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Matt Orley

How Live Illustration Can Simplify Complex Ideas and Bring your Event Attendees from Confusion to Clarity

Live Illustration is a visual facilitation method that involves creating a visual representation of a conversation or presentation in real time.  One thing that I find is that it’s hard to explain to folks.  So I’ve done my best to craft together comments that I often hear from event attendees about how they benefit from …

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Category: BigPaper

Live Illustration on a Tradeshow Floor

I fervently believe that Live Illustration is one of the best ways to engage with tradeshow and expo attendees.    It’s incredibly human, visceral, imperfect, and memorable. The idea can manifest in two different ways on large paper panels:  A hand-drawn illustration of your messaging during the show and make attendees wonder “What’s worth writing down” …

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Category: BigPaperTag: tradeshow

Live Illustration Delivers Engagement at Scale

( drawing a giant Green Check Mark Next to ROI )

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Category: BigPaperTag: conference, ROI

User Conferences: Tips and Ideas to Maximize Feedback

A user conference gathers management staff, developers, customer service, support, and sales teams for a company together with their clients.   Such events have the potential to build strong, personal connections between a software company and its customers. These relationships mean conversations in both directions- uncovering a feature roadmap through helpful feedback and reciprocal, continued sales. …

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Category: BigPaper, Education, user conference

Meeting the Needs of Virtual Event Attendees

27 Tips and Tricks!

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Category: BigPaper, Virtual

Live Illustrated Keynotes in 2020 and 2021

The keynote address is a leading way to get event attendees (live or virtual) into their seats for a day full of conference or event activities!  Several clients this year requested that I illustrate for a keynote address.  The modalities are broad of course in a pandemic year- live in person on paper, live in …

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Category: BigPaper

Live Sketching A Site Visitor Journey To Create A Sitemap With Your Client

Written by our own Matt Orley, this post originally appeared in smashingmagazine.com in December, 2019. Quick Summary: The sitemap meeting can be a minefield of multiple stakeholders, multi-dimensional categories, historical analytics, new products and mobile-first demands. Using a live illustration of a customer site journey, you can create a meaningful sitemap with which site visitors …

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Category: Drawing

Interior Photo with a framed Graphic Recording

Adventures in Live Illustration

Stories and Setups of past graphic recording projects.

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Category: BigPaper

Drawing Substantially Activates the Brain to Learn and Understand

A Decade of Research, Practitioners and Examples in Drawing’s Dominance

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Category: Drawing, Education

15 Ways to Use a Graphic Recorder at your Conference or Trade Show

Conference Organizers traditionally hire Graphic Recorders and Facilitators to graphically record (read -live illustration) keynote addresses, special speakers, and plenary announcements – often outlining the high points of each individual discussion. But surely there is much more that a graphic recorder can bring to a conference  – how can the act of simply putting marker …

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Category: BigPaperTag: conference, ideas

Graphic Recording- Church Leadership

Fiery Speakers and Introspective Group Discussions- Drawn Live

March was a busy month in graphic recording.  I drew for a a Bringing America Back to Life conference and a national gathering of leaders for a specific denomination.  The projects were a mix of recording discussions among those gathered, and fast recording of fiery speakers in keynote addresses. Checkout some images below. One of …

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Ten Components of a Successful Sales Meeting

The organizer of a successful sales meeting has the tremendous task of creating a cohesive flow, staying on task for corporate requirements, providing a comfortable atmosphere all the while showing employees that they are valued. Contrast your goals against the current needs of your workforce ( and sales environment)- whether those be the need to …

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How to Use Graphic Recorders for a Conference with Workshops

Graphic recorders (also called a graphic facilitator, visual scribe, or live illustrator) can add visual excitement to a conference.   An illustrator’s roll can add a holistic view to a keynote speech, to a set of workshops, and to your event as a whole. A  single graphic recorder can often not handle an entire conference for …

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Enabling Vision Casting through a Holistic Graphic Recording

A Vision Casting event is truly a group effort.  Management and Executives share the vision, while those in attendance seeing the vision can choose to accept, embrace and carry that vision forward, or honestly, see it as a myriad of new marching orders.  When Big Paper Strategy is involved, the acceptance rate goes way up …

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Facilitating a Brainstorming Session

I facilitated a brainstorming session yesterday evening for a small group of dedicated and passionate people. Ramping up it’s already successful ESL (English as a Second Language) program, the team at CrossPoint Alliance Church is seeking to meet the needs of the expanding international community within their local area.  Seeing a need for more resources …

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Category: BigPaper, Brainstorming

Recording a Board Meeting with Illustrations

In August I was invited by Julia Zettl of MJM Services, an Association Management Company to record a board meeting for the Cleveland Chapter of the Association of Corporate Growth. I was glad to attend! This board meeting was the first of a new chapter board president Dale Vernon, and one focused on innovation.  I …

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Building a Kid Entrepreneur

Growing up my maternal grandfather ran his own series of businesses.  His two sons, and my father ran their own businesses, and I am cut from the same cloth. Making your own way in the world is exciting, a little bit scary, and continuously stretches you. Children, obviously, can catch this attitude- whether it is …

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Category: BigPaperTag: entrepreneurial

A Brainstorming Session to Cure Type 1 Diabetes

For anyone that has struggled through a laborious sequence of prescribed medical tests, or has been offered a ‘tried and true’ treatment with 60% success rate, the science of medicine can feel like a system, and just an imperfect science. But lest we forget that medicine… is an art!  Innovation through creative thought must be …

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Category: BigPaperTag: medical

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  • How Live Illustration Can Simplify Complex Ideas and Bring your Event Attendees from Confusion to Clarity
  • Live Illustration on a Tradeshow Floor
  • Live Illustration Delivers Engagement at Scale
  • User Conferences: Tips and Ideas to Maximize Feedback
  • Meeting the Needs of Virtual Event Attendees
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