What is Graphic Recording?
A graphic recorder in action illustrating a conference
Perhaps you are thinking about having a conference illustrator attend your event. Perhaps you have an idea that a scribe might attend your workshop. Or that someone might come and draw your meeting. So what on earth is Graphic Recording?
Graphic Recording is the formal description, in academic and intellectual terms, for someone who shows up at your event with a bit of paper and draws stuff.
Whatever the terminology, the impact on an event of Graphic Recording being made is profound.
David Sibbett of The Grove is the godfather of the art and his book ‘Visual Meetings’ is required reading to all visual practitioners. In it he describes how audiences are ‘drawn into paying a lot more attention, and literally getting stirred up in the process’.
Graphic Facilitation and by extension Graphic Recording are well developed practices. We don’t know if David Sibbet would approve (and we hold in in the highest regard) but we have our own way of Graphic Recording. We like to ‘zuzh’ it up a bit with extra cartoons!
A prime example of a piece of graphic recording with a large dash of ZUZH!
