How to Think Like a New Yorker Cartoonist—and Why

You count on the cartoons.
You can count on the cartoonists.

Why do presenters rely on New Yorker cartoons? Because they deliver. Nothing else inspires genuine insights with such snap. How can you learn to spark ideas like that for yourself? By choosing your muse. Learn creative discipline directly from the cartoonists of The New Yorker. Welcome to The Drawing Board, the New Yorker cartoonists’ own creative consultancy.

What We Do →

Our Mission

“An idea is a thought that changes the way you see. Creativity is a way of thinking that changes the way you see—all the time.”

Win minds and hearts with ideas that communicate instantly. Ideas like that bring growth. And positive change. Having them is a skill. Skills can be taught.

Choose your teachers well.

The Drawing Board’s instructors don’t simply know about creativity, they know it. From the inside out. They are elite practitioners of the world’s most distilled art form. They’ll show you how their process, their skills—their discipline—can harness creativity you didn’t even know you had and kickstart your professional growth.

How We Do It →

The Cartoonist's Way

Everyone loves it when they get a cartoon. Especially when they feel like they suddenly get more than just the cartoon.

Why We Do It →

Cracking the Creativity Code with

Intensive Creativity Workshops

Learn the exquisite calculus of combining visual and verbal thinking for exponential growth in creativity, plus the ability to capture it on paper. Because what good is an idea if you can’t communicate it?

It’s not a formula, but a discipline. A discipline that can be understood. And learned. New Yorker cartoonists have developed an unrivaled practical understanding of it over the past 90-plus years—a mastery. The latest in neuroscience can validate why it works, but to understand how it works—and make it work for you—that’s where you need to turn to the masters of the world’s most intensive creative discipline.

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Who To Contact

Get back to The Drawing Board by emailing Amy at:

amy@cartoonists.com

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The Cartoonists

Learn more about our other creative services, too, including original content, brainstorming, keynotes, premier graphic recording, live cartooning for events, and anything else you can imagine.