Insights on conference engagement, strategic planning layouts, graphic recording ROI, and the power of hand-drawn visual synthesis.
Boost event ROI and attendee engagement with Live Illustration. Transform conferences content into visual narratives that prove event value.
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Illustrators, Poets, Calligraphers and Actors- Find out our top 11 artist types that you can hire for your tradeshow or conference.
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Client Conference content idea list: realize training, roundtables, and more—and discover how live illustration honors and inspires.
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Hiring an illustrator to work in your trade show booth is one of the best investments you can make towards incredible attendee engagement.
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Meetings are a cacophony of spoken ideas, fleeting insights, and lengthy discussions. Meeting Illustration translates dynamic information into a form that’s not only engaging but also incredibly informative. Meeting Illustration is a vivid approach to business meetings that turns ordinary discussions into masterpieces of clarity and vision. Matt Orley is one such illustrator. What is …
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Experienced event illustrator with the acumen to manage multiple illustrator at a conference, meeting, or other event.
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Strategic Designer Matt Orley delivers crucial meeting cohesion through Live Illustration at meetings and events.
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Matt Orley is a professional doodler for conference sessions & meetings. Combining images with condensed text transforms event messaging.
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A Conference Sketch Artist will illustrate the spoken content of your event. Generate FOMO, happy attendees, and improved understanding.
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Matt Orley is a graphic recorder based in Ohio. This post outlines several of the Ohio events he has live-illustrated.
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I've had the privilege to listen to hundreds of speakers over the last several years. Listening is my job, so I can spot an amazing speaker from several decibels away. Some shine! Below is a short list of those shining speakers for keynote addresses, plenary sessions, and small workshops. My criteria for inclusion in this …
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Go Beyond Keynotes and Utilize Graphic Recording to connect attendees, exhibitors and sponsors through new shareable visual methodologies!
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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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Going from Exuberant Comment to clear ROI of Live Illustration at your event is easy once you see all of the attendee touch points.
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User Conferences are an opportunity to win user feedback for your software products. These game changing ideas will rock your schedule!
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Choose your next Ohio meeting location with this list of unique venues. Choose between museums, art studios, coworking hotspots + hotels!
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Improve your virtual attendee experience with these rock solid tips to improve their engagement, momentum, and sense of belonging.
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Keynote Addresses Live Illustrated as Graphic Recordings and Digital Sketchnotes. These examples showcase Big Paper Strategy LLC.
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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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Stories and Setups of past graphic recording projects.
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Drawing is the best method to learn a set of facts or complex topics. Research + practical experts alike have identified drawing as the top multi-modal action.
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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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These 10 ideas and directives will help you create a compelling and memorable sales meeting. Align your Schedule, Goals, Love and Messaging for success!
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Using multiple graphic recorders for a conference can have amazing benefits. Variations of backgrounds, along with more hands to draw can deliver on creativity.
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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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Running a brainstorming event as a graphic facilitator means three roles - guiding the conversation, instilling creativity, and illutrating the discussion.
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This organization's Board Meeting's notes were visually captured with a live graphic recorder in attendance. This visual provided a level of engagement, and response.
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Here are four areas in which parents can influence their child entrepreneurs. Encouragement, Education, Investment, and Reward. Many ideas in each category
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Showcasing brainstorming techniques to create concepts for medical breakthroughs. This particular session for T1D was graphically recorded and shared here.
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