On October 23-24th, 2023, we traveled from San Diego to do a Los Angeles graphic recording at Connect23, an event which brings together various non-for-profit organizations supported by The Schmidt Family Foundation. We were brought on by their main grant-making arm, the 11th Hour Project, which partners with communities around…
In July of 2023, at the historic Hotel Del Coronado, Angela and I did a San Diego graphic recording event with NLGI, a non-for-profit trade association composed of companies who manufacture grease. It was a half-day event, with the session we recorded being about 1.5 hours of live content presentation.…
In July of 2022, Angela and I worked a San Diego graphic recording event for StarRez, Inc. StarRez, a software company founded in Melbourne, Australia, held their 2022 Global Connect conference in San Diego, CA. The day began inside a huge event hall with hundreds of active users of the…
For several years-and for several events- I've had the pleasure of working with Anne Easter and the Center For Patient Advocacy Leaders, or CPALS. While Angela and I's main focus is working at local San Diego graphic recording events and surrounding cities, we've also recently began offering digital graphic recording…
Angela and Nick at the Travere Therapeutics booth. On September 12-14th, 2022, we participated in the Global Genes Rare Patient Advocacy Summit held in San Diego, CA. We were brought on by Travere Therapeutics, one of the event sponsors, to create a graphic recording for their booth attendees. The graphic…
San Diego Graphic Recording Event - Computershare.On September 25-27th, 2018, I participated in the 26th annual NASPP (National Association of Stock Plan Professionals) event held in San Diego, CA. I was brought on by Computershare to create a graphic recording for their booth attendees.First of all, the graphic recording was created to…
If you've got a meeting coming up you may be considering using graphic recording to add more engagement. In this post, I'd like to highlight some reasons why investing in a graphic recorder for your meeting is worth it. There are three things that I think graphic recording helps you do.…
Illustration projects are always enjoyable for me to create for clients. And illustration projects that have plenty of room for humor, creativity, and play usually turn out to be the best! This project that I worked on for Johnston Group Inc., wellness posters for workplace inspiration, fit that bill!Johnston Group…
On May 20th, 2018 I worked a San Diego graphic recording event for a PALs United For Lung Health Roundtable. PALs United (Patient Advocacy Leaders) hosted the event. The title of the event was: Collaborating To Raise The Profile of Lung Disease and Advance Better Patient-Centered Solutions. This San Diego graphic…
Animated Music Video - Front Row by Ezekiel Jay The above video is an animated music video I co-created with musician Ezekiel Jay . Ezekiel Jay (Zeke) approached me about making an animated video for his awesome song, Front Row. I immediately said YES. It has been a good while…
On March 8th and 9th, 2018 I worked a San Diego graphic recording event at the 2018 Industry of Things World USA event held at the San Diego Hilton in Mission Bay.The Industry of Things World USA is an event focused on Industrial IoT(Internet of things) and its impact on…
I had the pleasure of doing a San Diego graphic recording event as a sponsor for the Business Growth Bootcamp hosted by Karie Kaufmann of Action Coach this past Friday. As Karie mentioned in the course of the day, being in business should give you more LIFE. The workshop was…
Nick Navatta is a San Diego Graphic Recorder, Illustrator, Storyboard Artist, and Content Creator helping businesses connect to clients in ways that STICK. Are you curious about how to get into graphic recording and start getting paid to do it? I was at a Tedx event in Nashville, TN when I…
The Power of TED by David Emerald - FISBE The Power of TED by David Emerald is one of my favorite books. It has a prominent place on my bookshelf because it is so accessible and its ideas are easily digested. You can come back to the ideas in this book again…
Callibrain. It's the company I've been working for for the last 2.5 years and this video, What is Callibrain?, is the latest (and last) demo video I created for the company. I am leaving Callibrain at the beginning of 2016 and going onto the next venture, whatever that may be!…
The Alliance by Reid Hoffman is a sharp and smart book. This is a book written by the CEO of the biggest business and professional social media platform, LinkedIn. I really liked reading this book. It has a lot of great concepts to take action on, and I imagine it…
Here is the review of Linchpin by Seth Godin that I created for Callibrain, Inc: Linchpin by Seth Godin is a book that is insightful and fun to read. If you like Seth Godin, this is more of the good stuff he has to offer. I love the ideas that…
Above is the animated book review I created for First Break All The Rules By Marcus Buckingham while the Creative Director for Callibrain. First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham is a book that you will want to read if you manage people and you want to get some…
What Got You Here, Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith is a wake-up call to each and every one of us who has pursued success in one form of the other. I love his idea of the 'success delusion' that leaders and succesful people labor under because it is…
People Follow You by Jeb Blount is a great book. Great because it's positive, the concepts are both high-level and actionable, and it is relevant to our world today. The thing I liked most about creating this review was playing with the 5 levers of leadership in a visual way.…
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson and Ken Blanchard is a charming book and fable that packs a punch. Its punch is that change is inevitable, and it happens when progress is being made, and adapting to that change in a positive spirt and with a willing attitude is…
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath is a powerful book on changing your own behavior and the behavior of those you lead. Our review of Switch, in my opinion, is the best book review we've created so far. Why? A couple reasons. One, I think its because the book is…
