This is my non-exhaustive list of resources related to visuals on the web. Many of them are about techniques like sketchnoting, visual recording and/or facilitation. You will also find links to neuroscience, history of art, science of images, listening techniques, etc. Enjoy!
Videos
My “Visual thinking” playlist on YouTube:
Other videos (not on YouTube):
- Sunni Brown – Tedx UT – The Doodle Revolution [VIMEO]
- TedTalk 5 ways to listen better [TED]
- Graphic facilitator Sam Bradd discusses his role as a graphic facilitator and the visual language [Not Youtube]
Other video’s playlists:
- Doodles by Sarah
- Sylvia Duckworth’s sketchnotes
- How to Draw by Scriberia
- Karen Bosch
- Verbal to Visual by Doug Neill
- Bigger Pictures Guide to Visual Facilitation
- benjamin felis – graphic recording
- Diane Bleck
Podcasts
Listen to 150+ episodes over 14 seasons in the archives of The Sketchnote Army Podcast, Mike Rohde’s interviews to sketchnoters and visual thinkers.
Articles
- A Beginner’s Guide To Creating Colourful, Therapeutic Drawings, on British Vogue
- The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking, research article Psychological Science
- Brain Expert Jim Kwik Teaches a Whole New Way to Take Notes and It’s Genius, on Inc.
- Engagement in video and audio narratives: contrasting self-report and physiological measures, scientific report on Nature
- Learning through mess: Sensemaking visual communication practices in a UK multidisciplinary applied health study, research article on SageJournal
- How does visual thinking help you at work?, Vision Factory
- 3 benefits of visual mapping in meetings, mindmappingsoftwareblog
- 10 benefits of doodling for creativity, productivity and focus, Canva
- The Cognitive Benefits of Doodling, The Atlantic
- Start Doodling in Class: The Value of Lo Fi Graphics in eLearning, Trakstar Learn
- The Benefits of Visual Note Taking in the Classroom, The Teaching Distillery
- Doodling should be encouraged in boring meetings, claims psychologist, The Guardian
- The Power of Doodling: How Doodles Can Lead to Great Ideas, Best Accredited Colleges
- How Visual Thinking Can Help Teams Get Clarity, Be More Creative, and Have More Inclusive Meetings, Gemma Honour on InfoQ
- Visual Thinking: Definition, Examples, and Tips, MindMaster
- The Benefits of Visual Thinking, IQ Doodle
- What Is Visual Thinking?, by Harappa
- A Complete Guide to Visual Content: The Science, Tools and Strategy of Creating Killer Images
- Colours in cultures, by IIB
- Why you should take notes by hand — not on a laptop
- The 3 reasons why you can’t draw, (and what to do about it)
- What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades
- Goethe on the Psychology of Color and Emotion
- Why Your Brain Loves Visual Content
- Precision in harvest planning
- Adobe Says Drawing Should Be Like Writing—A Skill We Teach Everyone
- Getting Started With Sketchnoting
- Dual Coding Theory on Wikipedia
- Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool
- Sketchnoting
- ‘Prehistoric Sistine Chapel’ gets world heritage status
- Nancy Duarte on Failure, Bootstrapping, and the Power of Better Presentations
- The Four Ways To Work Visually
- Listening is good for you: Four steps to mastering active listening
- Here is why how and what you should doodle to boost your memory and creativity
- The Art of Sketchnoting
- Sunni Brown: Changing the World One Doodle at a Time
- The Miseducation of the Doodle, by Sunni Brown
- Stats Shouldn’t Stand Alone: Why You Need Data Visualization to Teach and Convince
- The 10 commandments visual communication
- Content and Meaning. Story-telling and Story-listening
- Kamishibai: Lessons in visual storytelling from Japan
- Facts about the human brain
- Visual language and converging technologies in the next 10-15 years (and beyond)
- Sketchnoting 101: How To Create Awesome Visual Notes
- Why I like sketchnoting
- The centre of visual literacy [Toledo museum of Art]
- Sketchnoting for beginners
- Sketchnoting for learning by Silvia Tolisano
- A Graphic Facilitation Retrospective
- Why Integrating Art into the Classroom May Improve Content Retention
- Learning through drawing: developing visual literacy
- Vision Statement: Tired of PowerPoint? Try This Instead
- Creativity on the Run: 18 Apps that Support the Creative Process
- After learning new words, brain sees them as pictures
- The brain science behind stories that grip your audience (All stories are visual)
- Picasso on Intuition, How Creativity Works, and Where Ideas Come From
- 13 reasons your brain craves infographics
- The Science Behind Why Our Brains Crave Infographics (In an Infographic)
- Just doodling: telling the story with a few pen strokes
- 6 Massive Myths about Creativity you need to jettison from your belief system, now
- Sketchnotes 101: The Basics of Visual Note-taking
- How the Brain Works and What It Means For Your Presentation
- The difference between sketch note, graphic recording and graphic facilitation
- Graphic recording vs event sketchnoting – which service to use to illustrate an event?
