#visualnotes

[everythingaboutbiotech]

Hey students, if you have a choice of presenting your information in tables or graphs, choose the graph. Want to know why: 🔽

Graphs showcase trends, relationships, and key takeaways in a format the mind grasps faster than rows and columns. When you need to drive home critical data or demonstrate complex connections, graphs speak volumes.

Focus the spotlight on what matters most. Eliminate distractions with clean axes, labels, and legends tailored to the story you want to tell. Guide the viewer's eyes towards revelations, not footnotes.

But don't abandon tables altogether. Sometimes specifics and precise figures need the clarity tables allow. Use graphs to pull out patterns and messages, then turn to tables when the raw numbers themselves hold meaning.

With intentional design, graphs grab attention and spark "Aha!" moments. Tables serve as vital references to ground insights in accuracy. Together, they become a powerful communication duo.

The right balance drives home your data-driven point quickly, clearly and credibly. Let purpose guide your mix of visuals. Whether tables or graphs, let the numbers speak.

👉Do you agree with me? Let me know in the comments.

[fiorenzoborghi]

2025

Nothing extraordinary happened. And yet, you looked twice.

[fatema678]

"Get started with Sketchnoting to Communicate and Engage | Ashton Rodenhiser tell stories sketchnotes

https://youtu.be/YMN27gJRDXU

#sketchnoting #leadership #communication #sketchnotes"

[rifkisyabani]

Rezeki itu bukan saja yang tampak, terlihat, terkuantisasi, atau pun terpindai oleh panca indera. Syukur kita pun jangan pula hanya pada tahta, harta ataupun cinta, karena semuanya itu ujian, belum tentu jadi anugerah apalagi berkah. "Yang halal pasti dihisab, sedangkan yang haram pasti diazab." ....😭😭😭.... #sketch #visualnotes #sketchnote #nasehat #reminder #note #coretanrifki #draw (at Jakarta, Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMPaOdAM_l4/?igshid=156fql5iomebh

[thepareidolickid]

Final Year Outdoor Throw🔙 Jan 21 to 23, 2020 Modelled by Laxmi Amma. Spent some warm time painting with this little companion. SWIPE till last see the latest and probably my last work as a student in JJ :’) ... (Colours in the photo might be slightly altered from the original painting) . . #outdoorportrait #sirjjschoolofarts #outdoorpainting #nostalgia #whoisakshataprabhu #mypostisart #visualnotes #visualart #contemporaryart (at JJ) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLZGOcjS5h/?igshid=1di8aikwd0yuh

[owenrichards]

Detail - Studio of Andy Welland, 2019⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #studio #artist #andywelland #creator #creative #painter #contemporaryart #urbanart #designer #sketchbook #process #desk #atwork #paintsplatter #marks #markmaking #woodendesk #texture

[dsetc2l]

I do not know about you but me my sketchbook follows me everywhere ... we are not immune to an idea. 🧘🏻‍♀️🍭👩🏻‍🎨✍🏻 . . . . #visualnotes #goodnotes #studynotes #doodleart #doodles #doodlesketch #iloveprettynotes #drawingmood #drawthisinyourstyle #drawing #notestagram #showmeyournotebook #showmeyournotes #drawingeveryday #stationeryaddict #stationerylover #art #artjournal #journaling #sketchbook #artofinstagram #sharingart #tumblr #notestagram #drawings #draw (à Ile-de-France, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B03aFTOHW_a/?igshid=1e75ocmxloqmg

[manishalaroia]

⭐Recipe Doodle⭐ __ The recipe for the Lemon Tender cake with blueberry compôte from the last post! Loved making the cake as much as the doodle! . . #doodledo #sketchnote #nigellalawson #cakes #recipe #sketching #bulletjournal #visualnotes #mindmap #doodling #scribbing https://www.instagram.com/p/Byt16WZndM7/?igshid=6ke8dkiumy6n

