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In this episode, Natalie Taylor shares how she slowly built her sketchnoting skills and is now sharing her work through her channels.Sponsored by ConceptsThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts, a perfect tool for sketchnoting, available on iOS, Windows, and Android.Concepts' vector-based drawing feature gives you the power to adjust your drawings — any time you like. You can nudge the curve of a line, swap out one brush for another, or change stroke thickness and color at any stage of your drawing — saving hours and hours of rework.Vectors provide clean, crisp, high-resolution output for your sketchnotes at any size you need — large or small. Never worry about fuzzy sketchnotes again.Concepts is a powerful, flexible tool that's ideal for sketchnoting.SEARCH “Concepts” in your favorite app store to give it a try.Running OrderIntroWelcomeWho is Natalie?Origin StoryNatalie's current workSponsor: ConceptsTipsToolsWhere to find NatalieOutroLinksAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.WebsiteInstagramSylvia DuckworthThe Sketchbook Handbook by Mike RohdeDoug Neill's YouTube channelToolsAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast. Brush pens - Crawford & BlackSharpie gel pensStaedtler two-end marker pensCrawford and Black SketchbookiPad ProApple pencilProcreateEvernoteNoteshelfTipsInvest and improve in what you love.Recognize what is your strength. Focus on your strength as you try and improve your weaknesses.Share your work.Write down your ideas.Get involved with the community.CreditsProducer: Alec PulianasTheme music: Jon SchiedermayerShownotes and transcripts: Esther OdoroSubscribe to the Sketchnote Army PodcastYou can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.Support the PodcastTo support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!Episode TranscriptMike Rohde: Hey everyone, it's Mike and I'm here with my friend, Natalie Taylor. Natalie, welcome to the show. It's so good to have you.Natalie Taylor: Thanks, Mike. It's so good to meet you, and thank you so much for inviting me on to the show.MR: It's good to have you and I love your accent. We mentioned this before we started recording. Your British accent into the north, which I picked up. It's fun to hear. I don't hear it all the time, so I will enjoy that as we have a discussion. Tell us about who you are and what you do.NT: I am Natalie. I'm from the Northeast, as you've mentioned, in a small seaside town. Full-time, professionally wise. I'm a market manager at a brilliant university here in the Northeast, and I'm an avid sketch noter on the side in my spare time.MR: That's great. We'll definitely dive into the sketchnoting details. That's what this is all about for all the crazy fans of sketchnoting who are willing to listen to a podcast or watch a YouTube video and learn. I think that's what it's all about. I'm really curious, so we know what you're doing now. Obviously, you've got some skills in marketing. How did you end up where you're at?Maybe particularly, from a visual thinking perspective, were there things that happened when you were a little girl that directed you, or maybe in your college years or, school years that guided you to where you are now? What would be those key moments if you were to give me an origin story, I like to call it? Like a superhero origin story for Natalie Taylor.NT: I love that. I love the Avengers origin story. That's what it always makes me think of.MR: Yes.NT: Looking back, it's interesting when I've listened to the podcast, I've listened to so many episodes and I notice a lot of people tend to describe that they've always been very artistic and very into doodling and drawing. For me, I used to think that I wasn't very creative, but looking back, I've always been quite creative, but more in the writing sense. I have always doodled, but I wouldn't sit and draw and do these kind of detailed drawings. It would be very basic, like smiley face, love, heart, and flowers.I would say it's quite a recent thing that I've got into sketchnoting. I say recently it's probably 9 or 10 years that I've been into presenting information in that way. Yeah, it's interesting 'cause I didn't have that artistic background if that makes sense.University, I studied media and communications, which at the time, it got given a bad rap a lot of the time as a degree that isn't sometimes as respected as some degrees. But looking back at that, that was very creative and a lot of the tools that I used in that degree are tools that I still use now. Things like Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, even setting up a website, creating a magazine.It was all creative and using graphics in that way. Like you mentioned, my professional background is in marketing and communications, so I've been in that for around 11 years-ish. It's a little long-winded way into how I got into sketchnoting but when I finished university, I wasn't quite sure what to do.It was just based around what jobs I was looking at the time and I thought, oh, PR and marketing obviously sounds quite fun and that's creative. It was creating leaflets and a lot of design work I suppose. That is kind of in the artistic realm. It was for the local fire brigades that was creating a lot of leaflets and newsletters for the local community about fire safety.That's how I got into marketing and having quite a creative role professionally. But it wasn't until my next role, 'cause that was a one-year temporary contract that I learned about sketch noting. I was working at a very, very small startup in the ed tech field.They had this brilliant software, which was the result of academic research all about collaborative learning. It started on this amazing technology. I dunno if you've ever seen the huge tabletops. When they were around, it was around 5,000 pounds, I think one of these tables.MR: I've seen the Microsoft Surface table, the original surface, years and years ago. Something like that.NT: Yeah, exactly. Similar to that. I think it worked on that and the Promethean giant tables. It was for this very specific hardware and then it adapted to be for iPads. But when I say small startup, it was me and the director, they were the directors, but not working full-time and then a computer programmer. I was doing everything marketing and communications and trying to raise the profile of this small startup company.It's part of that getting involved, building up the Twitter following, and finding things that people would find interesting. I don't think I've actually mentioned, but basically, the target audience was teachers and educators. It was when I started going on basically education Twitter that I came across Sylvia Duckworth.MR: Oh, yeah.NT: Who's sketch notes I absolutely love. That was my first experience of sketch notes and I would just look at them and be like, "Wow, these are absolutely brilliant. And they're just conveying the message she wants to converse so well that I thought I'd absolutely love to give this a go." I did find it really, really hard to get to grips with how to actually start.At the time I would just share her sketch notes with our Twitter followers 'cause they would find them really interesting. Then as part of that role, there was also the Bett show in London. This is a very international education technology conference, and we would go along to that. We didn't have our own stand but would be on hardware stalls and demonstrate in how the hardware could be used with our software.MR: Got it.NT: Then there was just snippets of time I had to go and watch some of the keynote speakers so I remember trying to take in—Sylvia had put some advice out on how to do sketch notes, but I had at the time a little iPad mini and I didn't have a stylus. I remember just trying to do sketch notes just with my finger on the iPad Mini which was really hard.MR: Yeah. Frustrating.NT: Yes.MR: I've tried that. I can relate.NT: I bet you, yeah. It's so tricky. Sylvia shared guidance on tools and things. I clicked on the links and it was this stylus that wasn't available in the UK and I just couldn't find an alternative so I tried doing them with my finger. Then I think I just become a little bit disillusioned with it 'cause I just thought mine are never gonna be anything that I could present to anyone or that people would find interesting.As time went on, I just practiced in my own time. Then I went to Japan on holiday, and they're obviously known for stationery and technology so I got a stylist there. I just played around with it on the flight home on Procreate. I'm still, to this day, not sure why I didn't ever think of trying analog and just getting paper and pens. I think maybe I did try, but just with felt tips and biros, and then I just was a bit like, "Oh, these aren't very visually appealing."MR: Just didn't fit, right?NT: Yeah, exactly. Gradually, I just built up and just practiced. With this stylus, I did start doing some—It would take me hours 'cause I would do a lot of tweaks afterwards and start tweaking around. I suggested to my manager, but again, 'cause we were such a small business, I had to have a lot of different hats on, so I couldn't just explore sketch noting, but I said, you know, these are really kind of intriguing teachers. So, occasionally I would start one and then do a lot of it in my own time, but I started doing almost as a marketing technique.Essentially, what the software was, was like card sorting activities. You might have one on a particular moment in history and then students would have to work with them and match them up and group them together. It was all about how it demonstrated their thinking and how they'd come to a conclusion. I would just do things like 17 reasons to create your own card sort or you know, the top 10 things about collaborative learning.I'd develop the confidence to write using the stylus and it looked quite nice, but still the drawing was just not something that I was very competent in. I would sometimes get free icon libraries and just put them in instead of actually drawing them myself.They were really successful actually at getting the message across as to what the software was, and Sylvia's work in sketch note and hers was still something I aspired towards, but I became more confident to share