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Jono Hey

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Born

Southampton, The United Kingdom

Website

https://sketchplanations.com

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Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help

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June 2007

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Jono Hey is the author of Big Ideas Little Pictures and the creator of Sketchplanations, one of the world's largest libraries of hand-drawn sketches explaining the world. For more than a decade, he has published a new sketch every week, building a collection of nearly 1,000 sketches that explain complex ideas simply.

His sketches have been shared millions of times and are used in books, articles, classrooms and presentations around the world. His illustrations also appear in Bill Gates's 2022 book How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.

Before becoming a full-time author and illustrator, Jono helped build two successful startups from their founding teams, leading UX and Design at Nutmeg and serving as Chief Product Officer at Zen Educate. He holds ...more

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Big Ideas, Little Pictures: Explaining the World One Sketch at a Time

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The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

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“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
― Anne Frank

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