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Sponsor Descriptions Ideas for Live Illustration in your Exhibitor Prospectus

The Sponsorship of Big Paper Strategy live illustration services is a common method of paying for our service. Delight and surprise event attendees while also giving your vendors a new and unique opportunity to engage with them Below are seven unique sponsorship statements that can be listed in your prospectus.  Each one is either pulled …

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Category: BigPaperTag: conference, sponsorship

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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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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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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