Are you curious about the field or building your skills? Here are a few resources:
Creating notes that incorporate drawing, different scales of lettering, or and other visual cues help you remember and make sense of conversations, presentations or information. Here’s a couple TED talks explaining the value:
Sketchnoting
Sketchnoting for teachers and students
Graphic Recording
Large scale documentation done live to capture discussions, presentations, meetings, panel discussions using words and pictures. Graphic recorders listen, synthesize, and make visual what they hear. As a graphic recorder, I often work alongside a facilitator who is running the meetings. I’m there to capture what happens.
Books:
Online Courses:
Lettering: Let’s Letter Together
The Grove (and they provide Visual Facilitation Services, tools and templates)
History
Visual Facilitation:
Visual facilitators help you design the whole process of change - working closely with clients to plan meetings that incorporate visual templates or live drawing along with capturing the important content to help groups of people meet a goal, reach consensus, or successfully navigate change. I don’t provide visual facilitation services but I can refer you to people I work with who can.
And, the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) holds an annual conference and shares resources regularly.
International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) - you can find a map of practitioners around the world here.
Check out more resources at IFVP’s Visual practices database of resources