Take a look at these hand-drawn postcards by Carolyn Sewell. Colors, letters, lines and curls, I might just beg to be her peep.
As Graphic Recorders and Facilitators we are called to not just write neatly, but to render mind-seizing, heart-grasping images. Sewell brings both together in her illustrative scriberdoodles.
Check out her sketchnotes to see how she employs this style of text-based graphic capture during lectures, presentation, and private journaling sessions.
See time-lapse of Keith Bendis creating this diagram of IDEO's famed Deep Dive Process described in this classic 1999 NBC Nightline video:
Caricaturing Economists
By JUSTIN WOLFERSI was at the Legg Mason Thought Leader Forum last week, talking about my research over recent years on prediction markets. It was good fun, but the real novelty was that as I was speaking — literally, in real time — there was a cartoonist next to the stage, cartooning my talk on a five-foot-wide poster. I’ve never seen this before, but it was a real hit.
As a speaker, it can be hard to organize your own thoughts even when you know what is coming next. And as an audience member, it can be harder still to sort out the key points a speaker makes from their conversational asides. But the artist — Christopher Fuller who works for Sente Corporation— was just amazing. He not only picked out the important analytic insights, but found an incredibly useful way to represent them, cartooning (or perhaps caricaturing) my message.
I think this is a great idea, and it will serve as a useful reminder to those who heard the talk. And if you weren’t there, hopefully this cartoon gives you some sense of what I had to say.
Now if only I could get my MBA students to do the same thing, they would all have a wonderfully entertaining set of notes to study in advance of their exams. I would love to see a study figuring out whether it helps them retain the material. I bet it would.
Way to go, Christopher!
It's official: Graphic Facilitation exists!
I know this because the Harvard Business Review (aka. Ye Olde HBR) has published an article about us, who uses us, and the main point... our work can help businesses.
Big ones, even!
Companies using the technique include HP, Dell, S.C. Johnson, and Charles Schwab. Kraft Foods has been utilizing graphic recording in its leadership training program since 2005. “For me, the drawings are really a trigger,” says Nicole Polarek, associate director of organizational development. “I can look at the picture and remember the conversation.” Jason Dirks, Kraft’s director of training, says graphic recording keeps people interested and engaged on two levels. “You have this initial ‘wow’ factor while watching this person draw the image,” Dirks says, and afterward people can study the depiction more closely. “The artists are able to capture a lot of depth.”
Thanks Steph Crowley for raising the tide for all our boats. Congrats to Julie Stuart, Bree Sanchez and the "San Francisco architects" (David Sibbet and The Grove) for the honorable mentions.
Heather Willems' notes on Dave Sibbet's presentation of the history of graphic recording. Many participants in the conference were invited on stage as they were acknowledge for their seminal contributions to the 30 year practice of graphic facilitation and making meaning with images.
A Must See! How to squeeze most value out of sharing research. My newest graphic facilitation video!
Brandy Agerbeck of Loosetooth.com presents a visual walkthru of how to squeeze most value out of sharing research.
