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New bikablo trainers in North America
It’s been eight years since we started explorting the North American visualization market. Jill Greenbaum and Jill Langer have made great progress in the US and Canada and we are grateful for all the work they did in the name of bikablo. Time flies and priorities shift, hence we ran a train-the-trainer program in New York just a couple of weeks ago and we now have new trainers and new energy with Melanie Taljaard and Jennie Hempstead.
Drawing Diversity and the Trans Day of Visbility
The seventeenth Trans Day of Visibility is taking place amid a year of global crises. In this blog post, Alyx Willems Lizano reflects on the
New: The Online Collection Finder with AI search functionality
Finally, you can search through the 1,300 icons, key images, scenarios, and templates in our Online Collections using keywords. Artificial intelligence makes it possible, and the results are—unsurprisingly—amazing!
Comics for Learning: How to Tell Stories That Inspire
Hand-drawn comics are more than entertainment: they are a powerful tool for educational content. We show you how to turn your messages into compelling stories.
Emotion Figures – Your Key to Vivid Visualization
With just a few strokes, create a big impact:
Learn how to draw figures that make emotions and interactions visible. Simple, systematic, and immediately applicable.
Visualization as a tool for dialogue in conflict regions
With a flipchart on my motorcycle, I reach remote border villages in northwestern Côte d’Ivoire. There it becomes clear: visualization can enable dialogue, build understanding, and mobilize communities toward shared solutions—even where words alone are not enough.
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New: The Online Collection Finder with AI search functionality
Finally, you can search through the 1,300 icons, key images, scenarios, and templates in our Online Collections using keywords. Artificial intelligence makes it possible, and the results are—unsurprisingly—amazing!
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
Reports & Case Studies
Visualization as a tool for dialogue in conflict regions
With a flipchart on my motorcycle, I reach remote border villages in northwestern Côte d’Ivoire. There it becomes clear: visualization can enable dialogue, build understanding, and mobilize communities toward shared solutions—even where words alone are not enough.
Pencil Selling: How visual thinking changes the way we sell complex services
Ever tried to explain something over the phone that felt almost impossible to describe with just words?
At bikablo, we believe in enabling people to think with the pen—even in banking, insurance, or tech. In situations where people need to explain complex products or services, a quick sketch—on a tablet or paper—can make all the difference.
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.
Tips, Tricks & Methods
Comics for Learning: How to Tell Stories That Inspire
Hand-drawn comics are more than entertainment: they are a powerful tool for educational content. We show you how to turn your messages into compelling stories.
Emotion Figures – Your Key to Vivid Visualization
With just a few strokes, create a big impact:
Learn how to draw figures that make emotions and interactions visible. Simple, systematic, and immediately applicable.
How to use your iPad instead of the webcam in MS Teams
Why do I want to connect the iPad to MS Teams (or Zoom)?
I would like to be able to show my iPad Screen as a tile in the normal Teams window. It should be subtle and not by sharing my screen to draw to much attention and to have a seamless switch between different views. I can i.e.
• document the meeting using OneNote or ProCreate
• easily zoom into pictures or drawing
• easily annotate pictures or digital whiteboards
• using the drawing feature while presenting your content
Design Thinking and Visual Thinking – a perfect fit?
In a recent interview Hiromi Hara speaks about her experience with applying the design thinking method with the help of visualization.
Hara explains that design thinking is not primarily about problem solving, rather about unveiling complex problems and getting better insight in the root cause of issues, hence the importance of the expression of individual perception and the comprehensible yet memorable depiction of thinking processes.
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.
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
Info topics
New: The Online Collection Finder with AI search functionality
Finally, you can search through the 1,300 icons, key images, scenarios, and templates in our Online Collections using keywords. Artificial intelligence makes it possible, and the results are—unsurprisingly—amazing!
Pencil Selling: How visual thinking changes the way we sell complex services
Ever tried to explain something over the phone that felt almost impossible to describe with just words?
At bikablo, we believe in enabling people to think with the pen—even in banking, insurance, or tech. In situations where people need to explain complex products or services, a quick sketch—on a tablet or paper—can make all the difference.
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”.