bikablo posters is finally on sale! It features flipchart templates, methodology posters and pictorial worlds for Visual Facilitators, Graphic Recorders and Visual Storytellers.   Wow – we are happy and proud we finally made it! This is the most sophisticated book on visual templates we ever conceived: With concepts and ideas from the world-wide visual practitioner community, bikablo posters brings to you 130 ready-to-use poster templates and a quick visualization training on paper – The book was developed and designed by the bikablo core team members Martin Haussmann, Julie Junginger and Stefan Böker and carries the whole experience of our trainer and alumni community...

How are you? I just wanted to check in and hope you and your loved ones are doing well. This is an unprecedented time in our history and the pandemic is having an impact on the way we live our daily lives.  How we navigate through this unique and evolving challenge will define us. Some helpful tips; Letting go, calms us and assures us that we can’t fix the world Patience as there are no quick fixes Trust that this too will pass Living in the present and focusing on the here and now Reaching out to people even virtually...

The importance of innovation became apparent when startups with new business models disrupted established industries many of which are still grappling with the changing business landscape.Businesses have realized the crucial role played by innovation labs to improve their current business processes, for dreaming up new ideas and to bringing them to fruition.Innovation labs use the methods of agile startups, with the aim of coming up with new ideas that can either disrupt or complement the overall company. They can work independently from the parent company and have the freedom to ideate away from corporate constraints.In an innovation lab brainstorming relies...

Do you think that diagrams, charts, curves and tables are boring? So did we! Until we met Stefanie Posavec, the author of „Dear Data“ and trainer of our Dataviz Drawing MasterClass on May 28. Looking forward to this great training, and inspired by her cheerful charts, the bikablo trainer team invented a clever decision-making technique „on the job“, while preparing an internal train-the-trainer event. Learn more on how we made data work for our intentions! Two weeks ago, a group of bikablo core team trainers met in our Cologne headquarters in order to share their skills and get ready for our three day Visual Storytelling...

Meaning, discernment, and the fascinating relationship between words and images – this is what visualization is all about. If you not only know the rules for visualization, but also know which conventional wisdom and beliefs you should toss out the window, it makes it easier to use translate concepts into visual language. Rules for Visualization, Part 1: The simpler, the better? Not necessarily. You could, of course, attempt to draw the world using only three lines – as long as it truly helped the observer to better understand your point. Usually, though, one of the greatest challenges for visualizers is...

Learning to visualise can be the same as learning a foreign language as these simplified pictograms can be learned like words that are used to create visual sentences. 

Martin Hausmann from Bikablo akademie has with precise German engineering, designed the Bikablo® technique which consists of clear rules, drawing techniques and a library of tried and tested visual terminology.