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Graphic Recording is learnable
Doing a live graphic recording isn’t magic – it’s totally learnable. Our courses are about getting you drawing. And giving you lots of ideas, tools and techniques to absorb, practise and then make your own to take out into the real world.
Tell the Small Stories
A graphic recording creates a story that is much more likely to be remembered and talked about. It keeps your everyday workplace stories alive, active and valued way after the meeting is over and the actual conversation is forgotten.
the power of Business Storytelling
We’ve been helping businesses tell their valuable stories for years. Your business stories are a Super Power when it comes to growing a following, building a workplace culture or connecting with customers.
Cartoon Reality
Cartoons are the language of childhood. When a brand surrounds a customer with cartoon imagery, that playfulness resurfaces. The customer becomes a character in a scene designed to entice a response; whether it’s to remember the brand, buy a product or share their experience
What is a graphic recorder?
Sometimes called a live scribe or a business illustrator, the role of a Graphic Recorder is to take other people’s content (usually live, but it could be a recording) and to translate it into a concise visual representation that can be evolved or shared.
What is a graphic facilitator?
A Graphic Facilitator uses simple images and visual templates and props to help facilitation sessions be both more enjoyable and more effective. It’s win-win. People understand more of what you’re saying, can remember it for longer, and are more engaged in your session.
Using a mind map for a book outline
An insight into how I used a physical mind map to put my book structure and outline together.
DIVA FEATURE: Doodle your worries away
An extract from my feature in Diva magazine on how to doodle your worries away.
WOMEN WHO CREATE INTERVIEW
The Women Who Create community is run by the fabulous Amy Phipps who, as well as being thoroughly lovely, is also a crafting queen.
PAYING ATTENTION
Imagine you’re going on a journey, leaving from your front door and heading out to a supermarket, one that you haven’t been to before. Now imagine you’re making the journey in a world that doesn’t rely on visual communication.
TAKING THE BRAVE STEP
Last week it was World Book Day, and this year it coincided with a particularly timely email landing in my inbox
WHY CREATIVES NEED SIDE GIGS
I love having a creative business, but is it enough?
Working creatively in a Traditional Workplace
Working visually engages people, it helps them focus, it promotes creativity in idea-generating and problem-solving, it makes meetings more productive and enjoyable and it makes communications clearer.
RESET TO POSITIVE
Working visually rocks
REASONS TO BE VISUAL #2
there is cool theory called the picture superiority effect, which demonstrates that if we receive content in text form we will remember 10% 3 days later. If you add pictures into the mix your recall increases to a whopping 65%.
REASONS TO BE VISUAL #1
When you communicate with your customers or clients, you really need people to get what you’re saying and, more often than not, get it fast.
COLOUR ME BLUE
Blue Monday is a thing. The purposeful use of colour can and does help to create a common language and a shared understanding. The use of colour can also be used to limit, to exploit and to exclude.
YOUR VISUAL PASSPORT
I had some time recently to ponder the marvellous, international, border crossing nature of working visually.
I can’t draw, so can I work visually?
You may never be an artist but that’s okay, you can still learn to work visually and get the benefits that come with that. In fact how to work visually is teachable and no drawing skills are required.
SKETCHNOTES TO THE RESCUE
You have got to love a sketchnote. These friendly, colourful records of a meeting or discussion are so much more than the sum of their parts. With a sketchnote you get all of the benefits of working visually, namely greater understanding and greater retention, for yourself.
SEEN TO BE HEARD
There’s no better way to help than to get out and experience nature for yourself.
SUPERCHARGE YOUR MEETINGS WITH VISUALS
We’ve all been in those meetings. Meetings where you’re not sure what the point is.
BUSINESS SNAPSHOT TEMPLATE
A visual tool to help you learn lessons from yourselfI get to participate in a lot of interesting meetings and events as part of my job. Being a graphic recorder and a visual facilitator is probably one of the few roles where you get to hear what is going on at senior...
WOMEN ARE AWESOME
It’s International Women’s Day 2017
HOW TO VISUALISE YOUR DREAM
[or…You can with a plan]
VISUAL COMMUNICATOR: MAILCHIMP
Visual communicator: A look at Mailchimp’s use of illustration to connect with their customers