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Category: Scribing

Future/Forward — NAVA conference 2018

Posted on August 20, 2018March 31, 2019 by David

These are my notes from the last session at NAVA’s Future/Forward visual arts conference — a talk with Michaela Boland and Nicholas Pickard (sorry for misspelling, Nicholas), moderated by Esther Anatolitis.

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Select Committee into the Political Influence of Donations

Posted on November 3, 2017March 31, 2019 by David

I’m fascinated by lobbyists; the revolving door between lobbying and politics and the effect it has on the world. So when the Senate announced an inquiry into political donations I knew I wanted to pop along to the public hearings. Today’s was in Melbourne, so here’s my entirely editorial-free cartoon scribe. There’s a Canberra one…

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“The future direction for youth mental health?”

Posted on April 26, 2017March 30, 2019 by David

Went to a talk about youth mental health, scribed it. Relevant to work I’m doing at my day job right now.

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Scribing about scribing

Posted on November 17, 2014November 17, 2014 by David

“Scribing”, otherwise known as “graphic recording”, “graphic facilitation”, etc, is where an event is captured, often in real time, by an artist using words and pictures. You can be employed to do this, though I often do it on paper for my own benefit at conferences or talks I attend. This year I’ve had more…

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David Blumenstein

I’m a service designer, cartoonist and co-founder of Squishface Studio. I’ve done comics for The Guardian, Crikey and Australian MAD. Currently also deputy president of the Australian Cartoonists Association.

I usually write about things that shit me off, from bad bosses (The Bret Braddock Adventures) to pick-up artists (#takedown) to white supremacist trolls (The Internet’s Most Trolled Cartoonist) to predatory cults (Why Los Angeles is Scientology’s perfect city) and nasty tech bros (Octane Render: Cartoonists talk about A.I. art).

I’m working on graphic novels called Sciensatics (about cultists) and Free Money, Please (about wealth and passive income).

Sarah Howell

I regularly collaborate with my wife, Sarah Howell.

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