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1:14 pm Fri
Feb 19, 2010
Former Boing Boing guest blogger and Howtoons co-creator Saul Griffith says:
We just finished a huge project in collaboration with Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams - Seeing the Future: A Visual Communication Guide - which is a 20 drawing/inventing guide that teaches kids/adults how to get those big ideas down on paper. Please pass it along; we would love this to get to as many kids (and big kids) as possible.
About the guide | Seeing the Future! the Howtoons Visual Communication guide | PDF version
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