By combining different elements of visual vocabulary, you can develop your own visual language. If you take a playful approach to this, you will often come up with unusual visual translations of the topic under discussion. In combining different vocabulary elements, we use a technique similar to one that the German language is famous for – a grammatical concept called “compound nouns.” In English, we use this technique, too, for words like “notebook,” “skyscraper,” or “sunshine” – but the German language really takes these compound nouns to a new level, with words like “Schlüssel-Bild” (key visual) or “Hochhaus” (literally, high...

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...