Sketching as a Workplace Creativity Tool

The team at Ninthlink is one of the two external partners we are currently working with here at  Pencils.com to develop and build our next generation Pencils.com site. Today we receive a link to this  interesting post promoting the concept of sketching as a workplace creativity tool at the Ninthlink blog.  We plan to launch in the next couple months and are very excited about this project, but more on that  in a future post. I guess their work with us has inspired a new look at the pencil as a creativity tool.  That’s one of the main themes we are always trying to support here on our site. Ninthlink even gave  us a nice plug for our Palomino pencils too.

This post features another blog post by Leah Buley at The Adaptive Path providing a set of steps on  how to get started using sketching as a workplace tool. One of my favorite steps emphasizes simply  becoming more aware of and embracing the degree to which sketching is a part of our every day lives and environment.

Step 5: Spot the trend Look around and notice that everywhere you go, you see sketching. Everywhere! In the title credits of movies. In ads on buses. In presentations at conferences (maybe even your own). Realize that you might be caught in the upsweep of a sketching fad. Welcome it, and feel appreciative for whatever brought this friend to your door.

So don’t miss out and keep on sketching.

How are you using sketching at work? Share it with our growing pencil community. Post some images of your work sketches and tell your story and contribute to our new Sketching at Work group.

Note: The sketch shown here titled “Gossip” is one shared with us by a loyal Palomino pencil fan, Alia, who I first featured in an early post on my Timberlines blog, here.