Meeting Hack: Meeting Room Essentials
Meeting Hack: Meeting Room Essentials
When you picture a meeting room, you likely envision a colorless, fluorescent-lit space, a large rectangular table with numerous chairs bordering it, and perhaps a projector hanging from the ceiling for that all-too-familiar PowerPoint presentation – your “standard” meeting room, right? So why do we mention “Meeting Room Essentials” if a meeting room usually comprises of the same things?
Meeting Hack: How to Avoid Workshop Pitfalls
Meeting Hack: How to Avoid Workshop Pitfalls
If you’re organizing a workshop or meeting anytime soon, follow these tips to avoid common workshop pitfalls that waste time and energy.
Graphic Facilitator: Fernanda de Uriarte
Graphic Facilitator: Fernanda de Uriarte
A wearer of many creative hats, Fernanda de Uriarte is hard to categorize. Simply calling her an “artist” – and a gifted one at that – would be an understatement. As a child, she was always creating: painting, drawing, building, designing…surefire signs of an artist, yes. But this early penchant for arts and crafts soon developed into a strong fascination of something more than just art. Her creative spirit became enamored by industrial design. It was in this field that she felt she could excel—engaging her visual mind and artistic panache and channeling it into something more ‘practical’, something more experiential.
Today, Fernanda fuses her diverse expertise and experiences in the world of Design with her seasoned artistic skillset to offer various services as both a designer and graphic scribe/facilitator. She has joined the ranks of an increasing pool of women and men, artists particularly, and works independently. She loves the work she does and so do we.
Graphic Facilitator: Lance Bell
Graphic Facilitator: Lance Bell
Lance Bell is a London-based, wickedly-talented graphic illustrator & visual recorder, who swears by (non-photo) blue pencils and Macintosh computers. The son of a Royal Air Force officer, he saw most of the world before the age of 15 – his nose stuffed in Astérix le Gaulois and Johnny’s Hart’s B.C. Comics, whose composite styles would ultimately influence his own.
Cartoons and comic strips are Lance’s bread and butter. Despite his precocious world travels, he believes “he got more inspiration and direction from the things he read.” After endless hours reproducing his favorite comics out of books, contributing his own “gag cartoons” to magazines during college, and creating graphics for computer games on home computers (we’re talking pre-Macintosh, folks, circa-Commodore ’64), Lance eventually landed a position at Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), where he helped develop their News Graphics Service, which would be a wholly digital platform – a pioneering operation of its time.
Rock Paper Scissors Icebreaker: Energizing the Masses
Rock Paper Scissors Icebreaker: Energizing the Masses
Despite the somewhat blurred history of what many see as a juvenile hand game, Rock Paper Scissors has been used for millennia all across the globe. When all other means of reason and rationale fail, Rock Paper Scissors has often proved to be the deus ex machina of bar none decision-making. The truth is, while many think of Rock Paper Scissors as a game of randomness and sheer luck there actually exists quite an index of sophisticated strategy. Unlike a flip of the coin, which relies almost entirely on chance. Read More
