I wanted to take a moment to thank you for the links and publicity of the notes I took of Nicholas Felton's awesome Master Class last week. They were rough and not touched up, a raw intimate outpouring of mental processdoodling and visual grey matter jaunts and journeys.
One of the remarkable things about clearing one's mind and just writing/drawing/outpouring onto a large, blank sheet of paper that stretches out before you is how the senses sharpen. You can sense the give of the moist sharpie tip on the stock of paper terrain, you can hear the speaker clearly and totally as their voice reverberates down from your brain and distills into your capable finger tips and out through your moving pen, you feel free to run after and chase the visual butterflies that flit through your mind in association to the words heard, noting each fabric layer of the air that carries the promise of a blank page and your visual connections to it. Most of all, its just about having fun... and drawing rocket ships.
Your support, tweets, RTs, tumblr love and blogs have blown me away this week. Benjamin Franklin once said, "Never confuse motion with action." Thank you for finding value, taking the action and sharing Nicholas Felton's great teaching in the form of my notes with others. I appreciate you! I hope the notes help you take away some key points for your designs and inspire you in your creative journeys of Doing and Becoming. They are yours to do with whatever you please. If they happen to inspire similar notedoodle taking of this Master Class, please send me yours! I'd love to see them.
In fact, I challenge you to listen to the Master Class and do your own notes-- I'll post them here. It'd be great to see your processdoodles! If you do so, most of all, have fun with it and be silly. Carpe sharpie.
Last, a big thanks to one of my design heroes, Mr. Nicholas Felton. Thank you for teaching the Master Class course on how you do what you do that has delighted millions over in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, Real Simple, etc... and the Feltron Annual Reports. You also may know his style as it inspired the stats on Foursquare. Most of all, merci, Mr. Felton for your kind words and support.
You rock my information design world.