[chiararturo]

cercando #insula. #visualnotes #mobilephotography #map #island #mediterraneo #white (presso Mar Mediterraneo) https://www.instagram.com/chiararturo/p/Buv5fGsAunF/?igshid=1l9ol8zlyyby3

[therewasabrowncrow]

Today’s visual notes from Dichotomisation of Caste and Class by Anand Teltumbde: Villainy of Marx’s Metaphor

This critique of upper caste trade unionists in India by Teldumbde sir reminded me of Sundari Anitha’s piece about British trade union bosses refusing to address matters of race and gender for pretty much the same reasons during the Grunwick strikes 

I hope I have been able to visualise these concepts --tbh they’re still fuzzy in my head. 

TRANSCRIPT!

The main factor that created the dichotomy of caste and class is the Marxian metaphor of base and superstructure, which, as understood by the so-called Marxists, valorised economic struggles proxied by classes and relegated the rest to superstructure. This concept, evolved in a small number of writings of Marx and Engels, came into existence as a template for historical materialist analysis. The early communists in India typically were from the educated middle class Brahmin (upper caste) youth, inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. They were fed on a diet of literature and other resources smuggled from Britain and Russia. They naturally began their activities with trade unions, which, in fact, had cropped up much before the communist party was formally founded in 1925. Their confrontation with castes was limited to organisational contradiction within trade unions through a small minority of Dalit workers, which they wanted to avoid. The lack of appreciation of the gravity of caste oppression, the fear of organisational break-up, and the absence of reference to the issue in communist theory pushed them to cling to a Marxist metaphor of base–superstructure, assuming that castes belonged to the superstructural realm, which was taken as “determined” by the determinant “base” of economic structure. The entire behaviour of the communist parties vis-à-vis castes is explained by the mechanical reading of this metaphor. It is only lately, notably after the eruption of the Naxalite movement, which, with its rural roots, had to face castes in a big way, that the patch-up in the interpretation of this metaphor began. Most Naxal factions have refined their stand towards the caste question and some of them have veered around to see caste as part of both, base as well as superstructure. None have, however, really discarded it as useless. This metaphor of Marx has a controversial history. In his early writings, Marx did not separate base from superstructure. It is in 1852, in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Napoleon Bonaparte, that Marx first introduced the term “superstructure.” It is only in 1859 that he presented his clearest account of the base– superstructure concept in the Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. There is no need to separately stress that Marx wrote it in a dialectical sense, but his followers enthusiastically picked it up as the simplistic explanation of historical materialism. Neither the base nor the superstructure is an object, nor are they static. The superstructure, to some extent, is conditioned by the base, but it is not rigidly determined by it, and rather it could autonomously exert reverse influence on the base itself. By 1890, the incorrect usage of this metaphor became so rampant that Engels had to intervene. In his letter to Starkenburg, he wrote (on 25 January 1894),

Political, juridical, philosophical, religious, literary, artistic, etc, development is based on economic development. But … [I]t is not that the economic situation is cause, solely active, while everything else is only passive effect. There is rather interaction on the basis of economic necessity which ultimately always asserts itself.

Again in a letter to a German student Joseph Bloch (21–22 September 1890), he stressed his point saying,

Marx and I are ourselves to blame for the fact that young writers sometime lay more stress on the economic side than is due to it. According to the materialist view of history, the determining factor in history is, in the final analysis, the production and reproduction of actual life … Now if someone distorts this by declaring the economic moment to be the only determining factor, he changes that proposition into a meaningless abstract, ridiculous piece of jargon.

Ellen Meiksins Wood perceptively observed,

‘The base/superstructure metaphor has always been more trouble than it is worth. Although Marx himself used it very rarely and only in the most aphoristic and allusive formulations, it has been made to bear a theoretical weight far beyond its limited capacities’ …

the real problems began with the establishment of Stalinist orthodoxies which elevated—or reduced—the metaphor to the first principle of Marxist–Leninist dogma, asserting the supremacy of a self contained economic sphere over other passively reflexive subordinate spheres.

