The Sketchnote Workbook Launch! – Rohdesign – Designer Mike Rohde

THE DAY HAS COME! The Sketchnote Workbook launches today! I’ve heard that some orders are already being shipped because the books are arriving sooner than expected. What an exciting week!

If you haven’t ordered your own copy of The Sketchnote Workbook yet, order today at Peachpit, or at Amazon. Other options include: Barnes & Noble, Powells, or IndieBound. For bulk orders, use 800-CEO-READ.

I’ve had access to a preview copy and have followed the making of this book for some time. Mike is a good friend and an unbelievable talent. With that said, this book is an outstanding “next-step” followup to his excellent first book, The Sketchnote Handbook. The Workbook walks you through some more advance techniques and ideas for incorporating sketch notes as a daily practice. Even if you think you suck at drawing (as I do), this book gives you the skills to practice that can only make you better over time. This, in my opinion, is a must have book in your collection.

Sharpie Clear View Highlighter – OfficeSupplyGeek

Highlighting with the Sharpie Clear View Highlighter is a pretty eye opening experience. I usually find myself struggling to keep a consistently straight line when I use a highlighter, so these make a huge difference when it comes to my lack of any highlighting skills. The bright pink (yellow, orange and green available too) stripe in the tips window acts as a guide that you can align with the center or bottom of your text to ensure a nice even highlight across the page.

I too, suffer this same problem. I use highlighters all the time to mark up the non-fiction books I read.Therefore, I’m pretty excited to try these myself.

Learning to Write Again | David Alastair Hayden

Writing by hand is visceral, intimate, engrossing. Normally, I never smile as I write, unless a particular scene or line of dialogue amuses me. When writing on the computer, I wear my serious face practically all the time. Writing a draft by hand, however, makes me smile frequently, for no obvious reason. I look and feel contented while writing by hand. That is definitely a good thing.

Yep. Me too.

I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That? – NYTimes.com

I use a manual typewriter — and the United States Postal Service — almost every day. My snail-mail letters and thank-you notes, office memos and to-do lists, and rough — and I mean very rough — drafts of story pages are messy things, but the creating of them satisfies me like few other daily tasks.

Great piece.

Vesper Review by Josh Ginter

This is the moral of my Vesper story. It fits into my analog workflow better than any other notetaking app. And it took me a bloody long time to realize it.

The rare review where the workflow described starts with the digital then moves to the analog. We approve.

The Erasable “Pencil is Forever” T-shirt

A nice shirt with a good message that supports our friends at the Erasable Podcast. Sign me up!

Pennaquod : Pen Blog Searcher

A new targeted search tool making the work of searching multiple pen, pencil, and paper blogs (including this one) from one place far easier.

Visual Notes

Thoughts on visual note taking, graphic recording, visual harvesting, concept drawing, model drawing and visual thinking. From favorite markers to facilitation challenges.

An instant follow for me.

The Handwriting of Type Designers

A type designer’s handwriting is intriguing in the sense of several things like: Do they exert extraordinary pen control compared to a layperson? Did their handwriting somehow influenced the typefaces they created? Is handwriting no longer needed or useful given the rise of digital communications?

OK, this is fascinating. I definitely see the similarities in may of the cases presented.