them on our channels.MR: It's interesting that you had, I guess an inspiration, Sylvia, right? Doing this work, so you knew, it's nice when you see that. Even if you feel like I can't quite achieve it, I have a focusing point and I'm gonna go for that. You're trying all these techniques, you're buying an iPad, you're trying to use your finger, you're trying analog and it doesn't fit, and then you find a stylus in Japan. You keep on moving.There was something about you that's pretty dedicated. You were gonna get there somehow. You didn't know how you're gonna get there and you kept on fighting through it even though a lot of people might have given up and it seems like you didn't. Why do you think that was that you didn't give up? That's really fascinating to me.NT: When you've said it like that, I suppose I was quite determined. The main reason is that I just enjoyed it so much. Like I said, I couldn't dedicate much time in the professional day to it, even though there were marketing tools, but I might do the baseline in maybe an hour, and then that weekend I would spend a few hours of my own time doing it purely because I just really enjoyed it.Sylvia's sketch notes, a lot of them were based towards educators, but a lot of them were quite general. Some of them she did were around mental health, which is something else that I'm really passionate about. That mental health sketch notes are probably one of the biggest things I do now since I'm not in that role anymore.The sketch notes that I do have completely changed. That's how I first started learning them. I think the reason why I stuck with it is because I saw how impactful Sylvia's were on me. I remember printing off a couple before and keeping them up. She did one on the iceberg effect, things that you see on the surface versus what's actually going on underneath, and I just found them really inspirational.MR: I'm sort of putting pieces together. On the one hand, you enjoyed it, so I there's one component. I find, like when you have multiple components that you're more likely to stay driven. You had the enjoyment part of it. You had enough success that you thought maybe I could do some portion of it. You talked about you like the writing, but then you would use icons so that is part of it too.But then on top of it, you could see the effectiveness of the sketch notes she did from a marketing perspective. You know what works in marketing, it's obviously impacting you. You're starting to see it probably in other places. Like this is an opportunity and I can see how it could work, but there was still a gap of getting to where you could do them to communicate and that just took time, right?NT: Exactly. Exactly.MR: That's interesting.NT: I think it must have been around two years ago that I came across your book, Sketching Army, and that completely revolutionized the whole thing again.MR: Oh, wow.NT: I just came across this whole community that I didn't know existed. I knew Sylvia had a sketch noting book, but it was specifically for educators. I'd been beavering a way of doing these things in my own time, but without much guidance or training. I think I did find Doug Neill's YouTube channel.MR: He's Great. Yeah, Doug is great.NT: Yeah, absolutely brilliant. I did a lot of his tools. I remember there was simple tips on how to practice so he had, I think I call it the dictionary game. Basically, you get a dictionary, open it to a random page and sketch note a word.MR: That's a good one.NT: Yeah. That really helped just gradually dipping my toes in. It's only been the last couple of years that I've actually shared them on my own channel and done them on things that I'm directly passionate about.MR: Cool. It's been a progression, right? You've been slowly building up your skills and now you're at the point where you are doing your own sketch notes and you're sharing them on your channel, and you've built those skills up through practice.That reminds me to say to people who are new to this, they'll come to me when I do little workshops and say, "How can I do this?" Like, "Well, it's not easy, but it's still fun. You can have success to a certain degree, but to get better at it, you're gonna have to practice. I don't know how to tell you that there's a substitute, there's no magic pill you can take. There's no, can't jump in a time machine. You just have to do it."What I'd identify in your story is this idea of overlapping. I keep coming across this when I can do one thing that overlaps with something else that I like that's more successful. If I can layer in a third thing, the success rate goes up, the more I can integrate several parts of my life or my interests.If you're a gardener, let's say, if you're passionate about gardening, well, planning your garden like as a sketch note might be really fun on multiple levels so you're more likely to do it and really get into it and maybe build a technique that you could then maybe you could actually teach other people how you approach that, right?NT: Yeah.MR: That's pretty cool, and I see that in your story. That's really fun and it's really satisfying for me to hear someone who's dedicated and committed to following the passion and multiple passions to arrive where you are, which is really cool.NT: Thank you. I do absolutely love sketch noting. I think that's the main thing is that I just really enjoy it and I would see some sketch notes and think—when I discovered the community on Instagram and looked at your sketch notes and sketch notes in the book, it was a case of, "Wow, these are absolutely fantastic. I might not be there now, but I can keep practicing the exercises in your book and Doug's channel."I've got another book that's just purely doodling different objects. When I had to self- isolate with COVID over last new year, I think it was, I spent hours just doodling and practicing.MR: Well, that's good. You probably accelerated your skills there. Like taking a bad situation and making it into something worthwhile, right?NT: Yeah.MR: I got COVID, and all I got was better at drawing, or whatever.NT: Yeah. It's a nice positive spin on something not good.MR: Yeah, exactly. You make the best out of what you've got.NT: Yeah.MR: This is really fascinating. I love hearing the origin story, my favorite part of the podcast because I think it's interesting for me to hear it, but I can imagine there's people listening, I don't even know who they are, who feel like, "Oh, you know, I'm a marketing manager, I can't sketch note, but Natalie's a marketing manager and she's sketch notes and that's her story. She really had to work at it, and it took a long time. Well, I could do that."You can relate to people because there's such a variety. We try to find such a variety of people that hopefully it inspires anybody who listens that they can do it. It takes work like anything worthwhile, it's gonna take work. You said you're a writer, like the only way you get better at writing, is to write. There's no substitute, and reading, of course. Reading to get inspired by like, "Wow, look how they turned that phrase or the way they structured that thing. I wanna copy that."NT: Exactly.MR: It's definitely a form of—imitation is really important. Imitating, what other people doing, but then—I think that Natalie or Austin Kleon often talks about this idea that copying is helpful because as much as you try to copy that other person, you're not gonna get an exact copy. Eventually, your personality's gonna come through on it and you're gonna add your own little tweaks and twists and it becomes your own without you really realizing it. There is definitely a benefit to copying people to get better and figure out where you're going. That's very helpful.NT: Yeah. Definitely.MR: For you, Sylvia Duckworth, I guess is probably one of those key figures that you were trying not so much to copy, but to emulate and to follow and produce something on the level of Sylvia that would communicate the way you saw it impacted you, which is really, really fun to hear.NT: Yeah, exactly. I really love her work.MR: I'm really curious about what is some exciting sketchnoting-related project that you're working on. You mentioned mental health sketch notes, is where you're at. Is there one that you're doing now or a series or something maybe that's coming up that you're excited about that you could share with us?NT: Yes. In general, I love doing sketch notes on mental health. I think that came about with if I was having a particular struggle, I would just Google that struggle. It might be overthinking, for example, which is one of my more popular sketch notes, and I'd just put into Google ways to stop overthinking.Rather than just read that article and come away with maybe a point that I was gonna try that week and then forget about, I would start sketch noting that and sketch note podcast and books to actually learn from that. Then the bonus is that then helping other people. I've got a project coming up with a lead in mental health psychology publication that I'm gonna do a collaborative post with, and that's gonna be on four ways on how to be kind to yourself.MR: Oh, wow.NT: It's in the similar realm to the overthinking one that I've done. What's interesting is sometimes, I've noticed my friends who are very supportive and family, they'll come up with ideas and say, "Have you thought about doing this?" One thing that I'm doing at the moment is baby sketch notes.I've got quite a few friends who are having babies at the moment. One of my friends said, "Have you thought about doing a baby sketch note about the day they were born?" I took that idea and thought of different ways to make it a bit more interesting. It's like what song is number one at the time, the horoscope, the Chinese zodiac, and actually, getting those printed and framed for friends and people who'd like them.That's a very recent thing that I've started to do. I've recently done some work with an ADHD podcast who they thought it would be really interesting to sketch note one of their podcast episodes. That's been fascinating as well because I did the sketch note and my style, it is a little bit more wordy than some people's and there can be a lot going on.When she shared it on her channel, there was a lot of really positive feedback of those people saying—I remember one comment that said something like, "I'd absolutely love a whole book like illustrated in this way on ADHD because it's exactly how my brain works."But then there was a few comments that said the complete opposite in that it's just too overwhelming and there's too much to take in, so it's interesting how it works in that way. For some people it resonates and some people it just doesn't work for them in completely opposite extremes.MR: Right. I've got kids that have ADHD, and the two boys that have it, the way they react to it is quite different. They have different experiences. I think within ADHD, you could have someone with ADHD who thinks, "This is amazing, this is the way I think." Then somebody else who's got a slight variation of it would be overwhelming to them. Just people, in general, that can't maybe get into it. I think that's the nature of just humans.NT: Yeah, exactly.MR: If I go to my Amazon page and look at the reviews, there's quite a few good reviews, but there's some bad ones too. I'm a fan of Seth Godin, and he says, "Once you release your book into the world, you just stop looking at the reviews because the book now belongs to the public and you can't really do anything. It belongs to them. Looking at reviews doesn't do you any good." So, I don't.NT: That's really good. Well done on the self-discipline there. 