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With a lot of experience, you gain a lot of ideas and information to share. On our blog we share insights into our world, our ideas about visualization and visual thinking, the people that bring out work to life, updates on training, case studies and visualization tips.
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Our global training program 2023
At a glance and sorted by calendar: Here are our global trainings in 2023. We are convinced: there is also something for you. Stay tuned
Using Visuals in Coaching
How our global trainer Jill Greenbaum got into drawing and which impact visualization has got on coaching situations.
The bikablo x-mas calendar is back!
From the 1st to the 24th of December there will be a new door every day at the bikablo x-mas calendar on Instagram. Here our
bikablo Meetup 8. 11.: drawing transformation
In this global Iconize-it session, we will create an image library together on the topic of change. Join in!
Using pictures to promote a good climate: bikablo meets Fridays For Future
With “Fridays for Future” a fascinating worldwide youth movement has emerged. bikablo supported the summer congress in Dortmund with graphic recording and visualization trainings.
Closer than we thought: Visualization and Comics
What do graphic novels and graphic recording have in common? This is the question bikablo asked itself in a conversation with the comic artist Oliver Scheibler at the Comic Festival in Cologne. An experience report with surprising insights.
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The bikablo x-mas calendar is back!
From the 1st to the 24th of December there will be a new door every day at the bikablo x-mas calendar on Instagram. Here our
bikablo Meetup 8. 11.: drawing transformation
In this global Iconize-it session, we will create an image library together on the topic of change. Join in!
Using pictures to promote a good climate: bikablo meets Fridays For Future
With “Fridays for Future” a fascinating worldwide youth movement has emerged. bikablo supported the summer congress in Dortmund with graphic recording and visualization trainings.
UZMO – Thinking With Your Pen – The bikablo-Visualisation Guide now in English!
“UZMO – Thinking With Your Pen”, our standard work for Visual Storytelling, Visual Facilitation, Graphic Recording and Sketchnoting is now available in English!
bikablo Posters: Four Short Videos About Our Newest Visual Dictionary
We are delighted that our new visual dictionary bikablo posters book is resonating with our visual community since its release in December! Visual Storytellers, Graphic
Hybrid? Hyflex? Blended?
Presence meets Online takes you as a trainer, coach, expert, consultant, visualizer and facilitator on a journey through digital and analog dialog worlds and helps you to make the right decisions.
Reports & Case Studies
Using pictures to promote a good climate: bikablo meets Fridays For Future
With “Fridays for Future” a fascinating worldwide youth movement has emerged. bikablo supported the summer congress in Dortmund with graphic recording and visualization trainings.
Closer than we thought: Visualization and Comics
What do graphic novels and graphic recording have in common? This is the question bikablo asked itself in a conversation with the comic artist Oliver Scheibler at the Comic Festival in Cologne. An experience report with surprising insights.
How to create an educational radio soap with a pencil
Interview with visualizer Filippo Buzzini of ‘Sketchy Solutions’, who helped us with a project in West Africa.
A Look Inside bikablo E-xtraClass
How do I keep up after the basics training? With the bikablo e-xtraClass, the online format for practicing, exchanging and deepening! Trainer Michaela Ruhfus reveals what all basics graduates can now look forward to.
bikablo macht Schule gets reinforcement!
After mainly teachers have met with bikablo so far, our newest member is brain researcher Prof. Dr. Martin Hirsch with the “Visual Summary” approach.
Analog Meets Digital: Visually Capturing Conference Knowledge
Cross-media visual dialog accompaniment by bikablo bildwerk at the Forum Hochschullehre in Mönchengladbach
Tips, Tricks & Methods
Using Visuals in Coaching
How our global trainer Jill Greenbaum got into drawing and which impact visualization has got on coaching situations.
Digital visualization and tablets – Part 1: Tips, tricks and new possibilities
Visualization doesn’t always require paper and pen – using a tablet to draw is also a lot of fun! This has become especially true ever since the iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil together revolutionized digital illustration.
Using Visualization in Your Career – Something Everyone Can Do!
At a recent training session in Switzerland, I saw an excellent example of how to put visualization to use during a presentation: Thinking with the pen can be integrated into everyday work life in a wide variety of ways.
Clusters, Chunks and Hierarchies – Three Rules for Poster Visualization
Using posters to visualize complex topics or processes is an ideal way to facilitate clarity. Tips for what to pay attention to when preparing a visual presentation.
bikablo – A Quick Guide to Learning Essential Visual Vocabulary
Sketchnoting or visual note-taking works a lot like writing. To begin, you will need paper and a pen – and then some of the basic visual vocabulary that we’ve developed here at bikablo.
Learn Sketchnoting with bikablo – Part 1: What’s the Job of a Sketchnoter?
The creative technique of sketchnoting makes it easier to retain nuggets of information – and sharing information is one of the things we at the bikablo akademie love to do best.
Bikablo Bildwerk
How to create an educational radio soap with a pencil
Interview with visualizer Filippo Buzzini of ‘Sketchy Solutions’, who helped us with a project in West Africa.
The new Corona warning app in the explanatory film
With this animated explanatory film, we at bikablo would like to show how the federal government’s “Corona warning app” works, why it was developed, which technologies it uses (and which it doesn’t), and what role data protection plays.
The digital grab bag
A strategy image workshop spontaneously switched to online by bikablo bildwerk enabled surprising insights: Here are the five most important takeaways on virtual collaboration.
Analog Meets Digital: Visually Capturing Conference Knowledge
Cross-media visual dialog accompaniment by bikablo bildwerk at the Forum Hochschullehre in Mönchengladbach
What Makes a Graphic Recording Successful?
For our graphic recorders, process competence and experience in working with the client are crucial. bikablo visualizer Birgit Jansen reveals what it takes to provide meaningful visual accompaniment to a dialogue event.
The World to Corona: a Visualized Animation by bikablo
Futurologist Mathias Horx takes an optimistic look back at all the things that will have changed as a result of the Corona crisis. The bikablo
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The cooperation partners of bikablo
Together we are stronger! That is why we have chosen the best companions for our projects.
bikablo is Climate Neutral. What the Heck Does that Mean?
Since 2018, we are compensating the “carbon footprint” of the bikablo company. Our goal: to offset the amount of greenhouse gases that we produce each year through reductions or savings elsewhere.
bikablo Gives Back to Cap Anamur!
Giving something back to the world is a matter close to bikablo’s heart. That’s why we’ve been supporting Cap Anamur since our founding with the author proceeds from our industry bestseller “UZMO – Thinking with a Pen”.
