Graphic Facilitation & Graphic Recording. Bringing thoughts together and ideas to life

Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording are two core parts of our practice, these can be used as stand alone approaches and can also be combined in many creative ways.

Graphic Facilitation A Graphic Facilitator creates visually interactive ways for people to explore their thinking and hold meaningful conversations. They work with the meeting or event lead to understand the brief, then design and facilitate the session so that ideas, dialogue, and decisions unfold in a clear and engaging way.

Graphic Recording A Graphic Recorder focuses on live visual capture. They draw the flow of ideas, concepts, content, and comments from discussions or presentations as they happen. Graphic recording is often created on large-scale paper or wall displays, resulting in a vibrant visual record of the event.

Graphic recording — or live illustration — is also known by many other names, including Live Scribing, Graphic Reporting, Conference Illustration, Event Capture, Visual Minutes, and Visual Mapping, among others. We genuinely don’t mind which term you use; this is a live, evolving field and the language continues to grow with it.

Digital graphic recording is the same live visual capture as traditional Graphic Recording, but created digitally. The event is drawn by hand using a digital illustration tool, and the visuals can be projected onto screens in real time as they unfold. Digital graphic recording works beautifully for both in-person and virtual meetings or events.

Bespoke visuals are illustrations tailored precisely to the client’s needs, to help tell a specific story, for and can be about a range of topics, a strategy, a plan, a vision. Being bespoke the approach to build the content can vary dependent on the need and objective.

1 Page Visual Summaries One of the growing uses of bespoke hand-drawn visuals is the creation of 1 Page Visual Summaries. These summaries are developed from a range of source materials and aim to distil key information into an engaging, visually appealing format — offering a clear gateway into deeper exploration.

And to explain what these 1 Page Visual Summaries are, we have… drawn a visual summary (of course). You can see it here.

This type of work sits within our bespoke visuals practice, and we’ve seen a noticeable rise in demand — likely because they present information in a condensed, accessible way at a time when information overload affects all of us.

 

Animations are hand-drawn bespoke visuals or storyboards brought to animated life.
Here is a link to a recent animation based on a paper summarising potential career development routes for people involved in Peer Support in mental health:

https://youtu.be/c2wvE7Z7XXI?si=hkRPGKwbpFBys2PB

Workshops and Training; We offer training in Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, and Sketchnoting for individuals and organisations who want to develop their own visual thinking and visual practice skills. Workshops can be tailored to different groups, contexts, and levels of experience.

Almost every great piece of work has a unique need and that is why where possible we really like to get started with a great conversation.

              

               

                

 

Visit the Engage Visually Flickr Page for many examples of our more of our previous work.