Visualize. Actualize. Realize.
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The Crisis of Credit Visualized is a wonderful animated video explaining the Credit Crisis. Check it out here.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
We had Pictualized – Credit Crisis a while back. You can check it out here.
Our story starts from the point where credit (monetary) is provided to people who don’t really deserve it.
Hope you enjoy! Would look forward to your feedback. 
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Comics in education:
The potency of the picture story is not a matter of modern theory but of anciently established truth. Before man thought in words, he felt in pictures… It’s too bad for us “literary” enthusiasts, but it’s the truth nevertheless, pictures tell any story more effectively than words. (Sones, 1944, p. 239)
Comics as an educational tool has held the attention of teachers and academia for quite some time now. Coming from a tool to provide a non-animated entertainment to an age where movies are being based on such hit series, comics is a serious multi-million dollar business now. And, all the adulation is well deserved, comics fulfill the inherent ability of humans to visualize something in a better fashion and retain it for a longer period of time.
In Hutchinson’s (1949) experiment with a curriculum built around Puck – the Comic Weekly, 74% of teachers surveyed found comics “helpful for motivation” (p. 244), while 79% claimed comics “increased individual participation” (p. 244). One teacher even complained that comic books made “learning too easy” (Hutchinson, 1949, p. 244). When DC Comics, Thorndike, and Downes introduced their Superman language arts workbook to classrooms, they reported “unusual interest” (Sones, 1944, p.233) among the students, which “presented the annoying difficulty of causing the youngsters to complete a whole week’s task in one evening” (Sones, 1944, p. 233).
Here’s a snippet:
The source:
http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=4
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Discovered this extremely powerful presentation about “Thinking Visually“.
Highlights some crucial aspects of thinking visually in 4 “M”s:
as well as 6 steps to Thinking Visually:
Why does Visual Communication matter?
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An extremely exciting time to be moving, this is. We are thoroughly enjoying ourselves with our brain-smashing and creatively super-exciting work. And it feels even better when everyone around us recognizes our efforts.
In one such incident, one of our core team members – Vineesh ended up giving an interview to Mr. Himanshu Sheth – an entrepreneur and a blogger about Pictualize and Entrepreneurship in general.
The interview has been put online in two parts. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
Some excerpts about Pictualize are:
Everything starts with a problem, how did the concept of Pictualize arise ?
Pictualize, was born out of the realization that we need to change the current system of communication. It is just too ineffective, incomplete, lacking simplicity and possessing many other issues. The logical solution seemed pictures – the universal language, simple or complex, it is about expressing the core matter and with that came Pictualize.
Pictualize is a catchy name, which are the other names that you came up with while brainstorming & why did you choose Pictualize ?
Anirudh Maitra, our Idea Catalyst had put down numerous names for us to choose from. Pixlr8, Pictualate, and a variety of other names. Am not sure who exactly thought of Pictualize, but the moment it came onto the table we all fell in love with it instantly. Seemed to be love at first sight with the name and then the tag-line “Visualize. Actualize. Realize” followed almost effortlessly.
Who are the current team members and their roles?
Current team members are Aakanksha Gaur, who is currently our Visual Architect and she is the one who churns out all our imagination on paper.Anirudh is the idea catalyst and his wacky ideas are mostly out of this world. He leads in churning out ideas that rock, not just with us, but with others too.I am among the lesser mortals in awe of both of them, who gets to connect them to the rest of the world, i.e. bring us business and think about all the other things.Despite our roles being segregated, we all have an immense amount of fun, brain-jamming together and imagining and dreaming 
.You can know more about us here
Pictures speak louder than words, how do you guys ensure to bring the same creative feeling with each picture ?
It is precisely this effort that differentiates us from all the others who can doodle. We doodle, with a purpose and apply a lot of our mind to it. Three creative beings doing stuff they enjoy, certainly spew out tons of ideas and then it’s more or less a war to select the best.We don’t strive to maintain the creative feeling. The aim is to constantly improve.
What are some of the services that you are planning to offer like Marketing, Branding etc ?
More than marketing or branding, we are aiming to deal with “Communications”. As individuals we all have been brought up with a certain sanctity of the written word and an unusual fear of drawing. We intend to bridge this gap and bring visual communications and understanding within individuals as well as corporations as well as help everyone express themselves visually.
Our current services deal with creating visual presentations for corporations to reach out to their clients/customers in a more understandable and personalized way. Additionally, we are aiding in marketing efforts of our clients.
In the near term, we are targeting to move to clients like UNDP, Micro-finance organizations and NGOs that deal with a large number of people from different backgrounds and it is obviously tough to manage the diversity. We believe that we can offer some order in this chaos of communication through pictures.
For more of the interview check out – Part 1 and Part 2.
Warm regards,
The Pictualize Team
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