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

Graphic Facilitation and Graphic Recording are two parts of our practice and whilst they can be used independently they can also be used in combination.

Graphic Facilitation A Graphic Facilitator focuses on creating visually interactive ways for people to hold their conversations and thinking. The Graphic Facilitator will work with the meeting or event owner to gather a brief and then design and facilitate the meeting or event.

Graphic Recording A Graphic Recorder focuses on live event visual recording. They will visually capture the flow of ideas, concepts, content and comments from discussions or presentations live whilst they are happening. A Graphic Recording is usually created on giant-scale paper/wall displays creating a dynamic and visual record of the event.

Graphic recording is also known by a whole range of other names including: Live Event Illustration, Graphic Reporting, Live Scribing, Conference Illustration, Event Capture, Visual Minutes, Visual Maps amongst other terms. We genuinely don’t mind the terms you use as this is a live, emerging and changing field of work 🙂

Digital graphic recording is Graphic Recording but created digitally. The live event is captured by hand with a digital drawing tool and the Graphic Record can be projected live on screens at events/meetings as it unfolds. Digital graphic recording can also be used for virtual meetings and 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 ‘1 Page Visual Summaries’. These visual summaries are also derived from various source materials, with their aim to distil key information into engaging and visually appealing formats, serving as a gateway for deeper exploration. To explain what these 1 page visual summaries are, we er… have drawn a visual summary, which you can see here.

The visual summaries are a branch of the bespoke visuals, and a branch that we have seen a rise in their demand, due very likely, to their potential to convey information in a condensed and accessible way in a world where information overload is pressing on all of us.

 

Animations Hand drawn bespoke visuals/storyboards brought to animated life.

Below is a link to a relatively recent animation based on a paper summing up the potential career development route for people involved in Peer Support in mental health.

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

Workshops and Training; Graphic Facilitation and/or Graphic Recording training and Sketchnoting workshops for people and organisations to develop their own use of visual thinking and visual practice tools.

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.

Engage Visually is UK-based and we work globally.