#141: Jono Hey – Build a Creative Practice That Sticks: Mastering Visual Thinking, 900+ Sketches, Deep Simplicity and Collaborating with Bill Gates

London Writers' Salon

Jono Hey, author of Big Ideas Little Pictures and creator of Sketchplanations, shares insights from over a decade of explaining the world through sketches.

We discuss:

• The power of visual thinking
• Building a new identity when changing careers
• Knowing when a piece is done and ready for publishing
• Tips to get started with sketching
• & lessons from long-term creative projects, including illustrating for Bill Gates.

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ABOUT JONO HEY
Jono Hey is the author and illustrator of Big Ideas Little Pictures, a collection of the best of Sketchplanations—his decade-long project dedicated to explaining complex ideas through simple sketches. With a background spanning academia, business, design, product development, and engineering, Jono has helped build two successful companies and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His work has been featured in Bill Gates’s book How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, and he co-hosts Sketchplanations – the Podcast, where he and two friends dive deeper into the ideas behind his sketches. Find his latest work at sketchplanations.com.

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RESOURCES

• 📑Interview Transcript
• Sketchplanations.com
• A Sketch a Day journal
• Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule by Paul Graham
• Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
• Big Ideas Little Pictures by Jono Hey
• Blurb (Book Printing)
• Jono’s Patreon

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