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell is one of those books that just does a good job of summarizing what it takes to be and practice leadership for a lifetime. It has that 'bible' quality to it, where you can just keep coming back to it again…
This was a really fun review to create. The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a classic in the strategies of war BUT it can be mined for it's leadership insights. In this review, I did my best to link the ideas in the art of war to modern-day…
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic. I would say this is the review that opened the floodgates for how I and we chose to review books at Callibrain and also opened up the vision for the books that we wanted to review. This…
Here is an animated book review for The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. My favorite part of creating this One Minute Manager video was coming up with the characters-particularly Mr. Trenell, Mr. Levy, and Ms. Brown. I like creating videos with a cast of characters because…
Drive by Dan Pink is a powerful book that helps us understand motivation and what drives our behavior and gives us some ideas to optimize our sense of meaning. The thing I liked about creating this book review is the way the book is laid out. It had a good…
The next book review up is Good To Great by Jim Collins. My favorite idea from this book is the concept of the Level 5 leader, which Collins says is a leader who builds enduring greatness through a blend of personal humilty and professional will. This idea provides a good,…
It's been a good 2 years since I've posted here and it hasn't been because there is nothing to post. I've just been in the habit of cranking out videos, one after the other, working for Callibrain, Inc. and helping build a content library of over 30+ leadership and management…
Here are a couple more video book reviews that I made with the team at Wizards of Gyan, Inc. This is one of my favorite books when it comes to presenting ideas. Luckily, I get to present the great ideas inside of Made To Stick by Chip and Dan Heath…
Working with the Wizards of Gyan, Inc., I have gotten to read some great books. And after reading those great books, I have written a short review, or book summary. And to top off that book summary, there is a nice, hand-drawn video that explains the big ideas in the…
For the past year, I have had the privelege to work as the Creative Director for the Wizards of Gyan, Inc. We are right on the verge of launching our first software product, Callibrain (http://www.callibrain.com). We have produced quite a few videos-from a couple infomercials to several book reviews. Just…
Hey there! This is a spec video I did for Back Yard Burgers. It is done in the style of a whiteboard animation, except using colored pencils. It is a 15-sec spot, created as a proposal for a commercial. Thank you to Horton Group , located in Nashville, TN, for the…
I recently had the honor to work with a local video production company called Snapshot Interactive. This is a great local company in Nashville with a great team of people on board. I really enjoyed working with them. They are headed by business partners Mark Scrivner and Ben Rigsby-two great…
Shuttercard is a cool, free service and e-commerce platform that makes it easier for photographers to get paid well for taking photos-so that photographers can actually focus on taking photos and enjoying it! Animation created by https://nicknavatta.com
In case you didn't see it, Google had this great animation (co-animated by Michael Lipman) embedded on its home page this morning. If you didn't see it , here it is: I have read the comments section of youtube, and several other blogs posting about this video, commenting on the…
Hey There! Above is a video interview I submitted to Miguel Hernandez of Grumo Media. Miguel is a very cool guy. He has allowed me to showcase two videos on two occasions on his site, and I am happy to talk great about his company and everything he does. Thumbs…
Here is a Demo video I created for a local company right outside of Nashville, called Attendstar. Attendstar is an online ticketing company and it is FREE to sign up! With that said, here is the script for the video above-Enjoy! "So, your Big Event is coming up next…
"Evergreen- By Gavin Mikhail" Thats the video above. Yep, it got 200,000 views in 24 hours. How, you ask? Well, actually, I had a lot of help getting it seen by that many people. Without Gavin, it wouldn't have happened. Without YouTube, it wouldn't have happened. And well-without my animation,…
http://www.thenewmanpodcast.com/2011/04/david-deida-purpose-mission/ http://www.thenewmanpodcast.com http://www.tripplanier.com Have you been asking yourself, 'Whats my lifes purpose?". And maybe you've driven yourself crazy trying to figure out what to DO, what goal to accomplish, to begin living your purpose? And In the end, you just can't seem to find that perfect answer and and it…
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz-'Domestication of Humans'- Are you a Perfectionist? Are you a perfectionist, never able to fully accept things as they are, wound up and uptight, always judging yourself unfairly, never able to fully relax and let go? In The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz…
The Magic of Thinking Big-Build Confidence and Destroy Fear Do you ever find yourself taking action to build confidence in some area of your life, and even after taking the action, still feel that you don't have the confidence you want? You ACT, but it still feels like somethings missing,…
In the book The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, he talks about an idea called Einstein Time. The idea behind Einstein Time as Hendricks defines it is “YOU are where time comes from-you can make as much of it as you want!”. On the flipside, he says the Newtonian paradigm,…
In the book, Think and Grow Rich, Napolean Hill starts off with, in my opinion, the most important thought of the whole book. He states “Truly, ‘thoughts are things’, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation…