{"id":528,"date":"2009-10-06T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=528"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:02:58","slug":"visual-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/10\/06\/visual-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is another in a long series of Visual Metaphors<\/em> I do for a client who coaches executives. They are all usually a three panel progression showing where the subject was, where he or she is now, and where they want to be. In this one, our executive was lost, starts putting the pieces together, and, in the last panel, he’s successful and reflective.<\/p>\n

I do these in Photoshop and Illustrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another in a long series of Visual Metaphors I do for a client who coaches executives. They are all usually a three panel progression showing where the subject was, where he or she is now, and where they … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[5,39,3660],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","category-visual-metaphors","tag-joe-williams","tag-visual-metaphor","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-8w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":160,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/10\/visual-metaphors-panel-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":528,"position":0},"title":"Visual Metaphors: Panel 1","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first panel of the visual metaphor showing our executive's humble beginnings as conductor of a chamber orchestra. 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