Illustration
Most artwork that we’ve created has followed Visual Thinkery’s 10 ideas process, which means that we explore multiple directions collaboratively using conversation.
![Illustrated by Penguins (GO-GN)](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/rainbow.png)
The -ism spectrum
Once a visual language is defined, there is so much you can do with it. Here’s a rainbow spectrum of Realism to Relativism, from the GO-GN Research Methods handbook.
![Mycelial Commonality - Platform Places community](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Mycelial-Commonality.png)
Mycelial Networks
This organic metaphor was a great community fit and continues to be used. Drawn live on a residential for community activists.
![Helping Open Research fly - GO-GN](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Helping-Open-Research-fly.png)
Helping research fly
Created for the GO-GN network.
![Curious Thoughts - ShapingEDU](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Curious-Thoughts.png)
Curious Thoughts
Global Cafe illustrations created for ShapingEDU – Arizona State Univerity.
![Takeaway Throwaway - ECOS](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Takeaway-Throwaway-ecos-branded.png)
Takeaway - Throw away
Created for ECOS with a nod to Nighthawks…
![Student Journeys - KPU](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Student-Journeys.png)
Wherever you are on your journey
Created for Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada.
![Digital Unite - Empower for a long life](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Digital-Unite-Empower-for-a-long-life.png)
Empower with...
This battery powered illustration was part of a project for Digital Unite.
![Open ETC - Ready to Run](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Open-ETC-Ready-to-Run.png)
Ready to run
Back to chickens. This time, we’re talking about open software stacks for Universities in Canada – via OpenETC.
![BFFP - Plastic Pellets on Beaches](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BFFP-Plastic-Pellets-on-Beaches.png)
Under the Carpet
This illustration comes from a campaign for BreakFreeFromPlastic on Plastic Pellets (aka nurdles, mermaid’s tears) that wash up on our beaches by the million.
![AmplifyFE - Community Map](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AmplifyFE-Community-Map.png)
Community Map
Here’s a map to show all the different elements of the online Further Education community in the UK. (AmplifyFE). Also created as a remixer app, so communities can add themselves visually to the map.
![DCU - Conscripted Words](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DCU-Conscripted-Words.png)
Conscripted Words
This thinkery is from an article written by Eamon Costello, Dublin City University on colonisation and scholarship.
![ALT - Strategy 2017](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ALT-Strategy-2017.png)
CMALT Principles
You can read all about these CMALT principles and how they were visualised here.
![Manchester University - 10 rules](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Manchester-University-10-rules.png)
Coding your Future
10 simple rules for Coding Your Future – a project with Duncan Hull, University of Manchester.
![Social Impact - Platform Places](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Social-Impact.png)
In the walls
Created as a result of a trip to Liverpool with Platform Places.
![Open ETC - Warhol Rooster](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Open-ETC-Warhol-Rooster-2.png)
Warhol Rooster
Who says that a chicken can’t be iconic? Check out more chicken-shenanigans at the Open Ed Tech Co-op (OpenETC).
![Kill your darlings - Digital Storytelling](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Kill-your-darlings.png)
Kill your darlings
Created as part of a set on Digital Storytelling for Queen’s University Belfast.
![Timmus - Complicated Environments](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Timmus-Complicated-Environments.png)
For prickly situations
We explored some of what makes Timmus a great organisation to work with.
![Plastic Lifecycle Approach - INC](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Plastic-Lifecycle-Approach.png)
Plastic Lifecycle Approach
Created live as part of INC-3 proceedings for BreakFreeFromPlastic.
![Creative Commons vs Copyright](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Creative-Commons-vs-Copyright.png)
Protection + Permission
Here’s something I never really appreciated about Creative Commons, which seems very obvious now. CC licensing is built on top of Copyright law. It’s not either-or. This illustration is from CC Certification programme (Myanmar remix).
![Creative Commons - Opens many doors](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Creative-Commons-Opens-many-doors.png)
CC opens beautiful doors
This illustration is from CC Certification programme (Myanmar remix).
![Amazine Prompts](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Amazine-Prompts.png)
Ama-zine prompts
Created as part of a Zine-making session at OER19 in Galway.
![ALT - Strategy 2020](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ALT-Strategy-2020.png)
ALT Strategy
This thinkery was created to represent the ALT strategy. You can see the ALT 3-year strategy in action here.
![Hack Education Typewriter Logo](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Hack-Education-Typewriter-Logo.png)
Typewriter (Hack Education)
Read more about the process of creating thinkery for Hack Education.
![OER - Open to all](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/OER-Open-to-all.png)
Remixable OER
This graphic was originally created for the OER17 conference, but also became one of the early apps on the Fabulous Remixer Machine.
![CESI - Our Evolving Learning Landscape](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CESI-Our-Evolving-Learning-Landscape.png)
Learning Landscape
This thinkery, exploring the evolving landscape of Computer Science teaching and learning in Ireland was created for CESI2020.
![Zooming Pigeons (Hack Education)](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/pigeon.png)
Zoom Pigeon
Here are Hack Education’s pigeons saying quite a lot about a zoom education. Why pigeons? Read more here.
![The big hockey game - GO-GN](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/The-big-hockey-game.png)
10 year Meetup
A 10-year celebratory meetup in Canada? These cartoons nearly draw themselves… Created for GO-GN
![Visual Thinkery - Achilles Heel to Superpower](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/UFI-Webinar-Achilles-Heel-to-Superpower-1.png)
Achilles Heel to Superpower
This is how I understand the journey of how Visual Thinkery came to be.
![OU - Perfect for Brave Learning](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/OU-Perfect-for-Brave-Learning.png)
Open Programme
A single conversation with the OU’s Open Programme team resulted in a set of illustrations.
![AI Transformer - GO-GN](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Transformer-.png)
OctoAI
A many-tentacled metaphor to represent AI for the Open University.
![CESI - CESIcon 2020](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CESI-CESIcon-2020.png)
When I need help
This illustration uses the aesthetic of Scratch, which is appropriate for the audience it’s trying to reach. This thinkery was created for CESI2020.
![ALT - Collaboration](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ALT-Collaboration.png)
Collaboration
This thinkery was created to represent one of the values of ALT. You can see the ALT 3-year strategy in action here.
![DCU - Novus Imperium](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DCU-Novus-Imperium.png)
New Empire
This thinkery is from an article written by Eamon Costello, Dublin City University on colonisation and scholarship.
![Digital Unite - Digital Skills](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Digital-Unite-Digital-Skills.png)
Empower to change
This battery powered illustration was part of a project for Digital Unite.
![ALT - One Small Step](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ALT-One-Small-Step.png)
Our year's progress
This lunar thinkery was created to give a visual summary of ALT’s progress.
![Adam Proctor - Collect, Organise, Persue](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Adam-Proctor-Collect-Organise-Persue.png)
Collect - Organise - Pursue
These animalistic representations were created for Adam Proctor and his open tool, NodeNoggin.
![GO-GN penguin](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GO-GN-penguin-ls.png)
Gone Swimmin'
A little humour goes a long way. Here’s a friendly face from the GO-GN Research Methods handbook.
![Open Asynchronous Pedagogy (CESI)](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/open-pedagogy.png)
Open Asynchronous Pedagogy
This thinkery was created for CESI2020, and came directly from our collaborative conversation with the conference committee.
![Open with Care (GO-GN)](https://visualthinkery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/open-with-care.png)
Open with Care
Once an appropriate aesthetic is discovered, everything can be translated. The Golden Age of Travel requires a suitcase.