'Cause yeah, I can imagine it's tempted to rake through them and then you've got to try and train your brain to focus on the positive ones, I guess.MR: It was probably harder at the beginning when there was very few 'cause I felt like we had a technical issue with the Kindle version that a lot of people complained about. If you look way back in the—all the one-star reviews are Kindle failures which we had no control over. It just must have been so a technical accident. We eventually sorted it out and got it solved, but in the meantime, there's all these one-star reviews, which you can't really remove.That feeling like you have to answer like what happened over and over again, and there's nothing you can do, but at some point, you just kinda let it go. The book's been around for 10 years, so that's more important than if there's enough good reviews on the book. In some ways, maybe that's the same thing when you do a sketch note, there's just gonna be people that don't relate to it and it doesn't work for them and that's okay.NT: Yeah. That's very true.MR: It's better to focus on the ones who it does resonate with because they will appreciate it and then you can make them the audience that you are thinking about as you're doing your work. Those people will really like it, and if someone else doesn't, there's plenty more on social media to look at. You don't have to look at my thing.NT: Exactly. They're also different on them with sketch noting styles. I find it fascinating and I don't think you necessarily—I mean, I didn't kind of set out with a style in. Especially, probably the last year, I think a particular style, but when I look back at the ones when I started sketch note and maybe seven, eight years ago on my little iPad they're just completely different.I use all wild colors and whereas now they're quite toned back and I'll just use one color, but that's kind of learning as you go. The podcast has been absolutely amazing, hearing about different techniques and tools and tips. That's really, really helped.MR: I just happened to pop up Instagram here and head it up so I could be aware of your stuff. I happen to look at six reasons to visit Maple and Doe, which I assume is a little shop that you like. It's just really straightforward and simple and fun. There's six really simple.I think the thing too that sketchnoting does, just by the nature of how it works, is you typically have everything on one page. You don't have to look through multiple pages. You can just get everything on a page and look through it. I can definitely see, if I scan back through your stuff, as you keep on improving, you keep on trying new things and that's really good to see.It does make sense now that you tell me that your background is in writing and that's a real strong thing for you. Me too, for my book, I wrote the whole manuscript before I drew a single thing. I think in words too. Sometimes I have to remind myself, "Okay, you can draw something, Mike." I can do like lettering and text and still have fun with the layouts and stuff and just little images sprinkled in and that's okay.It's nice that there's that variation. You could be really visual and do lots of drawings and very little text on one side and then on the other side you could be very textual with just drawings as little sprinkles, and anywhere in between there, which it's great that the sketch note community is so varied that everybody can come at it and express it in their way, which is great to see.NT: Exactly. That's really interesting that you said that you've have tended to think more in text form as well, and visuals and illustrations are brilliant. I would never have thought that it come from the other way around, if that makes sense.MR: It surprises people. A lot of times for me to solve a problem, I might write out the problem first. Then it enters into my verbal side, to quote Doug Niell. Then once I understand it verbally, because that's how I was trained as a kid, then I can engage the visual side of me, which I probably did more drawing before I knew how to write and read. Those then kick in and layer on top of it. It's pretty fun.Well, that sounds like a really fun project. I can't wait to see when it comes out. As later on in the show we'll send you to Natalie's social media connection so you can go follow her work and see when those pop up. Let's shift into tools. Now that I see some of your work, I would love to hear, what are your favorite pens? Do you have favorite notebooks? Then, of course, second would be your digital tools, how you use digital tools.NT: I mentioned earlier, I got into sketch noting via the digital side. It was only through the podcast and when I ordered your book that I realized a lot of people start off on analog. I was still doing them digitally even though I knew that, 'cause I couldn't get my head around how—'cause I'd started digitally, I couldn't get my head around how you would know how everything would fit onto one page.I'd start off and then I'd make it a lot smaller and push it to one corner. I was like, "I can't do that on a piece of paper." It was on a whim that I was out trying to find some trainers, I couldn't find any. I went into this shop called The Works that we have in the UK. I think they have it in the U.S., but it's not as much of a big thing in the U.S. I don't think. It's books, stationary. It tends to have things really good discount. I got this little—I know you won't be able to see it if you're just listening, but just like a really small one. Small little sketchbook.MR: That's a square sketchbook with a hard cover and spiral binding, I guess, is the word.NT: Yeah, exactly. It's got slightly thicker than printer paper. I thought I could just start doing some little mini-ones. At the same time, I picked up some brush pens, and I started writing with the brush pens and they were absolutely brilliant. I thought actually I could start doing that.I don't think the sketchbooks got a particular name. The brush pens that I first started using are called Crawford & Black really cheap in The Works here in the UK. Then as I progressed with the paper side, I found this old sketchbook that I'd had—like I said, I've not called myself an artist. I wouldn't sit and drawing a sketchbook, but I kept holding onto this book. I think I was thinking I might use it as a scrapbook. I'd had it for years.That's very similar to the one I've just mentioned, but it's much bigger and it's also square, so it lends itself really well to Instagram post. For the actual pens, just a few months ago, Sharpie gel pens, their 0.7. Yeah. I found they're really good for doing a lot of the actual words on the sketch notes. Then Staedtler, I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that right.Staedtler brush pens. I got them in lots of different colors. I use the thick side of that to do titles. Then I'll use the Sharpie gel pen to do the actual text and little drawings. I've got a bigger pencil case, but then I've got like a tiny really thin one that keeps maybe three or four pens. I'll try and keep that tiny one and then my little sketchbook in my bag wherever I go. I've got it in my bags.MR: Rough and ready in your go-bag, which is cool.NT: Yeah.MR: That sketchbook is the one you have with you, right?NT: Exactly.MR: That's good. You mentioned the Sharpie gel pens. I've been really impressed with those as well. We have them in the States and tried them in the past and really like the ink that they've manufactured is really smooth and dark. Seems to dry pretty quickly. I've been really impressed with the, I think it's labeled the S-gel here. I don't know if that's the same there, but it's Sharpie gel.NT: Yeah, it is.MR: If you're listening and you haven't tried the Sharpie gel pens, give it a try. They of course make alcohol-based permanent markers of all kinds that you can pick up, but they will bleed through most paper unless it's thick. They do have a alcohol scent to them. That's something you consider. The gel would be scentless. I think if I'm right, the gel pens are also water resistant at least or maybe waterproof, I'm not sure.I think once it goes on the page, if it gets wet, it's not gonna wash away like say a regular felt tip marker that's not permanent. I think both those are permanent markers. That's interesting you mentioned the Staedtler brush pens. It's the two-sided, right? So, there's two ends, right?NT: Exactly. Yeah. I forgot to say that.MR: Those are nice pens. I've seen those around. I've not tried them much. I need to go to the Office supply store and load up on some new things.NT: Yeah. That's the thing with this podcast, you're just like, "Oh, I wanna try that and I wanna try that."MR: Spending your money. Spending your money.NT: Exactly.MR: Talk a little bit about your digital. You said you started with digital. You hinted at Procreate. Is that the tool that you still use? Have you found any other tools and then tell us about this Japanese stylus or have you upgraded to an Apple pencil, or