Coming SOON! Visual Thinking Workshops
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Creative Ways to Solve Business Problems |
Driving Business Results through Clear Communication
Visual thinking workshops are designed to arm you with the tools,
techniques and knowledge necessary to become more effective
communicators. These proven visual thinking techniques will to drive
understanding, alignment and effective
communication throughout your organization.
Upcoming workshops in London and Geneva
For more information click here.
Benefits of Visual Thinking Workshops
Discover a new and efficient way to communicate
Understand the basics of drawing and visual language
Understand visual communication and how the brain processes information
Discover techniques to distill complex topics and organize ideas
Learn how to structure a clear, simple and engaging presentation
Discover the art of visioning goals to make them more tangible and actionable
XPLANE's specialized visual consultants are going to be in your
area soon, bringing visual-thinking insight, tips and tools to your
organization.
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Interesting Links: |
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XPLANE featured on CNN
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Communication Nation
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Dave Gray. INFO
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Earth 2030: What Does the Future Hold? |
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Using Visuals to Address Climate Protection and Suggest Positive Actions |
Today there are 6.5 billion people in the world - in 2030, there will
be 8.3 billion. It is estimated that with this increase, global energy
consumption will increase by 53 percent, placing a greater strain on
our resources and climate.
By 2030, what will the future hold?
XPLANE has developed the animated movie,
Earth 2030 for global
BASF Group
- the world's leading chemical company. Earth 2030 is a four-minute
production that articulates in a visual and compelling way the future
of the world's climate while inspiring viewers to take positive action
by being more
efficient and conscientious of their energy usage.
Click here to view Earth 2030: short version
Click here to view Earth 2030: full version
"At BASF we continually improve energy efficiency each and every day
through the development of our products and the way we do business,"
said Christian Schubert, Director Corporate Communications BASF Group.
"As for communications we
looked for an easy to understand and compelling way to make a wider
public aware of how the growing energy demand will effect our future -
and motivate people to think of of their individual contribution to
make a difference. The XPLANE
team did a great job of helping us convey our messages and
communicating them in a highly innovative and creative way."
Through a series of strategic visual collaboration sessions, XPLANE
and BASF identified the key messages that needed to be communicated in
the movie and what illustrations would convey these messages most
clearly to viewers. Hand-drawn
with modern style lines the animations in Earth 2030 are organic and
move slightly as the viewers watch. Elements are "drawn" onto the
screen, and then "erased." Much of the animation is light artwork over
a dark background and
accompanying copy was designed to match the illustration style. The
movie is currently available in English,
German and
Japanese, and will be translated in further languages like French, Portuguese and Spanish.
"The creation of Earth 2030 was very much a collaborative effort
between XPLANE and the team at BASF, making us all very proud of the
finished product," said Antonio Robert, general manager for
XPLANE EMEA.
"By bringing together XPLANE consultants, designers and key decision
makers at BASF, we were able to create a movie that is powerful,
thought-provoking and artistically ahead of the curve."
According to BASF, energy efficiency is the most important single
future source of energy to supply the growing energy demand and to
protect the climate. Being energy efficient in industry, mobility and
housing will offer the biggest
potential to use energy more efficient. Just through energy efficiency,
and with already existing technologies, it's possible to significantly
curb predicted increasing global energy demand and thus the
CO2-emissions by the year 2030.
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XPLANE team did a great job of helping us convey our messages and
communicating them in a highly innovative and creative way. |
Christian Schubert
Director Corporate Communications
BASF Group |
And remember, all you visual thinkers...
VizThink Europe '08 is just around the corner!
Click here to register now!
Destination: Berlin, Germany
Location: Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre
Dates: October 12-14, 2008
Registration Fee: 700 euros
Click here for more details
Enter the special XPLANE discount code SCX01 to receive 50 euros off the registration fee at checkout.
What is
VizThink?
VizThink
is gathering visual thinkers from all corners of the world to create
the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all
forms of learning and communication.
Here are just some of the ways
XPLANE is involved with VizThink Europe '08:
Dave Gray, our founder and chairman, will be facilitating a pre-conference workshop on visual thinking skills
Rodolfo Carpintier, one of our investors, will be facilitating a
pre-conference workshop on entrepreneurship for visual thinking
businesses
Dave Gray will be facilitating one of the breakout sessions
Pablo Ramirez, information graphics expert and member of our Madrid office, will be facilitating one of the breakout sessions
XPLANE will be exhibiting at the event
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Supporting Links: |
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VizThink |
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VizThink Europe '08 Registration |
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VizThink Blog |
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