in Amsterdam was a great thing to do. And judging on Boris’s Flickr stats (where my skethcnotes where posted) -as well as my own- other enjoyed them too! I’ll just keep on sketchnoting, hoping others will keep enjoying them. So that one day, I’ll be the official sketchnoter for Leweb in Paris. Or other big influential conferences. Making me a very happy sketching @wilg!
After three days of conference and excellent parties last week, it is time to look back. Luckily there are some very good posts that provide an inspiring overview that you shouldn’t miss.
pictures; @silvertje and @jeeem.
links to several articles; Contentgirls
the next web by quotes; @timanrebel
and my own overview in sketchnotes:
The sketchnote illustrating this article I made for an article in “de Volkskrant”
The most beautiful sunny day in Amsterdam.. the Balie filling up with laughter on unconference day. The current web giving the stage to several speakers.. stacking mac’s alongside the speakerdesk…
Telia Sonera with the opt in censorship solution for the grey area’s. 7load (the guys from the flutter video) alerting us on the importance of measurement. The basis of advertising..we need to find new solutions. Insites , trying to give new insights on shopper behaviour through connected market research. Current, with a awesome prezi presentation on active engagement, we need to reach out. After a break with beer in the sun. Werner Vogel and Khris Loux took the stage:
30 maart in de rode hoed, veel bekende maar ook heel veel nieuwe gezichten en een door de bezoeker geinspireerde line up.
Pecha Kucha was verrassend snel en de sprekers hadden het concept goed begrepen.
De open space pitch had goed veel potentie, helaas lieten een aantal providers de deelnemers in de steek.
Het inspirerende einde werd verzorgd door Gerd Leonhard.
Kleine zaal in een onooglijk gebouw aan de Liffey in Dublin. Ryan Carson on stage, de kick- off van een geweldige dag met insprirerende mensen. Fowa Dublin 2009 startte met de razendsnelle presentatie van Eoghan McCabe en Des Traynor. Deze twee snelle Ieren, bedenkers van Qwitter, weten met een hele visuele presentatie te inspireren. “Dare to be different” in een ander jasje. Ze zetten vraagtekens bij alle conventionele webontwerpen en dagen ons uit ‘innovation’ in te zetten voor unconventioneel gebruik. Als het maar wel gebruiksvriendelijk blijft. Ze zetten vraagtekens bij huidige conventies in software design en gebruik; “They should let 
their brand be good software.”, en ” let us own the software we bought.”
Ik ben mesmerized, ja die jongens hebben gelijk! Mijn visuele hart klopt een beetje sneller. Next up is Robin Christopherson. Zijn presentatie is unconventioneel. En ook een stuk minder visueel. Hij is blind en brengt me weer met twee voeten op de grond. Visueel en Flash is “hell” voor de slechtzienden onder ons. Software die html naar audio vertaalt werkt alleen bij sommige sites en ja, inlogvelden zijn onmogelijk.
In de break spreek ik iemand die het liefst alleen maar RSS feeds leest. Visuals en geluid geven haar alleen maar ruis. Reality hits me. Net als op school, waar de een beter leert door te zien en te doen, de ander door te luisteren en vertellen, zijn er ook die beter lezen en schrijven. Terwijl iedereen zijn eigen stijl toepast op de site die zij publiceren, zouden we dat eigenlijk andersom moeten doen. Iedereen dat stukje web wat ze willen gebruiken, hun info halen , laten vormen naar hun wens. Als ik visueel ben wil ik de unconventionele innovaties waar de Contrast guys zo vol passie over praten. Maar ben ik slechtziend of gewoon veel meer op audio gericht wil ik geluid, en als ik liever alleen tekst zie, dan alleen tekst. Wij creeren het web zoals wij het willen, maar wij willen ook het web gebruiken zoals wij het willen. Ineens zie ik sites met drie grote knoppen: Visual, Text, Audio… forming the info the way you want it. Of een alternatieve feed, waar RSS audio is. Dazzling insights.
Blaine Cook deelt zijn visie op communities, natural social networks. Waar al regionale netwerken ontstaan in de verschillende landen omdat ze als natural social network meer aanspreken dan grote spelers. Regionale netwerken zoals Hyves die nu gezamelijk groter zijn als Facebook, maar daar ontstaat ook het probleem van decentralizatie.
De dag wordt afgesloten door the world according to David H. Hansson. ” Fuck the real world” . Zijn visie op een succesvolle start up, die we geen start up mogen noemen maar een business, is vooral uitvoering,
doorzettingsvermogen en ‘simpel’. Maar denk er aan; het is “pretty hard to do, simple!”.