what's your digital status?NT: With digital, I don't think I mentioned earlier, but a huge part of the sketch note journey for me and starting to share sketch notes was getting an iPad Pro 'cause I did find it very difficult with this stylus I had, it was a stylus that has a little plastic circle on the end.MR: Oh, I know. I had this one, yeah. I know which one you're talking about.NT: It wasn't very precise. I found it quite difficult. It was the second main COVID lockdown and had a lot of time on my hands. I was sketch noting more, but they just took quite a while and the surface was quite small in the iPad mini.My manager in my previous role nominated our team for this special award thing. We won that so we each got a 300-pound voucher to use on a variety of—you could just spend it on clothes, holidays, et cetera. I thought, "Oh, this might be my excuse to get an iPad Pro because I'd wanted one for so long.MR: Covered a good part of it, right?NT: Exactly. It was COVID and I wasn't going on holiday, I'd managed to save a little bit of money because obviously, we weren't going anywhere. That was a big part of it, but when I chatted with friends and family about, "Oh, shall I get this iPad Pro?" I made a pact with myself. If I was going to do that, then I would have to share some of the sketch notes. I made a little pack with myself to do that.It was when I started sharing the sketch notes that I think I must've started using #sketchnote and I'd click on that, and I think that's when I came across your work, Sketch Army. Obviously, I came across things like the Visual Jam, Sketch Effect, Sketch Academy, all of these things, and I was like, wow.Yeah, it's called still Procreate. Again, I thought if I'm getting the iPad Pro, I'm gonna get the proper pencil. One thing that I do use, because I don't use an Apple phone, I don't have an iPhone, but I love my iPad. I wanted somewhere of things transferring across easy. I use a combination of Evernote and Noteshelf.You can get Noteshelf only of the iPad, I think, but then Evernote you can sync it so that anything you do on Noteshelf syncs. Ofter, 'cause I use sketch notes and I don't necessarily share, but in kind of planning and productivity and so, I'll sometimes plan my day out in sketch note form. I have done that on my iPad. I want it on my phone so I've got it when I'm going around and I can't really drag the iPad around.MR: Then that syncs over. Now it's on your phone wherever you are or on your desktop I suppose, if you've got Evernote there.NT: Yeah, exactly.MR: That's a smart idea. I think there's lots of these integrations that often to get overlooked that could make the connection between, like, I like this tool but I wanna use it this way. There's likely some kind of connection or there's a way to do it, I suppose. That's pretty cool.NT: Yeah, definitely.MR: It'd be interesting to see, and I haven't explored Evernote for a long time, if Evernote's in improved their drawing tools in that you could technically draw on Evernote on the iPad. I suspect there must be an iPad app of Evernote, but I don't know what kind of drawing capabilities it has. Maybe it doesn't have very good ones and it would be more frustrating. Helpful, right?NT: I can't remember why I didn't just use Evernote as the actual tool 'cause I use Noteshelf and it syncs to Evernote. I think it's 'cause NoteShelf was like a one-off fee of maybe 10 pounds and maybe—MR: Yeah, it has a subscription.NT: Whereas Evernote has a subscription, but you can use the free version to sync.MR: Got it.NT: It does have some nice tools. I'm not sure why I haven't really used it more.MR: I know Noteshelf's really powerful. It's a tool. I think that's what I use to present from when I editing presentations.NT: Oh really?MR: Because I can move the pages around, I can present, and then the way I teach sketch noting, is I like to draw right on the presentation. The cool thing is when I'm done then I can just export that to a PDF and send it to the students and it's all bundled up. It's the thing they saw, it matches the recording if they see the recording, and it's a really convenient tool. I find Noteshelf really great.NT: That's brilliant. Yeah, it's really good.MR: I did not know that it synced with Evernote. I'm not an Evernote user, but that's really good information to know in case I run into it Evernote user, and tools are pretty helpful. I think all those note-taking tools, their tools have gotten a lot better. That's really great.NT: Definitely. When I listen to the podcast and people recommend new tools and Concepts as the sponsor, I always wanna try these things, which sometimes I just don't get the time to sit and explore. I think especially 'cause doing it analog is quite new for me. That's an avenue I'm exploring.I think one of the other reasons I started to explore analog is because Procreate had an update and the pens just became too complicated and it just wasn't working. Now I've found the right brush again on Procreate, so I'm doing a mixture. There's a nice feature where you can favorite the brush thickness, which is really, really useful.MR: I've used that too. Very useful. Now we're getting nerdy, but on the Procreate size control, if you press and hold in a certain location, you can lock it and a little mark will appear there and then you can jump from mark to mark.NT: When I come across that, I thought, this is amazing 'cause I'll have one for the headers and one for the sub-headers or even just the little doodles. It's so much easy 'cause before, I think that's why I was making some things massive, something small and I just lost track of what was meant to be what.MR: Then you're using the same brush and you're just changing the size of it. You just touch the size you want and away you go, which is nice.NT: Exactly.MR: Cool. Well, now we're at the point where we talk about tips. The way I frame it is someone's listening, they're a visual thinker of some level, whatever that might mean to them, and they're excited, they like the community, they like doing sketchnoting, but they feel maybe they're stagnating or they're in a plateau or just need a little inspiration. It's wintertime here in the north so maybe they just need a little inspiration like spring is coming, whatever, but what would be three things you would tell that person to encourage them?NT: I'm not sure if I've got four or not.MR: Or you can do more than three if you wish. That's fine.NT: I certainly thought of lots of tips. The first thing I would say in line with, I'm not saying everyone needs an iPad Pro but just investing in what you love. If you love sketch noting and it is investing and that might be in time or courses. That's really helped me is just dedicating a bit of time and sometimes money to get a really good course and it can really elevate your sketch notes to the next level.It'll just get you back into it again. Often the course is a collaborative so you meet different people as well, which is helpful and learn from others. That's one thing I would say. But then equally, as much as it's invest and improve, I wanted to say recognize what your strengths are.For some people, they might be held back because there's the comparison thing, like what we were discussing earlier and you see some sketch notes that are very visual and these amazing illustrations that I love looking at. I've had to reframe that 'cause I've had sometimes, moments of lack of confidence thinking, "Oh, mine are quite wordy. I'm never gonna be a natural illustrator."I've had to think, "Well, my strength might be more in the sense of listening to a podcast and picking out the key points. That's something that I do in my professional role as a market manager is I might have to take it an academic paper and try and present it in a nice way.That's something that I've had to think is, what are my strengths are. I would say to people focus on your strengths as well as try and improve your weaknesses 'cause everyone's sketch notes are different.MR: That's a great tip. I love that one.NT: Thank you. Another tip is to share your work. I know it's not for everyone, but if you are sometimes stuck in a rut, it can help to share your work and break that barrier. 'Cause I kept my sketch note secret for years, the ones that I did on mental health and things. Some of them that I've shared I did maybe four years ago and just didn't post, but that can really help get you work out there and get feedback. Also, if you're sharing them on social media, it helps to connect you with people.MR: I suppose you could even frame that as maybe sharing, doesn't have to be with the world, but maybe it's a small group. If there's some chat or something where you can share that work. That's considered sharing. If it's two tens of your best friends, you're still announcing to your friends and they can give you feedback.NT: Exactly, and that's actually what I did first. I just started sending them—During COVID, I'd send them in WhatsApp group chats and people are like, "Oh wow. How have you not shared these before?" It's kind of like deeping your toes in it first.MR: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You go to the friendly audience first because social media cannot always be friendly, right?NT: No, exactly. That's very true.MR: Interesting.NT: Another one is just to write down your ideas. Sometimes I find if you're out and about and you're out in nature or you're away for the weekend, I think you sometimes get inspiration for sketch notes, but if you don't write them down and I'll keep them in—I've got Google Keeps, I'll just keep a little ideas list and just throw them in there. It means that when I am sat at home with my sketchbook or some time and my iPad Pro, I can actually bring that idea to life rather than thinking, "What was that again?" That's been really helpful.MR: Some kind of reference. Some kind of a spark. That's Good.NT: Exactly. I dunno whether I'm onto fifth tip now, I'm not sure.MR: I only count them later.NT: One is just get involved with the community as well. That's a tip that I would recommend. There's been a few that I've been involved with lately, monthly hangouts and your layouts workshop. I think that's just really helpful, and again, it's learning from people. You might get tips that you've not thought of that might take 