Whats a live scribing artist?

Live scribing (or Graphic recording) is thinking fast with visuals. Creating art during a talk, conference or event. It has other names like visual minutes, sketch noting and graphic facilitation.

Live scribing can help make an event more engaging. It's the process of capturing a live event as engaging colourful visuals. It's a great way to support individuals and teams.

Do you need Live Scribing at your event?

It can take various forms;

• Capturing a speaker's words as visuals as they deliver their talk at a conference
• Working with a team at a company away day, turning feedback into posters
• Capturing company core values as spoken notes and turning them into highly polished illustrations
• 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual

Live art is a great way to create takeaways and retain information once an event occurs.
At an event, all artwork is owned by the clients once it has been created, and can be reused however they like. Often on office walls or social media.

Putting smiles on faces

Often my illustrations use humour to get the message across, so you'll be putting smiles on faces too. Seeing live artwork being created helps others get in a creative mood too, so your audience is buzzing and energised.

Are you a visual learner? Live scribing is a great way to make your event have an impact on your audience. Opinions, stories and light bulb moments are captured and remembered for you and your attendees long after the event has passed.

On this page are examples from various live events around the UK both live virtually for hybrid events.

Live event artist for, 'in the room' hybrid and online events.

Graphic recording / Live recording / Live drawing (it has many names).

Creating art at speed is a challenge and the goal is to find a balance of words and pictures to summarise the theme of the talk. As an artist, I have to be present and adapt quickly to the visuals I'm creating.

There's a graphic design shorthand at work. Connecting what speakers are saying with what images are commonly represented by the subject being spoken about. There's also humour, as I like to add appropriate humour to visuals. Just my opinion, though I think with more serious topics, using a little light humour can help with how people engage with difficult subjects, and some of my clients agree.

Clients include;

• Manchester City Council
• Roche
• Hologic
• Willmott Dixon Construction
• Liverpool Hilton
• NIHR - National Institute for Health and Care Research
• UK BCorp Conference
• National Fire Chiefs Council
• National Deaf Society
• Digital Manchester
• NHS North West
• Bureau Veritas

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