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Sketchnotes / Graphic recording / Visual facilitation

• Visual Metaphors Bible: : Break Patterns. Embrace Absurdity. Tell Better Stories, by Dario Paniagua, 2026 [EN]
• Visual Facilitation: How to use drawing and imagination to live a bold, playful and meaningful life, by Kati Orav, 2024 [EN]
• Facilitation visuelle, par Philippe Boukobza [FR]
• Creating Clarity: Transform Your Work with the Power of Visual Tools, by Holger Nils Pohl [EN]
• Myslografia, by Agata Baj [PL]
• Le grand livre de la facilitation graphique: Postures, outils, techniques et méthodes de pensée visuelle pour collaborer, par Nicolas Gros, 2023 [FR]
• Visual collaboration, by Loa Baastrup and Ole Qvist-Sorensen [EN]
• The David Sibbet’s Visual series:
  • Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change, by David Sibbet and Gisela Wendling [EN]
  • Visual Leaders: New Tools for Visioning, Management, and Organization Change, by David Sibbet [EN]
  • Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance, by David Sibbet [EN]
  • Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity, by David Sibbet [EN]
• Lettering Journey: Fast. Functional. Fun! by Heather Leavitt Martinez, Avril Orloff, Guido Neuland [EN]
• The world of visual facilitation, by 50 co-authors from all around the globe [EN]
• Generative scribing, by Kelvy Bird [EN]
• Drawn Together Through Visual Practice, by Brandy Agerbeck, Kelvy Bird, Sam Bradd, Jennifer Shepherd and 23 other contributors!! [EN]
• Penser, Dessiner, Révéler !, par Etienne Appert [FR]
• UZMO – Thinking With Your Pen, by Martin Haussmann (part of the Bikablo series) [EN]
• Bikablo, the visual dictionaries by Neuland [EN]
• Visual Doing: A Practical Guide to Incorporate Visual Thinking into Your Daily Business and Communication, by Willemien Brand
• Graphic Recording – Live Illustrations for Meetings, Conferences and Workshops, by Anna Lena Schiller & Gestalten [EN]
• The Doodle Revolution, by Sunni Brown [EN]
• The Sketchnote Handbook , by Mike Rohde [EN]
• The Sketchnote Workbook, by Mike Rohde [EN]
• The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide, by Brandy Agerbeck [EN]
• Draw Your Big Idea, by Nora Herting, Heather Willems [EN]
• 100 + 1 Drawing Ideas: 100 + 1 Drawing Ideas for Sketchnoters and Doodler, by Mauro Toselli [EN]
• The xLontrax Theory of Sketchnote, by Mauro Toselli [EN]
• The Pop-up Pitch: The Two-Hour Creative Sprint to the Most Persuasive Presentation of Your Life, by Dan Roam, 2021 [EN]
• Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind, by Dan Roam, 2016 [EN]
• Blah, Blah, Blah: What to Do When Words Don’t Work, by Dan Roam, 2011 [EN]
• Unfolding the Napkin, by Dan Roam, 2009 [EN]
• The Back of the Napkin , by Dan Roam, 2009 [EN]
• Drawing Type: An Introduction to Illustrating Letterforms, by Alex Fowkes [EN]
• Stik, by Stik 🙂 [EN]
• Drawing is Thinking, by Milton Glaser [EN]
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Betty Edwards [EN]
• Drawing on the Dominant Eye, by Betty Edwards [EN]
• Pencil me in, by Christina Wodtke [EN]

In the between

• Reality Strikes Back: A Cartoon Guide to Complexity, by Virpi Oinonen, 2026 [EN]
• Eye and Brain, The Psychology of Seeing, by Richard L. Gregory [EN]
• Liminal thinking, by Dave Gray [EN]
• The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts, by Marie Neurath [EN]
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, by Nancy Duarte, 2013 [EN]
• Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design, by Mark Baskinger and William Bardel [EN]
• Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers, by Steven Heller, Lita Talarico [EN]
• Typography Sketchbooks, by Steven Heller, Talarico Lita [EN]
• A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm, by Denman W. Ross [EN]
• Creativity Sucks: And 30 Other Things I’ve Learned while Living a Weird, Amazing, Crazy, Creative Life, by Phil Hansen [EN]
• Mind in Motion, by Barbara Tversky [EN]
• Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, by Austin Kleon, 2014 [EN]
• Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by Austin Kleon – 2012 [EN]

Data Visualisation and infographics

• How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo [EN]
• Knowledge is beautiful and Information is Beautiful by David McCandless (IIB) [EN]
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte [EN]
• Envisioning Information, by Edward Tufte [EN]
• Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, by Edward Tufte [EN]
• Dear Data, by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec [EN]
• Infodesign : Le management visuel de l’information à l’heure du Big Data, de Yann Guilain [FR]
• The Grammar of Graphics, by Leland Wilkinson [EN]
• The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, by Alberto Cairo [EN]
• Storytelling with Data, by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic [EN]