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Graphic Recording in Birmingham and beyond

Graphic Recording has many names*. Anyone trying to google someone who does what I do will attest to that! Whatever the term you use to describe it, most people will agree, live Graphic Recording is a really unique and special addition to a meeting. My live drawing illuminates otherwise commonplace meetings and anchors the event in the memories of the attendees, with the document itself being…

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Visual Recording, another way to record your meeting

Hi all, after a lengthy gap in between blogposts I’m back, to talk a little bit about my work in Visual recording.Visual Recording goes by many names (Like Rudy Van De Sarzio from the Mighty Boosh), including Visual Minutes, Graphic Recording, Creative Documentation, Live Scribing, Visual Facilitation AND Visual Scribing. Phew!While the multiplicity of names makes it harder to advertise, it does…

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PORTRAITS FOR FRICTION ARTS AND THEIR 'HOW WERE YOU?' PROJECT

PORTRAITS FOR FRICTION ARTS AND THEIR ‘HOW WERE YOU?’ PROJECT

Portraits can tell an interesting story about how the sitter feels, if you capture your subject at the right time. In this blogpost I’ll be talking about the experience of drawing caricature portraitsfor Friction Arts’ project ‘How Were You’, where we offered a caricature in exchange for a chat about how their last year has been. The responses were varied, sometimes saddening and often…

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Visual Minutes- Adventures in Quick Thinking

Visual Minutes- Adventures in Quick Thinking

Visual Minutes is the art of creatively capturing information at events in a colourful, fun and dynamic way. In today’s blogpost I’m talking about one of my most recent visual minutes gigs and how my drawings made the recording of the event a little bit more exciting! To find out more, read on on my website… What are Visual Minutes?Oftentimes you might assume there is no interesting way of…

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Live Scribing, Visual Minutes and Facilitating visually! (Phew)

Live Scribing, Visual Minutes and Visual Facilitation are just some of the multitudinous terms for what I like to term Visual Minutes.

Live Scribing, Visual Minutes and Visual Facilitation are just some of the multitudinous terms for what I like to term Visual Minutes. As well as working most weekends as a Caricaturist at events like weddings and parties, I attend conferences and work meetings to attempt to zhush up the company’s record of an important meeting. Visual minutes for Wolverhampton Methodist Circuit Regular minutes…