Pinkfish.ca is the Web site of Reilly Dow, a freelance graphic recorder based in Toronto, Ontario.

She is available for graphic work in English and Spanish.

Ryerson students: Looking for graphic study notes? Please email reilly.dow@ryerson.ca.

News

06/24/10

Reilly recorded a conversation among girls from each of the G20 countries at the first ever G(irls) 20 Summit. The representatives spoke about intergenerational leadership and the importance of role models and mentors in their lives, and their conversation was very inspiring.

05/11/10

Reilly was in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, recording sessions at the University of the Environment. She had the pleasure of recording conversations lead by several fantastic facilitators and thinkers, and she also took the floor herself, during her presentation on visual thinking and graphic recording.

04/30/10

Many students took advantage of Reilly’s graphic study notes during final exams at Ryerson University in Toronto. Reilly makes hand-drawn graphic representations of course material to use as a study aid. You can see examples on Pinkfish’s Facebook page.

04/14/10

Reilly went to Arbor Glen P.S. to show students that the information and ideas they’re learning about at school can be translated into visuals. See how the charts turned out in the Portfolio section.

09/30/09

New updates in the Portfolio section from work with Wilfrid Laurier University’s Student Leadership Centre in Waterloo and the University Health Network in Toronto. There’s also a video of Reilly recording Joanna Macy’s talk in June - take a look!

08/23/09

Reilly was interviewed by Bill Henry for the Sun Times. The chart she created to explain the value of graphic recording can be viewed in the Portfolio section.

08/15/09

At the Summerfolk Music Festival in Owen Sound, Reilly made custom-made band posters for three groups while they created original pieces of music during the JumbleJam workshop. She listened in on their creative process and wove it into visuals. The posters were on stage while each group performed their song later that evening.

08/05/09

Reilly attended her first IFVP conference in Montreal this year. See an example of the graphics she created while at the conference in the Portfolio section. (The chart is a recording of a talk by Seth Godin entitled The Tribes We Lead).

07/30/09

In collaboration with visual artist Moira Campbell, Reilly created a walking map of the downtown area of the city of Owen Sound, ON, to be used at the Streets Alive! festival in August. Their map can be viewed in the Portfolio section.

06/19/09

Reilly recorded a talk by Joanna Macy entitled The Great Turning in Guelph, ON. The event was part of a week-long retreat hosted by the  Sacred Wisdom Centre.

05/26/09

Ikujiro Nonaka, author of Managing Flow, includes the following stage in the developmental path to knowledge creation in companies (italics added):

“Externalization entails the translation of tacit experience into words and images that can be shared with a larger group. For example, a manager might invite a seasoned team of frontline workers to design a training manual that describes their own tacitly acquired skills. Metaphors can be highly effective in conveying the feeling of workplace experience. A product team at Matsushita Electric Industrial Company charged with building a high-speed clothes dryer that operated by means of centrifugal force used the image of stir-frying in a Chinese wok to describe the quick, short bursts of movement that would make a rotating drum efficient.”

The translation of tacit experience into words and images, the use of metaphors to convey experience and knowledge - seems to me like he’s talking about graphic recording!

Check out the rest of the article here.

05/13/09

Read local artist Jackie Damato’s take on Reilly’s work and Pinkfish.ca. (PDF)

03/21/09

Reilly recorded a weekend of presentations, conversations and World Cafe sessions for the Universidad del Medio Ambiente (University of the Environment) in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

03/18/09

Reilly did three days of recording for Philip Morris Mexico in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

03/14/09

Reilly recorded a World Cafe about possibilities for the Boyne River Nature Centre hosted by Nancy Sendell and facilitated by Context Management Consulting.

02/04/09

Reilly is mentioned on Rob Court’s blog, The Scribbles Institute. Cheers, Rob!

02/04/09

Reilly recorded Metrix Group’s World Cafe for strategic planning in Toronto.

10/13/08

Reilly recorded a conversation for ALiA (formerly the Shambhala Institute) regarding future possibilities for their network in Ontario.

07/09/08

In June, Reilly had the pleasure of working with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Mexico City, acting as graphic recorder for a World Café dialogue entitled Vulnerable Children, Families and Communities. In August, she recorded three more conversations from the same series, regarding food and nutrition, education and learning, and economic development in Mexico and Central America. (The results were very well-received and can be viewed in the Portfolio section.)