Comments on: The whirl

By: Reading the conversation cloud « Dachis Group Collaboratory

Reading the conversation cloud « Dachis Group Collaboratory — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:03:47 +0000

[...] to ancient times. We are throwing sticks and trying to read the stars. We try to read this whirl of information and look for patterns, but so far there has not been any systematic, quantitative approach to [...]

By: "There is nothing outside of the text" | just enough is more

"There is nothing outside of the text" | just enough is more — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:00:30 +0000

[...] Media shapes the way we think: [...]

By: We can all be visual thinkers, again. «

We can all be visual thinkers, again. « — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:42:48 +0000

[...] adults, we’re left with atrophied visual thinking skills in an information-saturated world. Dave Gray , founder of XPLANE, the visual thinking company, talks about the ‘whirl’ of [...]

By: Visual Rhetoric : clusterflock

Visual Rhetoric : clusterflock — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:42:03 +0000

[...] doing a series on visual rhetoric over at Marks and Meaning. The idea came from my thoughts about The Whirl and its relationship to visual [...]

By: passthebuck

passthebuck — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:32:11 +0000

I loved the anaology to the driver’s license. I am working on getting my organization to communicate more visually and this example is a solid and easy-to-grasp way for people to latch onto.

Thanks for your outstanding site and videos to help get Visual Thinking out into the world!

By: Liberal Arts 2.0 : clusterflock

Liberal Arts 2.0 : clusterflock — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:28:52 +0000

[...] inspired me to make a modest argument that the design is a form of rhetoric by springboarding off David Gray’s observations about information: Regardless of one’s pressuposition, however, it is clear that we live in a world where signs and [...]

By: Anti-Expertism » Blog Archive » “There is nothing outside of the text”

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:15:14 +0000

[...] Regardless of one’s pressuposition, however, it is clear that we live in a world where signs and signs of signs of things capture our imagination. We call these things media and when we are not consuming it, we are talking about it or trying to monitize it. Media drives the way we think. David Gray aptly opines about this in The Whirl: [...]

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:12:06 +0000

Hi Johnm,

As far as I know, no special software is needed. You might have him try it in a different browser.

Dave

By: johnm

johnm — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:05:49 +0000

Dave,
I enjoyed the “Whirl”, my work associate can not get the “Whirl” to play on his computer, doe he need a download?
Thanks
johnm

By: The Whirl And Visual Thinking «

The Whirl And Visual Thinking « — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:14:37 +0000

[...] visual language. (If the video is not working on your browser… blame vodpod… and click here, [...]