Tangible Workshop for a New Operating Model

The Thought

Bringing together the executive team at a place by a lake to take an honest look at their current operating model and reshape it to become more customer centric.

The Shape

Alongside amazing consultants who guided the team through an intense process, I provided tangible materials, formats and images that helped them see their thoughts, stay focussed on them and give them shape.

A Comic to explain Change in an Organisation

The Thought

How to explain to a large number of stakeholders and cross-nationally operating teams the changes that are being made to the program organisation, and most importantly why they are taking place?

The Shape

I conducted visual interviews with each member of the leadership team where I carved out the storyboard of the story they jointly wanted to tell. The design output was a printed comic that was handed out to everyone at the international all-hands meeting. The comic told the story of their organisation and explained the changes that were going to be made as why these changes were necessary to make the organisation future-proof.

My Different for the CO13 annual event

The Thought

Every year, my client, the systemic consulting agency CO[13] who are by the way amazing at seeing and doing things differently, create an intimate and thought-provoking event for their clients. In 2014 the theme of their annual event was “Different”. They asked me to talk about my Digital Remains project during the event as well as come up with a creative format that would engage their clients with the part of them that is different from others.

The Shape

I set up a manual photo booth and did speed interviews with each participant of the event where I asked them about ‘their different’ in them. We had wonderful conversations and after each conversation, I visualised what I had heard and at the end of the event gave each of them their individual ‘My Different’-portrait.

I set up a ‘photo booth’ for interviewing and drawing ‘the different’ in 25 participants over the course of a day.

Photographs by Björn Reißmann
(Björn, I couldn’t find your website to link to, do contact me if you want me to link to your site!)

Graphic Recording on Design Thinking at SAP

The Thought

Petra Meyer brought me in to visualise the key thoughts, insights and results during her Design Thinking workshop around implementing Design Thinking at SAP HR.

The Shape

I used cards to visualise one insight per card so Petra and her team had images that were handy for their communication. I had suggested the card format to her after asking her about her intentions for communication after the workshop and the cards seemed more appropriate and visually stronger than the usual wallpaper-format for graphic recording. 

Yes, I actually used watercolour for my graphic recording :)

LernCoachies for Cornelsen

The Thought

Together with David Marx, Loki English and others, I worked on this project for the schoolbook publisher Cornelsen in which they aimed to offer a digital layer to their printed schoolbooks that would support learners in doing their homework.

The Shape

We started the process with a concept workshop where everyone shared their individual experiences of ‘doing their homework’ in their childhood – what worked and what didn’t work for them? – After coming up with the idea of little learning creatures, called ‘LernCoachies’ hovering on the digital book, explaining content and supporting learning, we went through a process of iterating specifications, prototypes and mock-ups until launching the final product.

SPD Kreativpakt Project

The Thought

The Kreativpakt-Project brings together creatives, politicians and the industry to improve the circumstances of the creative industry in Germany. Iniated by the German SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, representatives of all three groups came together in conversations and debates and agreed on six claims for the creative industry. My client, the SPD-Bundestagsfraktion asked me to be present throughout the process, take visual notes and visualise the conversations and results.

The Shape

Over the course of a year, I attended the work meetings of the Kreativpakt-Project with pen and paper in my hand. From my visual notes I created illustrations that supported the statements of the Kreativpakt postulates and made their way into the printed Kreativpakt-brochure.

The Kreativpakt Brochure

Visual Notes

Mirror Illustrations for openXchange

The Thought

My clients, Marina Ostrowski and  openXchange asked me: How can we engage our clients in advance to and during the openXchange annual conference in 2012 in a visually pleasing and unexpected way that conveys some of our core messages?

The Shape

Mirror Illustrations done by me in advance and by me and participants during the event. I visually captured openXchange’s core principles as well as some of the presentations during the event.

See Myself See Signage

The Thought

Beau Lotto asked me whether I could create signage for the exhibits in his ‘See Myself See’ exhibition and public event at the Wellcome Trust in London. How could his philosophy around perception be instilled in the signage?

The Shape

I created signs that mimicked classic vision test boards and put them on musical stands to hint on the phenomenon of synesthesia and how all our perception of the world is made up by our brains.

Making the Signs

Oh laser-cut letters, how much I love you!

“At My Service” Teacher Workshop for Cornelsen

The Thought

Christoph Link, product lead for digital content at Cornelsen Verlag approached me with idea to conduct a workshop for teachers that would shine a light on their needs around digital content in their teaching practice.

The Shape

I created and conducted together with Christoph a workshop, called “At My Service” that used the metaphor of an attractive menu of desirable foods served on plates to collect, cluster and discuss with teachers the kind of digital content that would truly serve them.

My School Visual Conversations

The Thought

Beau Lotto and Dave Strudwick asked me give shape to their thoughts and conversations during the ‘conversation phase’ of My School, a school programme they were creating.

The Shape

They had conversations with inspiring and inspired people such as Stephen Gage at the Bartlett, Wayne McGregor at the Random Dance Company and Jason Bruges at Bruges Studio and I drew and took note and distilled the content with them.

I gave form to the essence of these conversations in an iterative and collaborative process, using visual notes, illustrations, conversation cards, a web page and an architectural brief blue print.