Live Illustration and Graphic Recording for In-Person and Virtual Events

In-Person Event Illustration

It's large-scale note-taking, a point of engagement, and made to delight and surprise! Bring a visual edge to your keynotes, sessions, & meetings.

Live Illustration

Strategic Planning Illustration

Live Illustration of Strategic Planning Meetings delivers a cohesive and well-understood reference and overview.

Strategic Planning Illustration

Virtual Event Illustration

Bring real-time illustration to your online events & grant your attendees a whole new way to absorb your content.

Virtual Illustrations

The Big Paper Strategy is this:

Listen to and refine event conversation,
illustrate a clear and holistic view of an event
- and make it memorable.
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Big Paper Strategy's  live illustration service brings color, holistic understanding, and visual energy to an event.

Conferences, corporate meetings, and community roundtables all benefit from the visual addition to any discussion.

A visual thinker with a background in business, technology, and design, Matt's big paper drawings provide a backdrop for the facilitation of lively group conversation, strategy, clarity, and vision casting.

Photo on left courtesy of Edwin Demafiles.

Serving Fabulous Clients

List of Clients that have used live illustration servicers from Big Paper Strategy - Organization Logos

Big Paper Strategy LLC IconBig Paper Strategy LLC

175 Kendall Park Road, Peninsula

5.0 7 reviews

  • Avatar Rachel Connor ★★★★★ a month ago
    Being in the business of educating people, you are always looking for ways to bring the information, the lecture, the presentation to life for the learner. Matt with Big Paper Strategy does just that! His work appeals to the visual learner, the distracted learner, the dedicated learner...all of which want to be able to look back and remember what was taught. Highly recommend Matt!
  • Avatar Kim Weis Laugherty ★★★★★ 4 months ago
    I cannot say enough about the level of enthusiasm and creativity Matt brought to our Annual Conference! With this being our first in-person Annual Conference in 3 years, we were looking to add major BUZZ and WOW factors for members to enjoy, and Matt delivered! Our attendees were fascinated by his process, giving him and the resulting illustrations major kudos. They could also envision the applicability … More of his work to strategic planning, process mapping, and other endeavors in their school districts.
    By illustrating the education session disussions, the key points, and major takeaways, Matt adds a critical layer to the learning process and knowledge retention.
    We can't wait to have him back!
  • Avatar Nancy Bruce ★★★★★ 6 months ago
    Matt, you are so talented and we feel so honored to have your masterpiece be part of our People Experience, Global Talent Solutions narrative! We have been overwhelmed with compliments from the department! This was such a creative way to bring our global, virtual meeting to life and balance our priority to keep things simple. Can't wait to work together again! 😎
  • Avatar Priscilla Gandy ★★★★★ 8 months ago
    Matt with Big Paper Strategy has been an incredible extension of our team in ensuring our events are creative, fun, and engaging! Whether virtual or in-person, Matt's graphic illustrations have allowed us to level-up attendee engagement - so much to the point that we've sent his graphic illustrations to attendees as event mementos! I highly recommend Matt with Big Paper Strategy!
  • Avatar Alyssa Molinari ★★★★★ 10 months ago
    We thought we were hiring Big Paper Strategy's Matt Orley to record the RESULTS of our Board of Director's Strategic Planning session, but instead he captured the entire process in real-time and provided an outstanding visual that clarified our conversation and direction throughout! Our leadership couldn't have been more pleased. Matt is extremely easy to work with and truly brings … More life to our events. We just signed another contract with Matt to illustrate our upcoming Conference and we can't wait to see what he brings to the table!

Ways We Work

Live Streamed Illustrations for Virtual Events

Add an uscripted visual element to your virtual events! Live, Virtual sketchnotes from Big Paper Strategy engage attendees both during and after the event and keep your group engaged.

In-Person Event Illustration

Graphic recording is the act of creating large, live illustrations that follow the verbal components of a meeting, talk, or conference through summaries in both written word and graphics on large surfaces to convey a holistic view of a conversation or session.