- Study finds why some colors appear more memorable than others
- To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand
- Chris Riddell wants to encourage “drawing every day”
- What I Learned From 100 Doodles In 100 Days
- Working Visually: The Only Way Out Is Through (+ the whole site)
- How Your Brain Understands Visual Language
- Take Better Notes: A Beginner’s Guide to Graphic Recording
- A Digital Graphic Recorder’s Review of the WorkVisual App
- Because sketching notes is so much more fun
- 50+ awesome resources to create visual notes, graphic recordings and sketchnotes
- Visual Thinking sketch notes [< fantastic to explain visuals for all + look at ebook]
- 5 Visual Storytelling Trends to Watch Out For in 2016
- What Creating Sketchnotes Taught Me About #Learning [great blog by @tnvora]
- Sketchnotes and Visual Note-Taking
- 10 Tips to Get Started with Sketchnoting Workshop
- Using a vision board to keep yourself on track
- Visualizations That Really Work
- What does it look like to be a live events artist?
- Lettering Stylesheet, from @ItsLilpeanut blog
- The comeback of cursive
- Great listening starts with understanding HOW we listen, by Sophia Liang
- Qu’est ce que la Facilitation Graphique?, par Marc Dugue
- Art lessons: drawing portraits, perspectives, etc
- The art of sketchnotes
- The cognitive benefits of doodling
- How drawing helps you remember?
- Visual thinking and the neuroleadership
- La peinture comme thérapie
- Le blog de http://www.axelmage.com/blog/ > différences entre facilitation graphique et scribing et sketchnoting, etc…
- La facilitation graphique au service de l’apprentissage
- Facilitation graphique : un langage visuel pour une vision commune
- La facilitation graphique, quand tout devient possible
- Quelle différence entre Graphic Facilitation et Graphic Recording?
- La facilitation graphique est la visualisation au service des interactions
- Brush lettering: it only gets better after practice
- The practice will set you free
- Why You Should Communicate with Your Employees Using Visuals
- Visual Story Design Process or How to Avoid Writing Procrastination
- Visual Thinking in Generating Ideas. Five Simple Steps
- Sketchnoting, an analog skill in the digital age
- Le Scribing : Dessiner En Travaillant
- The Power of (Digital) Drawing at Work
- Facilitation graphique : Comment retoucher ses photos de fresque ?
- Communicate your ideas using a flip chart or the back of a napkin
- How Visual Notes Helped a Student With a Learning Disability Thrive
- Why it’s time to ditch Powerpoint and master the art of the truly visual presentation
- To enhance your meetings, clarify your goals
- Essential Elements of Graphic Facilitation
- Visual Note Taking Techniques: An ImageThink Guide to Graphic Recording
- How to get started as a graphic recorder, by Sam Bradd
- Create memories by sketching, by Chris Spalton
- Why Live Drawing is Replacing PowerPoint by Lindsay Wilson, Co-founder of INK FACTORY
- Drawing Is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn, According to New Research by Jessica Stillman
- The Science of Drawing and Memory – Want students to remember something? Ask them to draw it by Youki Terada
- Sketchnoting resources for teachers by Sylvia Duckworth
- Sketchnotes, basics by Frédéric Duriez
- Augmented reality & graphic facilitation
- Sketchnotes and a Growth Mindset, by Rob Dimeo
- “The first step to knowing something, is knowing you don’t know”, by Matt & Gail Taylor
- Study shows stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on tablet or smartphone, by University of Tokyo
- A Brief History of Modern Scribing/Graphic Recording
- The most productive meetings don’t have slide decks
- How To Develop A Listening Mindset
- The 4 Key Responsibilities and Roles for Live Visual Storytelling
- Collective Storytelling: 6 Fundamentals of Graphic Reporting
- The drawing effect: Evidence for reliable and robust memory benefits in free recall
- The act of drawing something has a massive benefit for memory compared with writing it down
- Visualising change series
- Make it visual: tecniche e strumenti della healthcare communication
Other resources and blogs
- The Kelvy Bird’s blog [Great resource for levels of listening, tangible and intangible, etc]
- Design Thinking hub by Andi Roberts
- Visual practice resources by Andi Roberts
- Top Sketchnote Resources by SketchnoteHangout
- Tools for visual thinking by Dan Roam
- Visual harvesting’s blog
- http://www.thinkvisual.ie
- Michelle Walker’s blog (curiousmindsco)
- Resources about Graphic Recording / Graphic Facilitation
International Sketchnote Camps (ISC)
- ISC24TX – coming in San Antonio, Texas, in Aug 2024
- ISC23NL website – Leiden, The Netherlands, Sep 2023
- ISC22PL website – Szczecin, Poland, Sep 2022
- ISC21BE website, the ISC in Brussels, Belgium, in Sep 2021 that I had the privilege to organise (we cancelled the ISC20BE edition due to the COVID pandemic)
- ISC19FR – on Twitter – Paris, France, Sep 2019
- ISC18LX – on Twitter – Lisboa, Portugal, Sep 2018
- ISC17HH – on Twitter – Hamburg, Germany, Sep 2017
Hashtags on social media
Some interesting hashtags to find content on social media (x/twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, etc)
#todaysdoodle #sketchnotes #graphicrecording #sketchnotes #UnPictoParJour #SNHangout #SNChallenge
#inktober9999 with 9999 as the year of the Inktober challenge
#SNDay9999 with 9999 as the year of the Sketchnote Day