10 minutes. I think one of your previous guests, I think it was Reverend Geek, said he had a 30-day challenge where he would just sketch out a word for 30 days, but sometimes he'd get those ideas from other people and communities that you're part of.MR: We have that. If you want an easy one, Sketchnote Army has a Slack channel you can join.NT: Oh, really?MR: Yep. Every day there's someone in one of the channels who posts the prompt and you can be challenged to draw it in. They challenge you to draw it in 30 seconds or something, so it builds your thinking skills. We have that channel.Also, probably the other benefit of that channel is any kind of events that happen. Lai Chee Chui, who's one of the members, she's like a hawk. She finds every of cool event and she publishes it in the events announcements channel. You'll find out about workshops or the Visual Jam we'll post in there so you get a sense of like what's coming, which is great.NT: How brilliant. That sounds great. Yeah. I'd love to join that. Thank you.MR: If you go to sketchnotearmy.com/slack, should take you to the page and you can sign up for free. It's all free. We just—NT: Brilliant. I'm just writing that down.MR: We don't save any of the back channel 'cause we're just doing the free one, but it's more spur of the moment, the interaction between people in the community, which is pretty cool. Anybody that's listening, including Natalie are welcomed to sign up and hang out in there, there's a really cool bunch of people in there.Your public sharing could be in the Slack channel with friendly sketch noters who will give you encouragement, which we aim to have our community be an encouraging community. I think that's a good place to start if you wanted to follow that tip that Natalie just gave.NT: Brilliant.MR: I'll be sure to count up the tips and I'll give them numbers to them in the show notes. Of course, we'll have show notes for all the things we've talked about. We're near the end of the podcast. Can you believe it? Like, suddenly this time has just flown by.NT: It has.MR: I would love for you to share what's the best places to go. Are there certain social media where you hang out? Is there a website we can go to to find out all the work that you're up to?NT: The main place that I share my sketch notes is Instagram and that's @natalierobertat. I also use LinkedIn, but that's Natalie R. Taylor. I did set up an actual LinkedIn page, but I just tend to not post on that end. I don't actually post my schedule notes very much on LinkedIn, but I do use it. I set up a Twitter, but again, I've posted it a few times and not really used it a lot. So, I would say Instagram.MR: Okay. Got it. We'll make sure we put a link to that. I'm on your page now and it looks like you've got a campsite bio page with some specific things that you'd like people to check out first. That's nice that you got an extended list of things for people to dig into. That's really good and you can see her work there.Well, Natalie, this has been so much fun. Thank you for joining us on the show and sharing your experience and encouraging people. I think it's, again, another great episode that will encourage somebody out there who we can't even imagine right now who's listening to this episode and being inspired and trying something out, which is what this is all about. Thank you for making time to be here.NT: Thank you so much for having me. I've absolutely loved it and I love the idea that it could help someone, so thank you for saying that.MR: I think so. I think it definitely will help someone. I'm often surprised, I think I do these podcasts and often you don't really hear much back and that's okay, I don't do it for that reason. But occasionally I'll talk to someone and say, I've listened to every one of your episodes. It's happened like four or five times recently. All the effort that you put into it, you think like, "Is anybody listening to this?"I see people downloading it, but you don't hear anything, and then suddenly four or five people say, I listen to every episode. Like, wow, okay, well I guess we're gonna keep doing that. It's really encouraging and it's definitely gonna be encouraging to someone and many people potentially. That's really great to hear.NT: Thank you. I've absolutely loved listening to the podcast when I discovered it and it was lockdown as well, so I'll go for these long walks and I've listening to maybe two, three a day just thinking, I was like, "Wow, there's eight or nine series of this?"MR: You're like a super fan, Natalie.NT: Yeah, I am. They we're kinda packed into a certain time. I think I'm up to date now. There might be a few I've missed.MR: It's quite a back catalog. Well, thank you so much and I think for everyone who's listening, that's another episode of the "Sketch Note Army Podcast." Until the next episode, we'll see you soon.

Mike Rohde is the creator of Sketchnotes, a method of note-taking that uses a combination of handwriting, drawings, hand-lettering, shapes, and visual elements like arrows, boxes, and lines. The focus is on capturing ideas, not art, and you don't need any special drawing ability to do it. In fact, Mike has been known to issue “permission to suck at drawing” certificates, encouraging people to practice and develop at their own pace.He's a designer, author, teacher, podcaster and illustrator with a passion for not only visualizing ideas, but for teaching people how to think visually and be more creative. He's fostered a community of enthusiastic sketchnoters, known as The Sketchnote Army, who support and encourage each other online and at in-person events.Mike's bestselling book that introduced his technique to the world, The Sketchnote Handbook, just celebrated its ten year publication anniversary and it's more popular than ever! His follow-up, The Sketchnote Workbook, shows how you can use sketchnotes in your everyday life to capture ideas, plan projects, document processes, and capture memorable experiences.On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Mike about how he developed his sketchnoting approach for note-taking, the benefit of adding constraints to his process, why the approach is about capturing ideas, not art, and how he fostered the development of a global community of sketchnoters. Say hi to Mike:  Website - rohdesign.com  Instagram - @rohdesign   Twitter - @rohdesign  Mastodon - @rohdesign   Sketchnote Army website - sketchnotearmy.com   Sketchnote Army podcast - sketchnotearmy.com/podcast ----Creative Pulse Podcast socials:  Instagram:  creativepulsepodcast  Twitter  @CreativePulseTWMusic credit: https://www.purple-planet.com

He's been a frequent guest not only on this podcast, but every podcast I've done in the past. This one is extra special because it's the 10th anniversary of the Sketchnote Handbook!Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher, and author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, co-creator of The Sketchnote Ideabook, founder of Sketchnote Army, and Illustrator of REWORK, REMOTE, and The $100 Startup. In this episode, we have a delightful conversation talking about everything Sketchnote and allude to some of Mike's other successes over the past decade. We chat about where the Sketchnoting community has gone, what's happened with him, what he expected, what surprised him, and all things in between. This episode was originally released as a live stream for Premium members of TimeCrafting Trust. Want to take partake in future live streams and much more? Sign up here!Links Worth Exploring Connect with Mike: Website | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Flickr Get The Sketchnote Handbook Get half-off two books with the code: HAPPY10  The Daily Plan Bar See all of Mike's Sketchnote products Check out Sketchnote Workshops here Related Conversation: The Bullet Journal Method with Ryder Carroll Related Blog Post: Why Paper Works Thanks to all of the sponsors of this episode. You can find all of the sponsors you heard me mention on this episode on our Podcast Sponsors page.Want to support the podcast? Beyond checking out our sponsors, you can subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Click on any of the links below to make that happen.Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | StitcherYou can also click on this link to paste the podcast feed into your podcast app of choice.Thanks again for listening to A Productive Conversation. See you later.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

He's been a frequent guest not only on this podcast, but every podcast I've done in the past. This one is extra special because it's the 10th anniversary of the Sketchnote Handbook! Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher, and author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, co-creator of The Sketchnote Ideabook, founder of Sketchnote Army, and Illustrator of REWORK, REMOTE, and The $100 Startup.  In this episode, we have a delightful conversation talking about everything Sketchnote and allude to some of Mike's other successes over the past decade. We chat about where the Sketchnoting community has gone, what's happened with him, what he expected, what surprised him, and all things in between.  This episode was originally released as a live stream for Premium members of TimeCrafting Trust. Want to take partake in future live streams and much more? Sign up here! Links Worth Exploring Connect with Mike: Website | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn | Flickr Get The Sketchnote Handbook Get half-off two books with the code: HAPPY10  The Daily Plan Bar See all of Mike's Sketchnote products Check out Sketchnote Workshops here Related Conversation: The Bullet Journal Method with Ryder Carroll Related Blog Post: Why Paper Works Thanks to all of the sponsors of this episode. You can find all of the sponsors you heard me mention on this episode on our Podcast Sponsors page. Want to support the podcast? Beyond checking out our sponsors, you can subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts. Click on any of the links below to make that happen. Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher You can also click on this link to paste the podcast feed into your podcast app of choice. Thanks again for listening to A Productive Conversation. See you later.

