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The Drawing Board Learn to draw the shortest line from problems to solutions, innovation, and collaboration from New Yorker cartoonists. We did tons of research.

New Yorker cartoons have been the standard of creative insight for 90+ years. We had a hunch there was something special about HOW they were made that juiced the cartoonists’ creativity. We discovered we were wrong. It’s not “something” special. It’s EVERYTHING about the mental process—the playfulness, the visual metaphor, the simple act of making marks on paper. It catalyzes creative breakthrough

s. And it can spark innovation in your business just as well. We have New Yorker cartoonists ready to show you how.

The secret to humor is surprise-Aristotle
10/29/2024

The secret to humor is surprise
-Aristotle

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.~Oscar Wilde
08/27/2024

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~Oscar Wilde

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.~E.B. White
03/12/2024

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
~E.B. White

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him ...
08/05/2023

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ~Vaclav Havel

11/23/2021

✏️ Noodling out ideas visually with pencil and paper works miracles inside your brain.

If you mean business about innovation and creativity, learn more about our upcoming workshop with New Yorker cartoonists Emily Flake and Matt Diffee that will change the way you think about work, life, and… well, everything.

https://www.cartoonists.com/play

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11/18/2021

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Change is inevitable. To stay in business, you have to see when to pivot, bounce back, stay a step ahead. But how do you...
11/18/2021

Change is inevitable. To stay in business, you have to see when to pivot, bounce back, stay a step ahead. But how do you do that with vaguely defined or shifting problems?

With pencil, paper & play!

Join New Yorker cartoon legends Emily Flake and Matt Diffee for a two-and-a-half hour, interactive online workshop on Dec. 4th that will change the way you think about work, life, and… well, everything.

What You’ll Learn:

✏️ Identify the problems hiding behind the problems. The bugs in whatever bugs you about change.

✏️ Develop powerful visual tools for meeting day to day challenges at work and home

✏️ Reframe specific short and long term challenges to reveal unexpected insights, solutions, and strategies for adaptation and resilience

SIGN UP HERE:
https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=24568745 #

LEARN MORE HERE:
https://www.cartoonists.com/play

11/18/2021

Creation Began with a Cartoon

A cartoon by Matt Diffee.
11/18/2021

A cartoon by Matt Diffee.

A cartoon by Emily Flake.
11/18/2021

A cartoon by Emily Flake.

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