Dave Gray, of XPLANE pimps his recent interview on the User Experience Podcast:
Dave talks about giving ourselves permission to draw, about how the printing press led us to communicate in a particular way, and about how that can limit our communication in a digital environment, about how PowerPoint can be both inhibiting and comforting, and about how where we are with video today is where we were with PageMaker 20 years ago.
Highlights:
We all believe we can draw as children and then along the way we “forget” how to do it.
With regards to XPLANE’s visual style, it is an extension of their philosophy that everyone should be an artist and they try to make their infographics in a hand-drawn style.
Dave, who was already one of my favorite people of all time, encourages folks to use pen and paper so I’ll be shipping a case of Yuengling to Dave’s office.[^1]
The XPLANE culture map on Flickr is a great infographic and use of Flickr’s annotation tool.
[^1]: I realize that’s illegal. I also think Budweiser would intercept any tasty beer from entering the fair City of St. Louis.