Welcome to a special edition of the Sketchnote Army Podcast in which we honor the life of visual thinking pioneer: Andy de Vale.Andy, along with Robb Lockwood, Clare Mills, and Lucy Burns are the team that created ScotViz.Andy tragically and suddenly passed away in July of 2022. On August 18th, 2022, ScotViz held a memorial meetup with the blessing of his family — where those whose lives were touched by Andy could tell their stories of him as a remembrance.This podcast is a collection of those same stories, edited together, as a way the Sketchnote Army and our podcast can honor Andy's impactful life in the world and in the visual thinking community.May Andy's impact live on our lives as we go forward.LinksWorkVisibleScotVizScotViz: Remembering AndyMemories from friends and colleagues:Robb LockwoodFrank WesselerMike RohdeLucy BurnsFeel no guilt in laughter, he'd know how much you care.Feel no sorrow in a smile that he is not here to share.You cannot grieve forever; he would not want you to.He'd hope that you could carry on the way you always do.So, talk about the good times and the way you showed you cared,The days you spent together, all the happiness you shared.Let memories surround you, a word someone may sayWill suddenly recapture a time, an hour, a day,That brings him back as clearly as though he were still here,And fills you with the feeling that he is always near.For if you keep those moments, you will never be apartAnd he will live forever locked safely within your heart.Holger Nils PaulFrankie BianchiRay EdgarGemma JonesScottJim in New ZealandChristian HarmsenSandra BachBenjamin FelisJose CasalElena UrizarKevin AustinKristian RønneThe sailboatI'm standing on the beach an early summer morningI see how a sailboat spreads out its sails and heads out to seaI follow the boat until it disappears over the horizon Someone besides me says, now its goneI answer, gone, noIt is just us that have lost sight of it
The boat is still there beyond the horizonIn the same moment we say: now its goneOther voices take over and sayLook… there it is, its coming-UnkownMolly NorthcoteSusanne Krogh-HansenJeanette IronsDario PaniaguaJason AndrewsSamantha CarpenterClare Mills

Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher, and illustrator — but you're more likely familiar with his work in sketchnoting. Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook, which popularized the practice, and the founder of the Sketchnote Army, a showcase of sketchnoters and their work. He's been described as “one of the leaders of the visual thinking revolution.” In this conversation, we discuss how Mike's approach to visual note-taking has influenced his work.Show notesMike Rohderohdesign.comThe Rohdesign Dispatch (Mike's newsletter)Mike Rohde on LinkedIn@rohdesign on Instagram@rohdesign on TwitterThe Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking by Mike RohdeThe Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced Techniques for Taking Visual Notes You Can Use Anywhere by Mike RohdeThe Sketchnote ArmyThe Sketchnote Army podcastAdobe PageMillLiminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think by Dave GrayBullet JournalRyder CarrollUlyssesMarkdownZettelkastenThe Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking by Pam A. Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer (PDF)Show notes include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links.

Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher and illustrator with a passion for visualizing ideas and teaching people how to think visually and be more creative.INTERESTED IN TAKING VISUAL NOTES?Buy the best selling Sketchnote Handbook and learn how to incorporate sketch noting techniques into your note-taking process regardless of your artistic abilities - https://rohdesign.com/handbookCONNECT WITH MIKE ROHDEYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeRohde Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rohdesign/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/rohdesign LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerohde/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

MIKE ROHDE   Hello, I’m Mike Rohde.   I have a passion for visualizing, designing, and communicating ideas.   Designer. I design software, experiences, and services, using a human-centered approach. I seek to understand what users need, so I can design things that are useful and delightful for them. Author. I’ve written two bestselling books on sketchnoting: The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook. Teacher. I lead online and in-person workshops that teach people sketchnoting techniques and build their confidence. Speaker. I give talks on the power and value of visualization. Illustrator. I help authors communicate ideas visually in their books. My work appears in the New York Times bestseller, REWORK and REMOTE, The $100 Startup and The Little Book of Talent. I like to communicate ideas through custom illustrations. Publisher. I’m founder of The Sketchnote Army, a showcase of sketchnoters and their work from around the world. Podcaster. I interview interesting visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick on the Sketchnote Army Podcast. Family man. I’m a husband and father, happily living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Follow me on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.     SUPPORT THE PODCAST   This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp online course. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession.   With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness.   Find more information at https://www.udemy.com/course/visual-thinking-and-sketchnoting-boot-camp/?referralCode=D0574A03FF3E6CADC63F   Subscribe to Yuri's newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gWi_if

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Today I'm joined by my friend MJ Broadbent. As a graphic facilitator and recorder, MJ uses visual thinking to help people communicate more effectively. In this episode, we talk about how drawing can help folks understand each other and make everyday life more joyful. Listen to the full conversation https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/the-informed-life-episode-16-mj-broadbent.mp3 Show notes MJ Broadbent MJ Broadbent on Twitter MJ Broadbent on Instagram MJ Broadbent on Flickr MJ Broadbent on LinkedIn Mike Rohde Sketchnote Army blog Rosenfeld Media events Enterprise Experience conference DesignOps Summit Pictionary IPEVO document cameras Landau Chartworks Franklin Planners Bullet Journal MJ's Stanford Continuing Studies course Read the full transcript Jorge: MJ, welcome to the show. MJ: Hi Jorge. Thank you for inviting me. Jorge: Oh, thank you for being here. It's good to have you here. Why don't you tell us about yourself? MJ: Wow, that's always an interesting question. I'm an emergent designer. I've studied graphic design, and my career and my way of forging through life has just been completely emergent. I really love to use visual explanations and I think the common overarching theme in terms of the work that I do and have done and looking at doing as I continue is, is connecting people with information in whatever manner that may be. It was originally traditional graphic design and then it became digital space and the nonlinear experience that were websites and apps and software. And then it became how do people… What kind of information do they need when they're being bombarded with information? And so I began to do graphic recording and sketchnoting and so forth and teaching people that really we can do that kind of visual sense-making on our own and with other people by reclaiming our innate human capability of drawing things, of making marks, just the way we write letters, we can write other symbolic language that demonstrate what it is that we're thinking and hearing. Jorge: I've known you for a while now and we've interacted in professional contexts where you've worked in large corporations and we've also interacted in things like conference spaces. And my picture of you in conference spaces has you seated at the back of the room when someone is presenting, capturing the presentation in beautiful — what I guess what are, they're called sketchnotes — but these kind of visual representations of what the speaker is talking about. And it's a mix of like words and pictures, right? MJ: Mm-hmm (affirmative). It's right. Jorge: Is that what you mean by graphic recording? MJ: It is. The term graphic recording in the professional community of practice is generally understood to be someone who is scribing or writing in real time. Graphic recording is thought of as the large scale poster sized or you know, big boards, white boards or large format paper that might be on the wall or on a whiteboard or something that's visible to the participants in a meeting or in a conference room. And the actions are very similar with sketchnoting, which is a term coined by the wonderful designer Mike Rohde, who runs a blog called the Sketchnote Army. And it's just become hugely popular in the recent period of time — I would say, well, a decade or more — as a form of visual expression concurrent with the idea and the cognitive science that when we as human beings make marks on paper, most people have greater recall of the content, whether they're making meaningful marks, that represent content that's coming into their ears and their consciousness or whether they're making abstract marks like crosshatching them in the margin. For me, I am able — I've curated — an ability to listen and choose what it is that I would want to write down to capture what I'm hearing. It's a very personal curation that one does one listening and scribing because it's very different from a court reporter or somebody who's capturing or any kind of true recording where you're capturing all of the fidelity. How we're recording right now is capturing everything and we could get a transcript and that would include everything we say. Graphic recording and sketchnoting by nature of the fact that you're using your hand, you can't possibly write it all. So you have to choose. And I tell people the way that I choose is really same way we think about what level of content fidelity we need in order to communicate. To whom? Am I making this for myself? Am I making this for other people? What is the communication act that I want to achieve through this? So I'm intentional. Sketchnoting conferences — and I've had the good fortune to do sketchnoting for Lou Rosenfeld's events, Enterprise UX, which recently became Enterprise Experience, and the DesignOps conference as part of the support team. So I'm listening and I'm drawing the taste, like kind of the tip of the iceberg. Kind of key moments. Some of it is coming from the slides. Some of it is those interesting fun voiceovers that the speaker has or something that's happening in the conversation that might not otherwise be caught, a key quote or a joke. And sometimes they are words and sometimes they're visuals. And what's nice is for these conferences, there's a body of work that people can look back on — people who were there can look back on and say, “Oh yeah, I remember those key points.” Or, ” Which talk was it that I heard that theme or that particular concept?” And they can look back and quickly see where that was. They can also look at the arc of the whole thing over a period, you know, a set of, I think there's ten pages for a two