Turnstone Consulting LLC – Turnstone helps clients see and say what they mean, with words that illustrate and pictures that explain.

Turnstone improves everyday experiences of public and for-profit products and services, in physical places and digital spaces.

Turnstone helps clients see and say what they mean, with words that illustrate and pictures that explain.

Turnstone crafts clear, visual, strategic stories so organizations communicate effectively with consumers, customers and citizens.

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Live drawing

Graphic facilitation for a range of clients, worldwide

As a graphic facilitator, Turnstone helps academics, civic leaders, executives, engineers, disaster recovery experts, green technologists, heads of state, human rights activists, innovators and medics, in North America, Europe, and…

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Walk NYC

With PentaCityGroup

The New York Department of Transportation invited PentaCityGroup to design a digital basemap of New York City, and implement a citywide wayfinding system for NYC's pedestrians, bike riders, bus riders…

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Open Society Foundations: Future of Work

An Open Society Foundations fellowship

The OSF invited Turnstone to write a paper on technology and the future of work. The result? A film: A 14-minute hand-drawn, deeply researched, animated short on reproductive technology industry…

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UN.org / Oct 06, 2015

UN.org features Turnstone’s live drawings

UN.org features this short film of the illustrations produced during the 2015 UN General Assembly Sustainable Development Summit. An interview with live scribers is also on the UN blog (Sept 28, 2015).

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Okayplayer.com / Apr 21, 2015

Soundpapered x the Robert Glasper Trio

Scott Heins’ Okayplayer profile of Turnstone’s significant side project, Soundpapered. The article includes a short film about Soundpapered live drawing the Robert Glasper Trio, in rehearsal at the Village Vanguard,…

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IXDA: Interaction15 / Feb 10, 2015

Interaction15: In conversation with IDEO’s Tim Brown, Allan Chochinov cites Turnstone

36 minutes in to this fascinating keynote conversation between Core 77’s Allan Chochinov and IDEO CEO Tim Brown, Allan raises the question of designers’ roles in shaping policy, against a…

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AIGA NY / Feb 01, 2015

Visible, Legible, Navigable: The AIGA Design/Relief documentary

AIGA NY’s evocative short film about its 2013-14 Design/Relief initiative, released in February 2015. Design/Relief, a project connecting AIGA designers with the communities of Red Hook, the Rockaways and lower…

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