iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 25/01/2026

Can you help Walkhighlands? Walkhighlands website & app are free for everyone and anyone to use. We don't charge as we want to provide a service accessible to all, including those who cannot afford to pay. We are now a not-for-profit set up to serve walkers. www.walkhighlands.co.uk/donate.shtml

Signpost on rough hill ground with view of rolling fields

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Vox Scotland @voxscotland.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

What an inspiring day! Alongside SIAA, we held an event in Edinburgh advocating for collective advocacy. Attendees, many with lived experience, connected with each other & shared their asks of the government, directly with the Minister for Social Care, @ThomasCArthur.bsky.social

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Happy new year!🌱🌝🍀 I am looking forward to another year of listening, learning, distilling and drawing. Get in touch if you'd like to know more about how you could use #graphicrecording or #visualminutes to involve more voices in research, and share complex information in an accessible way.

A photo (thanks Lauren Bloor for this image) showing a hand - my hand! - holding a pen, finishing the lettering 'Bridging the communication gap.'

This image was taken at the Design Hopes symposium in Glasgow April 2025, where I visual minuted the event alongside my long-term collaborator and good friend the artist Claire Stringer.

It was about collaborative work between designers, researchers and medics to develop sustainable, earth friendly medical products, and was utterly fascinating. www.designhopes.org

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"We are starting from a place of entanglement" I recently revisted these conversations illustrated at the Sefari Gateway ideas hub in Edinburgh Botanic Gardens in 2023. A session full of gems of wisdom about collaborating towards shared environmental aims in the context of a complex social system.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Bill Knott

POEM

A kite in the shape
of a map floats
over the land it depicts,

but at night no one sees
its roads at the end
of which a child feels

his hand tugged upward,
disappearing
in salutations.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It was a huge privilege to create 8 visual notes capturing insights from The Presiding Officers @parliament.scot 25th anniversary regional visits to hear from communities across Scotland last year. They will be up in the public area of the parliament over the summer, do go in and see them!

Visual notes from the Cumberland & Carbrain visit

Looking at the visual notes with the PO, image credit Andrew Cowan / Scottish Parliament, Communities Conference 2025.

Conference delegates looking at the visual notes at the Scottish Parliament, Communities Conference 2025.

Visual notes from the Lothian Regional visit

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The Binks Hub @thebinkshub.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Last week we were delighted to collaborate with the Ripple on an exhibition at @scotparl.bsky.social titled ‘The Ripple Project: Manifesting the Future of Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny’ ✨

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Jenny Haines @jennyhainesart.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

UK Illustrators, pls share: The AOI (Association of Illustrators) is conducting a survey on AI and copyright to hopefully fight back against the ridiculous decision by the UK govt to plow ahead regardless. You don't have to be an AOI member to have your say! www.surveymonkey.com/r/ai_consult...

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AI and Copyright Consultation Survey for Illustrators

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A red moon over Portobello beach last night, and a pink sky this morning. Skies to lift tired eyes. #lookup

A red moon over the sea in Portobello, Edinburgh yesterday evening.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy #WinterSolstice! The days in the north will get longer from here on in 🥳

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Orwell wrote: So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information....

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Hester Parr @hesterparr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The ‘climate change and mental ill health’ event held in @uofglasgow.bsky.social last week has a fascinating graphic summary by @jennycapondraws.bsky.social. 40 invited delegates made this a brilliant start to abmuch needed national conversation! @drcenz.bsky.social

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 11/12/2024

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

This title if the comic is ‘Googling Stuff…’
The comic shows two columns: on the left is “Then” showing search results with one thing listed as “the thing you want”

On the right column is ‘Now’ - also showing search results but in this case it’s a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need:

AI TAKING A WILD STAB AT IT WITH SOME
BLATANT MISINFORMATION

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

SPONSORED RESULT

PEOPLE ALSO ASK

VIEW PRODUCTS

And then right at the bottom just off screen is ‘the thing you want’

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Luke Burton @biblioluke.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

'When designed, managed and staffed with intention (libraries) are spaces where people can come together, bridge differences of race, income and belief, and engage with each other and the community. Great piece by @shamike2009.bsky.social

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Can libraries help solve our connection crisis?

