France changing landscapes

On the way home through France just below Lyon, our next stop. Mountains fading in the distance.. Smell of fresh summer rain washed away by the strong sun.

Italian coast

Rough edges with houses miraculously attached here and there, the Ligurian coast.. I have this drawing and a collection of pebbles to take me back every now and than.

Mobypicture – now.holland.com stats, an infographic

For the finals of the WC2010 Netherlands vs Spain Mobypicture build a platform now.holland.com that aggregated tweets and moby’s for all of us to see how ” our boys  ” were doing. No need to tell you that this was very successful.

After summer rain

Quick drawing of the Dutch polder after a good summer rain storm on my way to my parents. Love the simple dark but bright colours, so I kept it simple.

Visual Thinking; Making bigger ripples

-“Visual Thinking? Isn’t that something like mindmapping?” Well yes, it is one way  to visualize an information stream. -“That is a clever trick, that sketchnoting!” Well yes, it is helpfull and everyone can learn it. But there is far more to it!

Social media, more than the newest hype?

There are still those that are not convinced that social media have a real chance of existence, who still perceive Facebook and twitter as the next hype. Still these are also the ones that without questioning use Youtube as their number one search engine for music and funny video’s. Social media is all around us. […]

Pale winter sun

I love the pale winterblue skies, with the faint orange as the sun sets in the late afternoon. Makes me take of my gloves and shoot pictures untill my fingers go numb.

Stop arguing, accept it; the world of our children is changing

Yesterday, when trying to explain  the concept of generation gap to my kids, I realized once again that their view of the world and their expectations are already tuned in into new possibilities and innovations. On finding out that my friend didn’t have internet until age 16, simply because it didn’t exist, my daughter exclaimed; […]

LeWeb09; Looking back.

Loic and Geraldine leMeur, the organizing couple behind LeWeb, can again look back on a successful two days of conference. More participants than last year, international keynote speakers, chatsessions and many workshops and startup presentations. An overview in sketchnotes:

LeWeb09, early morning kickoff

Here I am, as I wrote earlier I was really looking forward to sketch on LeWeb09. And here I am. The Line up is looking promising and we have wifi and it is nice and warm. Loic and Geraldine Lemeur opened the Two day conference this morning with their introduction, announcing that this year is […]