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
- Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!
- Sunni Brown – Tedx UT – The Doodle Revolution
- Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning
- Brandy Agerbeck at TEDxWindyCity: Shape Your Thinking
- Brandy Agerbeck’s Opening Keynote at the Intl Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference 2013
- Brandy Agerbeck’s introduction to graphic facilitation
- Brandy Agerbeck’s graphic facilitation Show & Tell: Limited Colors
- Draw more, together: Ole Qvist-Sørensen at TEDxCopenhagen 2012
- Dan Roam discusses his book “The Back of the Napkin at Google
- TedTalk 5 ways to listen better
- What Is Graphic Recording?
- Learning Graphic Facilitation – 7 Elements by Bigger Picture
- Learning Graphic Facilitation – 8th Element by Bigger Picture
- Visual Facilitation Short Cuts
- Visual Thinking 101 by Sean Griffin
- Sketcho Frenzy: The Basics of Visual Note-taking
- The Value of Visualization
- Thinking made visual
- ImageThink in Action
- You can’t draw? I don’t believe you
- Why people believe they can’t draw – and how to prove they can | Graham Shaw | TEDxHull
- Graphic facilitator Sam Bradd discusses his role as a graphic facilitator and the visual language
- Getting into the Head of the Graphic Recorder
- Visual Note Taking, by Makayla Lewis
- The Diane Bleck doodle show
- Julie Gieseke takes us on a journey through her experience and the evolution of graphic recording
- The Art & Science of Drawing: Dynamic Mark Making
- Etienne Appert Conférence “Dessiner la pensée pour mieux la révéler”
- How drawing helps you think | Ralph Ammer | TEDxTUM
- Visual Storytelling – Future of Work by Scott McArthur
- The 4 Key Responsibilities and Roles for Live Visual Storytelling
- The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning by Edutopia
- What is Visual Literacy? by Toledo Museum of Art
- Visual thinking with Dr Draw
- Doodles by Sarah’s playlist
- Sylvia Duckworth’s sketchnotes playlist
- Scriberia’s How to Draw playlist
- Karen Bosch’s playlist
- Doug Neill, Verbal to Visual’s playlist
- Dan Roam’s videos
Podcasts
- The Sketchnote Army Podcast: 80+ episodes where Mike Rohde interviews sketchnoters and visual thinkers
Articles
- 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
- More Than A Thousand Words: The Power of Visual Storytelling
- The Power of Visual Storytelling
- Getting Started With Sketchnoting
- Dual Coding Theory
- 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
- The Power of Doodling: How Doodles Can Lead to Great Ideas
- 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]
- Doodling should be encouraged in boring meetings, claims psychologist
- 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
- Visual Work and Thinking
- 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
- Start Doodling in Class: The Value of Lo Fi Graphics in eLearning
- 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
- The Cognitive Benefits of Doodling
- 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]
- 7 Ways Doodling Will Change Your Life
- 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
- 3 benefits of visual mapping in meetings
- 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 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
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)
- The ISC21BE website, for the ISC in Brussels in Sep 2021 (ISC20BE was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic)
- ISC19FR – on Twitter (Paris, Sep 2019)
- ISC18LX – on Twitter (Lisboa, Sep 2018)
- ISC17HH – on Twitter (Hamburg, Sep 2017)
Social Media
- #todaysdoodle
- #sketchnotes
- #graphicrecording
- Apprenez les #sketchnotes avec #UnPictoParJour (on Twitter, IS) http://unpictoparjour.fr/
- Inktober challenges on Twitter/Instagram (I participated in #inktober2018 on Twitter and Instagram)
- Sketchnote Hangouts #SNHangout
- Sketchnote Challenges #SNChallenge
- Sketchnote Days: #SNDay20xx with 20xx as the year