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Live Event Illustration Brings That Extra Magic

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You can use live event illustration to turn information into joyful visuals which:

  • Inspire discussion;

  • Help key ideas stick;

  • Engage audiences;

  • Can be used time and time again.

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Live illustration is also known as:

  • Live scribing

  • Graphic recording

  • Graphic facilitation

  • Sketch notes

  • Visual notes

  • Visual scribing

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All of these can be created digitally or with traditional materials:

  • Group ideas generation

  • Live meetings

  • Step-by-step guides

  • Educational resources

  • Revision guides

Is Live Event Illustration For You?

Are you delivering online webinars or tutorials? Running a workshop? Holding team meetings to come up with new ideas? Delivering a conference, training or CPD session? Looking for new ways to inject some joy and engagement into your meetings? Perhaps you’re about to deliver a one off session that you’ve put your heart and soul into preparing and you want that extra bit of magic?

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Or are you interested in creating more engaging resources or newsletters? Are you delivering the same training again and again, such as induction days? Maybe you are in need of simple visual reminders or prompts for neurodivergent clients? Perhaps your pupils are struggling to grasp a specific concept for their upcoming exams?

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Visual notes and infographics have a well earned reputation for being a very effective way to communicate, summarise or walk you through something step-by-step. Hand drawn one-of-a-kind visuals give information personality and are sharable, joyful and versatile. They are a fantastic way to scaffold understanding of a concept, new skill or technique and they offer several cognitive benefits and improve memory retention. They are also much more likely to be reused than pages of mind-numbing text!

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