The Center for Graphic Facilitation

A White Chick who Grew up in Detroit during the Era of Motown Uses GR for Healing in Charm City

From PopTech:

This past fall, Peter Durand’s graphic facilitation expertise was in full effect as he trained PopTech Social Innovation Fellows to more efficiently convey their organizations' missions.  He particularly struck a chord with Community Conferencing Center Founder and 2010 Social Innovation Fellow Lauren Abramson, who could see the potential value of his particular communication style in relation to her work with the Community Conference Center (CCC), a conflict transformation and community justice organization.  So, recently Abramson invited Durand to Baltimore to graphically record her organization’s 20-hour Facilitator Training.  What came out of their meeting was so much more than either could have anticipated. In a conversation between Abramson and Durand with PopTech sticking its nose in occasionally, we got a first-hand account.

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Major Sweet Hand: Typographic Inspiration from Carolyn Sewell

Take a look at these hand-drawn postcards by Carolyn Sewell. Colors, letters, lines and curls, I might just beg to be her peep.

via doodlersanonymous.com

As Graphic Recorders and Facilitators we are called to not just write neatly, but to render mind-seizing, heart-grasping images.

Sewell brings both together in her illustrative scriberdoodles.

Check out her sketchnotes to see how she employs this style of text-based graphic capture during lectures, presentation, and private journaling sessions: http://www.carolynsewell.com/#708078/Sketchnotes

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Sketchnotes, Graphic Recording Rock the Day Stage at SXSW

After 3 conferences, 74 panels and 20 breakfast tacos, Heather Willems and Nora Herting of ImageThink are back from SXSW to the relative quiet of Brooklyn, New York. 

For those of you who weren't able to make it out to Austin, TX you can view all of the panels they captured as part of Ogilvynotes here and a description of their experience at http://www.blog.imagethink.net/.

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Julie Stuart und das Ende der Powerpoint-Parade

From the March Newsletter from Making Ideas Visible:

In December, Julie Stuart was featured in a front page, above-the-fold article in the business section of the FAZ, one of three daily papers in Deutschland. The article continued to the back page and had two big pictures of her work in the old school paper version about how graphic facilitation is changing the way we do meetings. 

This link takes you to the German version. Here's a translation of the best part:

It's more that she sees herself as a kind of translator, who listens for keywords and atmospheres /spirit and tries to bring all the information in an hierarchy. "We structure complexity," says Stuart, who studied politics and art and is a member of the "International Forum of Visual Practitioners."

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Intro to Graphic Recording Workshop: May 21-22, 2011

Introduction to Graphic Recording
with Lynn Carruthers and Emily Shepard

May 21 & 22, Downtown San Francisco, 10am-5pm, $700.00

www.intro2gr.com

• Are you intrigued by graphic recording, looking for a safe place to learn the basics and see what it's like standing in front of that big piece of paper?
• Do you want more confidence in writing clearly and quickly with markers?
• Are you ready to learn a bunch of fun and easy icons, and the basics of simple drawing skills?
• Would you like to improve your listening skills when capturing a speaker or discussion?

Graphic Recording is the real-time documentation of a meeting discussion, strategy session, or speaker. A graphic recorder tracks the conversation, and captures the key points and ideas with words and images on large format paper. This allows the participants in the meeting to literally see what they are hearing, and provides another way to take in the information.

Keeping reading for a description of the workshop...

Incorporating images in the recordings helps people to understand and remember concepts, and can accelerate their learning and working processes.  The recordings also serve as a tool to help a group as they move forward ~ by serving as a dynamic record of their meeting discussions and agreements.

This class is designed for people who work with groups and want to break free of flipcharts, for people who want to learn to think more visually, for people who have never attempted recording before, for people who have been itching to jump up and grab a marker! Great for teachers, consultants, coaches, trainers, and you!

The workshop will cover, among many topics: how to listen for the "nuggets" of information, lettering and titling techniques, key ways to organize information, step by step instructions for drawing people, buildings, light bulbs, and lots more easy icons.

There will be plenty of time to practice recording, learn from one another, and see lots of samples of other people's work. We will also introduce you to the many resources that are out there  ~ to inspire you, and help you continue your learning.

Included in your $700.00 registration fee: Lunch, drinks and snacks both days and all the paper/supplies you'll need

Reserve your spot today. Space is limited!

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Earthquakes Visualized

To interpret/appreciate the magnitude of the earthquake in Japan better, the Hive Group posted an interactive visualization of the most powerful and deadliest earthquakes in recent history to provide a context:

http://www.hivegroup.com/gallery/earthquakes/

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ImageThink: See Ya’ll at SXSW

 

Across 3 states and 2 countries, Ryan, Liisa, Sunni, Andrew, Heather and Nora are packing up their markers and heading for SXSW Interactive.

Watch us create live visuals of keynotes and the most popular sessions March 12-14.

Want to take note? Come by the Day Stage to get your own limited edition prints of all our illustrations and check out the gallery of graphic facilitation.

Can’t make it out west? See our work, along with visual notes from other attendees at our sponsor’s site. Or stay tuned by checking out our blog.

Follow more visual learners and famed sketchnoters at: http://ogilvynotes.com/

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Stine Arensbach Asks Why does Graphic Facilitation work?

from Stine Arensbach in in EU:

Graphic facilitation is a business in growth. I think everybody in the field agrees with me on that. There seems to be an abundance of work where each job feeds into the next. And I wonder… why is that? Why does it work? Why are people so enthusiastic about the process and results? full article>>

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How to Write Like an Architect

In this video from the series How to Architect, Doug Patt demonstrates how to architect with the basic drafting tools for an architect when working by hand: a parallel rule, a t-square, and an Ames lettering guide to create the lines for the lettering. 

Although this is a controlled tabletop activity, the principles apply to graphic recording. Doug's advice: "I'd say the most important thing to remember about hand lettering is that your letters need to seem animated while still appearing orderly and neat. I think this is achieved by using a few conventions."

(via Dave's Faves)

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The Doodlers Anonymous Doodle Wall Contest

(via doodlersanonymous.com)

Doodle Our Wall

This is the showcase we've been waiting for — the one that not only allows, but encourages you to defy mom. Scribble up a wall, our studio wall. The winner will have their artwork turned into a limited-edition Blik surface graphic. Go ahead, we double dare you. 

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