Visual Notes
(aka “Communicating through visuals”)
We use our illustration, design and creative problem-solving skills to help companies communicate through visuals. Often that involves translating conversations in real-time for conferences, meetings and workshops on a large scale (Graphic recording) or small scale (Sketchnoting).
We listen, observe, process and capture your meeting in real time.
Sitting in on your online conference we create visual notes in a digital format that you will be able to share soon after the event has finished. If we are scribing live at your event, we can bring paper and pens to work old-school analogue style. We can use a whiteboard and Kaptivo whiteboard camera for instantly shareable images, or draw onto windows. Or build cardboard constructions and make towers of rich illustrations!
Audiences are kept engaged, participants can see they have been heard and that their contributions are valued. Show people what they have missed or provide a welcome reminder!
Well, we work on-site when it’s safe and practical, or remotely online. We’ve worked in Cambridge, London (at the Houses of Parliament!), Nottingham, Geneva, Boston MA…
Check out some examples below.
(pssst… as you’re on a mobile, here’s a little hint: hold your thumb over an image to read an explanation about it & tap it to see it bigger)
Gilead
The pharmaceutical company Gilead organised a Tech Fair for their employees to learn about the new technologies that are available to help them do their jobs effectively. Over the course of a two day event, we sat in on all the presentations and observed the various entertainments that were laid on to encourage maximum participation. This image was built over the two days, with staff engaging, and used as a presentation piece subsequently.
Association of Colleges
The AoC holds an annual Summer Reception at the Houses of Parliament, attended by MPs and representatives from colleges across the country. We captured the goals and achievements of the AoC, plus highlights from speeches on the day.
Skills for Health
Skills for Health in conjunction with the NHS and Microsoft held an online conference to explore how the events of 2020 had led to rapid developments in digitising healthcare. Achievements were celebrated, and panellists discussed what learnings could be taken forward. Our visual notes were sent out to attendees as part of the follow-up communications.
Anne Archer Associates - Conversations with Coaches
The Conversations with Coaches series of events aim to get coaches talking about mental health through a variety of different approaches. These visual notes provide a series of summaries of what came out of the various activities and discussions.
Digital SFJ Awards
We attended Maintaining the Quality of Qualifications in the Virtual World: An SFJ Awards Insights Webinar to capture visual notes from the session to be shared after the event with the attendees. The insights of the speakers were captured in an on-brand digital sketchnote.
Capital Content Mural
Capital Content are social-first story tellers who create compelling content for their clients. They had a big blank wall in their office which was crying out for some illustration. We designed a company timeline to show the journey so far, the major milestones along the way and the company values. Once the design was signed off, we drew directly onto the wall to create a truly one-off artwork to greet clients as they step through the door.
Future Takeover St Neots, with Collusion
Organised by Cambridge-based arts & technology company Collusion, the Future Takeover was an opportunity for the residents of St Neots to think about how creativity, data and emerging technology can support the growth of the town. Attending the second day of the event, we set up a row of easels in the 'ideas café', where we listened in on conversations, and invited people to offer their thoughts and opinions to add to a series of panels which grew and developed during the course of the day.
Integrated Neighbourhood Events
A variety of agencies serving the communities of East Cambs met in-person in February 2020 and again online in 2021 to make connections and talk about how they can best work together. The first event recorded on location, on paper, the following one on Zoom, drawn digitally and shared as the final speaker made the closing comments.
Mob Happy
Mob Happy Meetup, run by Kelly Molson of Rubber Cheese, is a gathering for freelancers, business owners, creatives and agency people that are aspiring to scale and grow their organisations. The Meetup includes panel discussions featuring speakers from local agencies who have taken that leap and grown from one to many. The sketchnotes we did at their event titled 'From One to Many – Hiring Your First Team Member' were turned into a series of posts for social media to help promote the events.
Carbon Orange - See things from a different angle
Drawn to accompany a social media post we did about how taking a mindful approach to our journeys on foot can open up new possibilities, and how the same approach can apply to our problem solving.
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Take a look at our case studies and some of the other work we do