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Author Archives: GK VanPatter
Lost Stories Information Design History
In a competitive business marketplace, not everyone wants to acknowledge that each generation tends to learn from, build on or divert from the previous generations ideas and output. We see this phenomenon clearly evident in the various streams of Visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Isotype, Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Edward Tufte, GK VanPatter, Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, Humantific Collection, Information Design History, Isotype Institute, Joseph Priestly, Otto Neurath, Statistical Graphics, Visual SenseMaking, Willard C. Brinton, William Playfair
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Making Sense of Industries
We love and respect the complex history of what has become the sensemaking profession today. Here are more example images from Humantific’s Isotype Institute Collection. These are from 1955. The Vienna based Isotype Institute team active in the 1920s-1950s is widely … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Business Design Thinking, Clarity not Simplicity, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Information Design, Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Charts, Isotype Institute, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, Pictorial Statistics, Rise of SenseMaking, SenseMaking, The Significance of Isotype, Transformer Role, Understanding Isotype
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Consultants Kill Innovation? Huh?
We could not help but notice the peculiar article in Fast Company’s online Design section posted on January 9, written by Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen provocatively titled: Do Innovation Consultants Kill Innovation? In the spirit of keeping things simple … Continue reading
Isotype Building Bridges
We are happy to share more historical sensemaking images from Humantific’s Isotype Collection. These are from 1943. In early Isotype studio work, one can find many great examples of sensemaking acceleration techniques that are still in use today, including the … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Clarity not Simplicity, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Isotype, Isotype / Vienna Method, Isotype Revisited, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method
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Before, During & After Isotype
At Humantific, we have tremendous respect for the work of the early Social SenseMaking pioneers, among them the central figures of Isotype Institute: Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Gerd Arntz (1900-1988) and Marie Neurath (1898-1986). In the Humantific Collection, we have numerous … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Clarity not Simplicity, Diagraming, From Hieroglyphics to Isotype, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, History of SenseMaking, Humantific’s Isotype Collection., Information Design History, International Picture Language System, Isotype, Isotype Institute, Isotype Revisited, Making Sense, Marie Neurath, Otto Neurath, Pictorial Charts, Pictorial Statistics, Pictures Unite, SenseMaker Dialogs, Statisical Visualizations, The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design, The Significance of Isotype, Understanding Isotype, Vienna Method, VisThink, Visual Explanations, Visualizing Data, Words Divide
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The Power of Your Mind
We love and respect innovation history. In the marketplace we see some experts running around claiming to have invented everything from integrative thinking to various forms of innovation. To us such claims are nonsense. We all stand on the shoulders of … Continue reading
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Tagged After Alex Osborn, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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Remaking Meaning?
Thoughts on AIGA’s One Day For Design Since a lot of what we do here at Humantific is upstream strategy cocreation with organizations as part of change making initiatives, we were somewhat puzzled to see how AIGA (formerly American Institute … Continue reading
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Tagged 1D4D (AIGA's 1 Day for Design), AIGA, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, Clarity not Simplicity, CoCreation, Collaboration, Design Research, Future of Design, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, NextD Geographies, ReRethinking Design, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Strategy Now, Transformation
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Architecture of Transformation?
We enjoyed reading the January 2011 issue of Architect magazine (“The Magazine of the American Institute of Architects”) entitled What’s Next?: Architecture in an age of Transformation. We recognized that many of the challenges raised in the feature article have … Continue reading
Humantific in Finland
Humantific CoFounder GK VanPatter will be giving several presentations on SenseMaking for ChangeMaking and working with faculty members at Savonia University of Applied Sciences and Kuopio Academy of Design in Finland Sept 14, 15, 16. To learn more about the PALMU UnConference at … Continue reading
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Tagged After Unconferences, Applied Creativity, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, Design Thinking, GK VanPatter, History of Creative Intelligence, Hybrid Thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Integrative Thinking Research, SenseMaking, Strategy CoCreation, Transformation
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Why “UnConferences” Disappoint
After attending many formally and informally structured events framed as “design thinking” sessions branded as conferences, workshops, meetings and unconferences we have observed several dialogue patterns that are relatively consistent. Many informal design thinking unconference-like events seem to reflect the … Continue reading
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Tagged After Unconferences, Beyond 100% Emergence, Beyond Service Design, ChangeMaking, CoCreation, Design Research, Design Thinking, History of Creative Intelligence, Innovation, NextD Geographies, SenseMaking, Transformation
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How to Think UP!
In the Humantific Innovation Archives we have many of the early books and papers from the history of creative thinking, applied imagination, applied creativity, creative problem solving, systems thinking, human intelligence, learning styles, structure of the intellect, etc. From time to time … Continue reading
Historical SenseMaking Research
Those studying the parallel universe histories of information architecture, information design, or sensemaking will know that long before Richard Saul Wurman, Edward Tufte, Karl Weik, Otto Neurath, Gerd Arntz, Isotype Institute, Jacques Bertin, Fritz Kahn, or Willard Brinton there existed … Continue reading
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Tagged Before Isotype, Before Jacques Bertin, Before Karl Weick, Before Richard Wurman, Edward Tufte, Gerd Arntz, GK VanPatter, History of Information Design, Information Design, Otto Neurath, Social SenseMaking, Visual Sense-Making, Visual Thinking, Visualization Research
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