1- Don’t respect boundaries when colouring Children don’t really care, and you know what? it looks really cool. To use this aesthetic tip get your highlighters. They make even more evident the color is out of the lines. 2- Color illogically A cat could be green, a man could be purple…

Two quick lessons from ancient Egyptian art can help us to improve our visual maps: 1) Perspective: Gaining speed When mapping a speech you don’t have time for details. If you apply too much detail and perspective to objects, the speech probably will leave you behind. Sometimes not drawing so…

Some years ago, I made one of my biggest professional mistakes. I was hired to make a visual recording in a live event for a big company. I had just arrived to Italy two years before and I couldn’t speak Italian very well. The speakers started talking. I started to…

If it’s easier to find Waldo in a “Where’s Waldo?” book than getting at least one relevant content in your visual map, it means your are doing it wrong. A common mistake when creating visual maps is to map absolutely everything you hear. The result of this bad habit is…

It is easier to explain it with a comparison. Sprinters and marathoners are athletes. The first ones run 42 kilometers long and the second ones 100 meters long, but they could never switch competitions. They have completely different physical characteristics. The marathoner has to be light because he must carry…