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

Live Illustration service to delight and surprise your guests and attendees!

Graphic recording is the act of live illustration of a spoken discussion, conversation, or speech for gatherings large and small. The purpose of the visuals is to connect ideas, issues, and comments.  Graphic recording helps event attendees solve problems and visualize the entirety of a conversation in a single image or multiple images.

Recording happens on-location while a speaker is speaking or a discussion is taking place. But yes, we support virtual or hybrid events with live-streamed digital sketchnotes!

We use big paper or foam core boards, thick markers, and exceptional listening skills to create these visual records. Consider these large sketchnotes or mindmaps of your meeting, conference, roundtable, community discussion, or strategy meeting.

Graphic Recording in front of an audience

Graphic Recording can occur in the back of the room or front and center in tandem with a speaker.  Location is a client choice and often depends on speaker expectations and ease of moving completed work into shared spaces.

Graphic Recording Attendees Love
Reinforce verbal statements
Add clarity to audience members
Delight and Surprise your Event Attendees

70+% of us are visual learners. That means that visual reinforcement of ideas and concepts is essential to convey messages, solidify meaning, and improve retention of information. Visual Engagement through graphic recording verifies an event attendee's thoughts, experience, and memory of a discussion or session.

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Live Illustration for a Two Day Conference- the Output

Graphic Recording need not be for prescribed conversations but conversations of new concepts and new ideas. The ability to see ideas take shape on a board and understand the breadth of a discussion at large is hugely beneficial for brainstorming, strategy sessions, and other open-ended conversations.

I had no idea what the heck you guys were talking about until he drew it for me.

Graphic Recording on Stage

Photo Credits: Every Angle Cleveland

Graphic Recording with Graphic Recorder

Increase Meeting Energy, Improve the Messaging, and Add a Little Color!

Graphic Recording for Conferences and Seminars

When a Conference Speaker has access to and utilizes graphic recording - everyone benefits. Speakers themselves find an audience that is more in tune with the messaging, the audience message retention improves exponentially, and the conference itself benefits in three ways:

  1. A visual target for social media sharing of the live event
  2. Exceptional imagery to be used for future conference promotion
  3. Sponsor worthy (exhibitor prospectus description ideas)
  4. A memorable point of differentiation among other conferences

Graphic Recording for Company Meetings

Geographically or functionally separated individuals can see a meeting as an exciting avenue for friendship and spreading ideas.   Management can fail to inspire or convey the right message as the purpose of the meeting. Visual Communications via graphic recording can add that flare ( and beats death by PowerPoint EVERY DAY)

Big Paper can draw and color alongside a suite of speakers with no preparation or work with your team beforehand to prepare and outline visuals that reinforce the messaging. A pre-planned graphic recording is just as live and engaging and a bit more organized.

Companies use Big Paper for

  1. Meeting Recording
  2. Strategic Vision Casting
  3. Strategic Planning
  4. Customer Journeys and Flow Maps
  5. Sales Whiteboard Design
  6. Brainstorming

Big Paper Strategy's Matt Orley has experience in engineering, manufacturing, nonprofit fundraising, web marketing, and interior mural printing. He might not be an expert regarding your specific industry, but his broad background makes him flexible. In 2021 alone he 'earned' 160 CEU credits across a dozen industries- just by being the best listener in the room.

Graphic Recording for Roundtables and Community Discussions

Events that seek community input offer a pace of discussion that fits well with graphic recording. Group and public discussions + rountables gather input that floats around topics, flow with a skilled moderator, and bring together many opinions. Graphic recording offers participants a cohesive and centralizing view of the conversation. Clients include community panels, churches, event tour stops and nonprofits.

 

Benefits of Utilizing Graphic Recording at your Event

Event Attendee Engagement

Visual Learning aside,  graphic recording encourages and honors those who contribute to an event's content (a single keynote speaker or a public discussion participant).

Because of increased participation, actions, decision-making, and content comprehension are developed and clear. Graphic recording honors people's contributions - in a permanent marker kind of way!

Creativity

Hiring a Graphic Recorder shows a commitment to creativity, playful attitudes, and a willingness to explore ideas and thoughts in new ways.

Entertainment and a Fuller Experience

While we capture content, Big Paper Strategy is on location to perform. It is powerful to see someone capture ideas as they are occurring in real-time. People enjoy watching an individual live illustrating- they make meetings or conferences more fun.   Enriching and deepening the group experience by going beyond business-as-usual and thinking outside the box, graphic recording provokes more participation and a more profound thought process.

Big Picture

Graphic recording distills ideas to their essence and increases clarity. It organizes ideas by drawing connections and relationships, enabling participants to see links between ideas and understand the bigger picture. All content is visible and can be referred to simultaneously, while slides and talks are fleeting and quickly.

Sharing

Illustrations created live give a fast overview of the event's content for those that could not attend.  - it gives them an insightful overview of what was said. Illustrations act as the basis for further conversations around topics, enabling a cascade of information and knowledge both during and after the recording.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does the process start?

A phone/ zoom conversation or two will help tailor a program to your needs, identify any preliminary project work, and work out logistics.  Preliminary work includes conceptualizing and mapping out drawing components prior to the meeting, research, and reviewing presentations and speech notes as available or pertinent.

You will receive a proposal via email to review. A 50% deposit invoice will be available to secure your meeting date.

Upon your request, we will also send a standard Non-Disclosure Agreement, or, if your legal team prefers- we can review and sign your standard document.