day conference and say, ” Where do I want to highlight?” Or maybe a trip review, if I'm going back and talking about my experience of the conference, I can say, ” here's a talk.” It's a visual people could use for their teams, just to summarize what it is that was there and add their own thoughts. And then for people who were not able to attend a conference, they can look at what generally went on there very quickly and perhaps make a determination about where they want to invest time in looking at the videos that are available after the fact. That's a key piece of information management, to the main theme of your work and your podcast. That I think, my gosh, so much information is flowing at us. How in the world do we decide where to go back when we missed something? We have… I know I have tons of intention. I've tons of email that I've marked, I've flagged and I need to pay attention to and it's really hard to go back in time if you don't catch something in the moment and take care of it just then, it becomes more effort to go back. So I find that the sketchnoting is tremendous for that purpose. Being able to very quickly visually summarize or assess something. Jorge: I'm thinking that folks might be wondering if it's faster to draw than it is to write. MJ: That's a great question. And the way that I think about it, I started to allude to it earlier. I teach basic drawing or drawing skills for those who say, “They can't draw.” And I do this in a variety of ways. I've done it in a lot of workshops and conferences and it's part of a design thinking curriculum that I'm currently facilitating inside of enterprise. If anybody's ever played the game Pictionary — most people have had some experience with it — it's basically visual charades, very, very simple based on a word or phrase. And the way you win is that have to represent that object or that concept as quickly as possible. And this is the underlying principle in the drawing. Drawing it… By drawing, I mean the act of, of putting a stylus or a pen to a surface, you know, whether it's digital or it's analog. You're making marks, and those marks need to have a meaning. If you're not skilled at quickly drawing a horse and you can much more quickly write the word horse, and you're in a time situation, you're gonna write the word horse. What happens with people who can draw imagery or iconography or any kind of other symbolic representation is that they've developed the ability to make that thing, that representation, really quickly. Where they might say, “I'm going to come back in the break and add a couple of things in.” And generally there's a little bit of finishing work that will happen maybe in the five, ten, fifteen minutes afterwards. You can do some couple of embellishments and kind of finish it up. Letters are visual symbols that form words that form sentences, that form paragraphs. And we can do that similar thing with other kinds of verbal representational language, visual language. Jorge: I know that you do this for conferences and I believe that you also do it for meetings and let's say… a presentation in a conference is a structured argument, right? MJ: Right. Jorge: And one of the keys I think to this type of work, if it's going to serve the filtering or summarization purpose that you brought up earlier, one of the keys to it is bringing out the right visual hierarchy so that the main points somehow draw your attention. And can you talk a little bit about the differences of doing this in a more structured setting such as a conference versus a less structured setting? MJ: Absolutely. That's a great one, and I think you articulated it very well. In fact, at conferences we've all experienced — those of us who've attended any conference — have experienced that some speakers have highly structured, “here's how I'm going to tell you three things or six things.” Or they have really clear visual aids that help mark those chapters or themes or key points. Others are very good at storytelling and some speakers will use no visuals at all and they're really just creating a story arc that we don't know how planned it is or how extemporaneous it is. So it can vary quite a bit even in a structured setting such as a conference. When people are having less structured conversation — and I do support executive briefings, for example at several corporations — and so there are big decision makers exchanging information and time is very valuable, so it can easily go from a structured, “here's our capabilities” to “let's talk about how that serves your particular need” you know, customer, who's a visiting customer. And so I will typically go to a different format where I'm wanting to capture key aspects of the back and forth. And I'll just use two different colors and I will tend to use less imagery. So it presents more like a dialogue. And you can see by the color which party is speaking. So it becomes more like the Q&A that you would see at the bottom of anything. You know, the letter Q and the letter A are there, so you can distinguish which, or an interview transcript, that kind of thing. And so I'm not capturing everything that's there, but at least there's a record of the nature of the conversation and particularly if there's excitement about something that relates back to a theme or capability that's been discussed before. I can link that, I can visually link that on the chart, the chart being what we call the drawing itself, the physical artifact. So it can be challenging and especially if you don't… Managing space when you don't know how long or how deep something's going to go. When I'm doing graphic recording on large format, it's much more freeing because we'll start the day, the start the meeting with a pretty large piece of paper. And if you don't use it all, you can trim it. I'm working on a smaller format in sketchnoting, which is typically a personal size of notebook of some kind , it's either in your lap or it's on a table in front of you or on a workspace that's right in front of you so that people around you can see it. But generally the whole of the room or the audience does not see it until after, until you publish it. So that's another distinction about the size. Graphic recording — the large scale version — can be very valuable for meetings and conferences because people see that it's happening and they can watch in meetings, they can see that they're being heard and that, that they're being paid attention to. And it can change the dynamic of the conversation. They become more focused often, and they feel cared for in a way. There's somebody taking this, this step, this action and that there will be an artifact afterward. So a lot of just times we're in rooms where people are doing a lot of talking and maybe someone's taking notes. Mostly people are looking at what do we need to do coming out of this meeting? And then maybe capturing action items, but the capturing the content or the key aspects of what's being discussed, is something that I think we can do more of. Jorge: You've been talking about paper and notebooks and that brings up another question that I had about your process, which has to do with the mechanics of the actual drawing. I assume that you are drawing on paper as opposed to digitally, right? MJ: Presently I continue to really love the pen on paper, whatever scale is, and I have a lot of different pens, love them all. There's a trend right now and lately with the greater software and app capability to do this on tablets and people… It's just more portable. And I have not fully embraced it yet. I think I have a mental block about working on a screen. We spend so much time with screens. But there are folks who are doing it and I'm excited to continue exploring it because it's just, it's a different way of working. I did recently get an overhead camera. There are many makers, the one I happened to get was IPEVO. And it allows me to connect the camera to my computer and demonstrate to somebody who's not next to me or to a group of people, I can draw analog and it's projected basically onto the screen, large or small. I'm pretty excited about that because it's a little bit of a work around in terms of how do I get to show my work or demonstrate something in action when the human beings are distributed. Jorge: As for the “final deliverable,” to, say, your clients or when the conference has finished, for example, do you photograph the drawings and share them that way? Or how do they make their way from the paper world to the digital world? MJ: That's a great question. Typically for sketchnotes, I will photograph them initially so that I can put them on social media and publish them quickly. So they go out to attendees in Slack or on Twitter or on Facebook or anywhere. And then what I will do for the final deliverable to make PDFs, or in the case of Rosenfeld, they put PDFs on the website next to each of the speakers in the program. So they're stuck there… And they are not stuck there, but they're published there. And before that I will do high resolution scans and make sure that the lighting is even, and the colors are even and so forth. And it's a quick flatbed scan and don't spend a lot of time doing, you know, photoshopping or anything. But just a quick, quick scan. And then same thing goes for the big paper versions. There's a specialty shop that does very large format scanning and digital posts. And then you can have an image, a jpeg or a pdf. And those go to the client and the paper original goes back to wherever it would best serve the folks who generated the content. Jorge: That's great. I wasn't aware of the large format scanning piece of these. That's good to know. MJ: Kind of tremendous. There's a firm, happens to be local to us here in the bay, but they do work for people all over the world, and nice, really great folks. It's Landau Chartworks. Jorge: So I'm wondering how, if any, this way of working influences the way that you manage your own information. So things like commitments to yourself and others. I would expect that like taking notes for your own purpose, like this would play into it, but beyond that, how has it changed the way that you manage your own information? MJ: Oh my goodness, this is… That's a huge topic. Yes. It… Where do I go first? I make visual lists. I do when I sit down and I want to think about something. Last year I did a kind of a, “let me look back on the arc of the different ways I've been a professional in the world.” And I took a big piece of paper and I started thinking about how to organize it. So I did… This was not a straight up graphic design and visual communication, how might I make a PowerPoint slide type of a, an inquiry, a visual inquiry. It was a more organic, “what do I notice about the cycles and themes of the way that I've been making visual sense of things?” So ways that I use drawing and sketchnoting and basically words and pictures in my everyday life to… One of the ways I enjoy using it most is making little notes, little post it notes. And that can be for myself or for my domestic partner or, you know, on something in the refrigerator or on a food item that I have put in a bowl for a gift. You know, I make some interesting lettering, get some cool pens. Recently I got some new black jeans and you have to watch out when you wash them. You don't put light-colored things in there because you know, the dye will leach. And so I made a note to make sure to use cold water and I made the big blue cold with the waves