This metaphor underwent subsequent transmutation at the hands of the Russian Marxists for worse, which happened to be major ideological sources of the Indian communists. Georgi Plekhanov (1856–1918), often referred to as the father of Russian Marxism, remodelled and rigidified the base–superstructure concept and then schematised it. In one of his early and important book (The Development of the Monist View of History, Chapter V, “Modern Materialism”), Plekhanov stated that

“the very direction of intellectual work in a given society is determined by the production relations” of that society.

In Fundamental Problems of Marxism (1907), he provided a schema to describe the development of the base–superstructure concept, wherein he stated that a superstructure composed of a sociopolitical regime, “the psychology of man in society,” and various ideologies reflecting this psychology is erected upon a particular economic foundation. While neither Lenin nor Leon Trotsky made much use of the base–superstructure concept, Nikolai Bukharin  had devoted a full chapter to it in his book Historical Materialism (1925). In his hands, Marx’s superstructure became more elaborate, hovering over a society’s economic base. Such erroneous interpretations reinforced the notions of Indian communists that castes were to be excluded from classes.

[alxfsl]

Waiting at the clinic

Ink and Faber Castell markers on SMLTart Watercolour Authentic Sketchbook

Sketched on site, colour added afterwards - not the real colour palette though, I had only the Earth Tones with me!

[mathiasdraws]

By special request keep cup coffee on-the-go. @aalvsdotter #sketch #drawing #illustration #inkdrawing #art #notebook #visualnotes #zig #cocoiro #keepcup (at Manly Beach, Sydney Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqbWubKDeAI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cnjic6uwsr5g

[coatescloset]

A page of doodles in my little pocket sketchbook for times when I’m waiting or want to make a quick note :) . . . #faces #characterdesign #lifedrawing #pocketsketchbook #travel #car #visualnotes #weddings https://www.instagram.com/p/BqTrhumBwTY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gkqdazjigq33

[douglaswittnebel]

Here are my hand drawn visual notes from the Pioneers in Design event for IIDA … ENJOY! The wonderful design activism of Liz Ogbu and the distinguished mark of a true construction pioneer, #ScottReay IIDA #pioneersindesign #lizogbu #studioO #Principalbuilders #dougwittnebel #illustration #visualnotes #IIDANC #event (at Acalanes Ridge, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVmJZG0F9He/?utm_medium=tumblr

[rifkisyabani]

"Leave your comfort zone" or "expand your comfort zone" Nggak salah kalau banyak kalangan motivator mendorong kita untuk keluar dari comfort zone, meninggalkan kondisi stagnan, monoton dan flat, karena konon untuk berkembang, kita harus terbuka pada hal-hal baru, mencoba sesuatu yang berbeda, dan berani untuk "unlearn and relearn". Air yang menggenang itu bisa menimbulkan penyakit, sedangkan air yang mengalir itu lebih memberi manfaat. Tetapi jika sudah "nyaman" kenapa harus ditinggalkan? Bukankah kenyamanan adalah situasi yang diharapkan semua orang? Duduk tenang di sudut cafee bersama bestie, menikmati kopsuguren sambil menatapi senja dan self reward agar terjaga "mental life health" adalah dambaan anak Jaksel? 😁 saat kita merasa nyaman, hati jadi senang dan pikiran pun jadi tenang. Jadi, mana yang lebih pas? Leave or expand? 😁🙂 #sketchnote #sketchnotes #sketch #visualnotes #visualthinking #comfortzone (at Jakarta, Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbBcVqhhQJR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thepareidolickid]

सुकलेले धिटुकले... . . . #monochrome #canon200dmarkii #250mm #exploringphotography #bnw #visualnotes #lonerangers #hermits #deviants #composition #contemporary #instaphotography #whoisakshataprabhu https://www.instagram.com/p/CisBj4hjyBp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=