Workshops

Big Paper Strategy offers a series of workshops suited for corporate settings that improve visual thinking during the workday. Workshops also offer additional skills such as whiteboard selling, creativity development, fiercest competitor development, and technology overview drawing.

Public Projects Shared on Instagram

Big Paper Benefits

Meeting Attendees Share Images of Graphic Recordings via Social Media
Speeches, Keynotes and Discussions Are Clarified and Enhanced
Participants Enjoy a New and Exciting Visual Treat
Discussions and Meeting Benefit from a Holistic Visual Viewpoint
Speakers Feel Empowered, Pampered, and Appreciated
Powerful Post Meeting Images for Follow Up and Future Event Promotion

Happy Clients

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Holy wow I love this Matt Orley!

Ann Handley MarketingProfs, Keynote Speaker

You provided great value to IPEC 2022. The proof of that is the apparent new business you may have picked up as a result of your work on-site! There’s no better testimonial to your value than having our attendees booking you for their future events!

Moreover, I know we all agree that your style – low-maintenance, self-reliant, easy-going, always professional – is doubly appreciated. You meshed really well with our team and our value proposition, which is very important to us!

Thanks again and we look forward to future opportunities to work together.

David Blansfield Northstar Meetings Group, Executive Vice President

Jaw-dropping reactions.  Well done!!!

Jennifer Martin, MBA, CAE New York School Nutrition

...Matt was professional and very easy to work with both pre-planning and during the conference. The Graphic recordings of two of our plenary presentations were a huge hit for both our attendees and presenters. Attendees enjoyed the visual addition to the presentation and we had many people lined up to review the drawings in completion after the presentations.

Britt Peck, CEM Shared Hope International
The exercises were great! I also liked the building block approach. We didn't start at ground zero, which let us dive right in. As we went along, Matt gave us additional skills, tools and techniques to give us a real sense for how much we were learning. {workshop}
Michelle Nash Director of Learning and Development

Thank you for the graphics!  These are WONDERFUL!  I’ve had such positive feedback from the participants about this very special feature of yesterday’s meeting.  I can hardly wait to show them to everyone at our Town Hall tomorrow morning!

 

Paula Kinney Director of Strategic Planning and Effectivenesss

You did an amazing job! Can’t sing your praises enough! Look forward to working with you in September at Annual!

Priscilla Gandy Conferences and Events DIrector

This layering and cohesion was not at all visible in the linear presentation but presented as a whole, was exceptional- and, honestly a great way for those that would be in attendance to accept the vision.

Allan Marshall Director, Polymer Resource Center

Your leadership, direction and guidance last night thru the brainstorming was so much more than I ever thought or imagined!

Bruce Lyman ESL Director
This is UNREAL, Matt!!! I wanted to reach out on behalf of the team to say THANK YOU! Your illustrations are absolutely incredible and brought all of our sessions to life. We can’t wait to use them on social and send to all of our presenters.
Noa Horberg aprimo Software

So some exciting news for you… our Executive Leadership Team, specifically our CEO, was so impressed by this art piece that he wants posters made to put in ELT offices and other M Health Fairview venues to remind us of our ongoing work and connection to the community. How awesome!!

Emily Carpenter Community Partnerships Manager @ M Health Fairview

Thank you again! I have already shared with my team! I love your style. You are so talented!

Mindi Sue Sternblitz-Rubenstein Senior Marketing Director

You brought a layer of richness and excitement to the conference that was pretty magical!! And thank you for sending the digital files ... they are gorgeous!!

Nancy Hawthorne Senior Manager, Conference Projects

These graphic recordings gave a fun and surprisingly on-point review of the meeting.

Wendy Underhill Director of Elections and Redistricting

This session was outstanding!  The way it focused more on Matt's drawings than Power Point was very effective!

Linda Smith President and Founder