27 Tips and Tricks!
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 …
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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Adventures in Live Illustration
Stories and Setups of past graphic recording projects.
Drawing Substantially Activates the Brain to Learn and Understand
A Decade of Research, Practitioners and Examples in Drawing’s Dominance
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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