A conversation with author and library expert Shamichael Hallman

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Psychoticstate @psychoticstate.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Ice fairy 🏔️❄️🧊✨ #macro #nature #photography

A very small blade of grass covered in frost on a dark shadowy hazy background

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Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Scribbling and editing today thinking of all the films about writers I've watched and how none of them eat chips

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've been working on a piece from Scotland's community justice organisation Sacro's 2nd conference. This is from their first in 2022, when poet / DJ Byron Vincent talked powerfully about the impact of growing up as a neurodivergent kid in poverty. Stories matter. Link to his podcasts in alt text.

Image showing drawings from a talk by spoken word artist / writer Byron Vincent, exploring the impact of unseen neurodiversity in poverty. You can find some of his podcasts on social justice here: https://www.byronvincent.com/new-page he was a brilliant wordsmith.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors’.

How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors

It’s not rocket surgery.
First, get all your ducks on the same page.
After all, you can’t make an omelette
without breaking stride.

Be sure to watch what you write
with a fine-tuned comb.
Check and re-check until the cows turn blue.
It’s as easy as falling off a piece of cake.

Don’t worry about opening up
a whole hill of beans:
you can always burn that bridge when you come to it,
if you follow where I’m coming from.

Concentrate! Keep your door closed
and your enemies closer.
Finally, don’t take the moral high horse:
if the metaphor fits, walk a mile in it.

Brian Bilston

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I read this weeks ago and can't get it out of my head. A must-read (& share) for anyone serious about systems change. "Complexity approaches generally begin with the assumption that it is not possible to direct a living system along a linear pathway no matter how desirable the potential outcomes."

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Is Systems Thinking the same as Complexity Thinking?

Path Notes #4

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You distract them, I'll get the chips.

Drawing of a pigeon and a starling, overlaying vintage OS maps of Portobello beach, Edinburgh.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We need to join up the dots. I'd like to use my skills. I'd like to do more here. We all want to do our bit to save the planet. The thoughts from participants in the Gallant project - a community based collaborative environmental science project in Glasgow. Link to research in alt text.

Visual minutes - words and pictures - capturing the ideas from community participants in a science & environmental project run by Glasgow University & Glasgow Science Centre. Link to research here:

https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/research/fromlocaltoglobalresearch/researchprojects/gallant/

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 23/11/2024

As Edinburgh shivers under a blanket of sleet and snow, and entirely fails to cope with this well forecasted, seasonal weather event, here's a chilly view of "Holyrood in the Snow" by William Wilson from 1935 from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland.

William Wilson, 1935, "Holyrood in Snow", a pen line on paper artwork showing show on Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags in the distance, with Holyrood Abbey and the Palace in the midground and old tenements in the foreground. The scene is snowy and looks cold and dark. © Estate of William Wilson OBE (1905-1972)

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

So many oystercatchers on the beach at Portobello this morning. One of my favourite birds, I love their calls. I definitely feel like we see more of them here at the moment.

Watercolour drawing of an oystercatcher combined with a vintage map of Portobello, Edinburgh.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What would a mentally healthy society look like for young people? At an event in 2022 exploring this, the Triumph network asked young people, and this is what they said. Young people are wise. Research here: triumph.sphsu.gla.ac.uk/research/ #graphicrecording

Images and text exploring what a healthy society for young people would look like, in their own words.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I also draw birds, with old ordnance survey maps embedded in them. These are somewhat on the back burner at the moment as I am mostly graphic recording. But I take commissions for special birds + special places when I can, so get in touch if you'd like to discuss one.

Print of hand drawn & watercolour gannets combined with vintage ordnance survey map of North Berwick.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

As a graphic recorder I listen & draw at events, distilling a visual overview of conversations. It's a real privilege to listen in at the events I join. This, about Ocean Connectivity, was created with artist Claire Stringer for The National Oceanography Centre in 2022. Water connects us all🌊🌍

Image drawn live at an event by the National Oceanography Centre. An overview of their conversations about how elements and actions interact and have consequences in the marine environment.

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Jenny Capon @jennycapondraws.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It's a beautiful frost on the beach frozen fingers kind of morning. #portobello #isverycold #butlovely

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