underneath, like kind of just as a reminder. So I'm… That's kind of fun. And then also a really cool way is on a little simple calendar or paper calendars on the refrigerator. And sometimes I'll put a little drawing of something that happened that day. The way people make journals. Yeah. Maybe it was the weather or something you ate. Just drawing simple little icons, or you know, I keep colored pens around the house. We have cups of pens everywhere and so that's keeping it fun. And it's always nice when somebody else is involved. They enjoy it. It's like how we used to be about getting paper mail, getting a letter in the mail. And then, I think the other part is, in terms of how I manage my life, I can't have a conversation with people in, in person, often cannot have a conversation without drawing something. So I keep, I keep pens in my bags and I want to make sure that I have the ability to (unintelligible) and sketch something out, the napkin sketch type of thing. When I was working at GE Digital, I really would just walk around with my laptop and a pad of paper or some stack of printer paper and I'm just drawing things and talking about. Show what I mean or listen to other people and say, “Is this what you mean?” And get into a conversation with them about it. Jorge: You know there was a while back — many, many moons ago as they say — I used to use the a Franklin Planner… MJ: Yes. Jorge: … to keep track of things like meetings and to do's and stuff like that. And there was this kind of tactile pleasure to using this thing. And it was a big bulky thing that I had to drag around in my bag, but I remember that I spent perhaps too much time looking into things like page templates for that thing and being very mindful about where certain things went. Like I would keep track of to do's in one section of the thing and appointments in another. So digital has completely taken over from things like the Franklin Planner, but there's been an interesting phenomenon. Over the past, I would say five years or so, I've noticed that there's been a resurgence in folks keeping track of things and I'm thinking of things like the bullet, um, I think it's called The Bullet Journal? MJ: Yes. Jorge: Where folks have rediscovered the pleasures — the tactile pleasures — of keeping track of this sort of information in an analog format. And when I hear you talk about the various pens that you use when you talked about like, “Well, you know, I did the blue pen the word cool, and I did the little wave,” like to me, that speaks of this… This tangible aspect to drawing with pen and paper, which digital just cannot capture. Yet, at least. I'm wondering if you have thoughts on that or if you can tell us about the pens that you — because you've talked several times about the pens and how much you like the pens… MJ: Oh my gosh. Well, yes, but here's the thing. I'm gonna make an analogy to our ability, the way that we navigate ourselves literally through space, and we use Apple Maps or Google Maps, or when do we need to go from point a to point b, we say, “Please, please computer, tell me how to go.” And then we follow those directions. And then we have no, literally no memory other than maybe the physical experience of, of going through space and maybe whatever you noticed along the way. If you have good visual recall, you might say, “Oh yeah, I remember passing this street and that street,” because you saw the sign. But you could not recreate that because it wasn't memorable, and you didn't … The amount of control that you had, was a little more passive than if you had to look, consult a paper map and create a turn list or create some kind of notes to yourself as you would drive or navigate or walk to the place. And so what we're talking about is a kind of, it's not stickiness in terms of attention, but it's stickiness in terms of memory. And so when you make — this is back to my earlier point of when you physically make marks — and you're being intentional about it, you're saying, “I'm, you know, I want to put this or that onto the surface, the paper, or the tablet or the…” And that's where it gets blurry in the digital space. If you're drawing on a tablet, and you're choosing the thickness and the color and the scale and the hierarchy and you're creating something there, I think that still is just as good, just as meaningful, as if you're doing it on paper because you're in charge, and you're putting it there. What we're talking about is, what's going on for you behaviorally and cognitively with this act? How is it affecting your interpersonal relationships? If it's involving other people, which typically it would be… Well, it doesn't matter. It can be with yourself. If I sit down with a piece of paper, and I want to make sense of something for myself, I tell people, this is one of the things that goes on in my workshops, you're going to have a different relationship with your ideas and with your thinking if you externalize it onto the paper, than if you keep it in your head. I'm not saying it's better, it's just different. I mean it can be better. I think it's better, but it's not, it's not a judgment call. And then if you're going to have a conversation with somebody else, or you're in a conversation, and you're not sure or you want to be sure that you are communicating effectively, drawing anything, drawing scratchy marks and a couple of labels or if it's a model, or it's a plan… Well it could be any subjects. It's going to be easier for you to have accord with the person, agreement. And both of you come away from it, or the multiple of you go, come away from it with a shared understanding. I don't think you know about this, but I'm excited to be taking these concepts into a new course that's going to be offered at Stanford Continuing Studies this fall. And it's taking the need for collaboration — for effective collaboration — that is, that takes people in meetings or in rooms or in conversations and they're speaking words , to make it tangible. To use this very simple, Pictionary-like visual language, which in the course description we're calling Simple Sketching, and to use them in facilitating group communication. So this is going to be six sessions on Wednesday evenings starting September 25th. And we're going to look at how do you do that? How can you listen and draw and engage and make people focus in a way that gives them much more satisfaction and much more traction and allows people to see, who we're not there to see what happened. It allows people who were there to have a common frame of reference and empowers everybody to be doing happier, more focused work. Jorge: That's fantastic. Congratulations. MJ: Thank you. Jorge: And it's also a great summary of what we've been talking about thus far. So I think that's a good place to wrap up our conversation. So, where can folks find out more about you? MJ: I can be found on almost every social media platform at, @mjbroadbent. So I'm on Twitter, on Instagram, on Flickr, and my domain is mjbroadbent.com. I'll be putting information about the upcoming course and some other meetups that I'm supporting into these places. Jorge: Fantastic. Well, thank you so much. It's been a pleasure talking with you. MJ: Thank you, Jorge, for your excellent work around information, which is critical.

In this iPad-focused episode, Michael Clayton, Rob Dimeo, Mauro Tosseli and Steve Silbert join Mike Rohde to discuss all things iPad Pro including the recent Apple announcements at WWDC. If you are on the fence about an iPad or iPad Pro, or aren’t sure which to buy for sketchnoting, this is the episode for you! RUNNING ORDER * Intro * Rohde & Clayton talk about recent Apple announcements and new iPad options * Panel introductions * iPad hardware * Apple Pencil 2 - double-tapping and slippery feel * iPad sketchnoting software * Accessories LINKS * Michael Clayton - https://mobile.twitter.com/ProfClayton * Rob Dimeo - https://mobile.twitter.com/Rob_Dimeo * Steve Silbert - https://twitter.com/SteveSilbert * Mauro Tosseli - https://mobile.twitter.com/xLontrax * iPad Air - https://www.apple.com/ipad-air/ * iPad mini - https://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/ * iPadOS - https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/ * iPad 9.7 - https://www.apple.com/ipad-9.7/ * iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ * Apple Pencil 2 - https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ * Logitech Crayon - https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/grab-a-crayon * Logitech Slim Folio Case - https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/slim-folio-ipad-keyboard-case * Procreate - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id425073498 * Paper by WeTransfer (formerly FiftyThree) - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id506003812 * Sketchbook Pro - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id883738213 * Tawe - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id993448214 * Samsung Galaxy Note Pro - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_Pro_12.2 * Adobe Illustrator Draw - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id911156590 * Astropad Standard - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id934510730 * Astropad studio - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1181582576 * Workvisual - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id988018129 * Holger Nils Pohl - https://mobile.twitter.com/holgernilspohl * Flipaclip - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1101848914 * Noteshelf - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1271086060 * Concepts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id560586497 * Liquid Text - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id922765270 * Unibal Signo - https://uniballco.com/brand/signo/ * Illumashield Matte Screen Cover 9.7” iPad Pro - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BTDEZBQ/ * iCarez Matte Screen Cover 11” iPad Pro - https://www.amazon.com/iCarez-Updated-Anti-Glare-Protector-Compatible/dp/B07GZMMYHT/ * USB C to HDMI VGA Audio Adapter by AOKEN - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LCZW5K2/ * USB C to Audio Adaptor - https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Adapter-Converter-Support-Control/dp/B07BGXS2M2/ * BelKin Stage Pro app - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id714477455 * Belkin Tablet Stage Stand (B2B054) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CF7M7RA * Siig Full Motion Easy, Adjust Universal Tablet, Desk Mount (CE-MT1X12-S1) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YT6QZSC/ * Diana Meier-Soriat - https://mobile.twitter.com/DianaSoriat * Apple Smart Folio - https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MRXE2/smart-folio-for-129-inch-ipad-pro-3rd-generation-white * Apple Smart Keyboard - https://www.apple.com/smart-keyboard/ CREDITS * Producer: Jon Schiedermayer * Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS * Season 1 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 * Season 2 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 * Season 3 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 * Season 4 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 * Season 5 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

Zhi Lee is an Agile coach from New Zealand who discovered sketchnoting a few years ago but the idea took a while before he finally jumped in. Now he uses visual thinking and sketchnoting in his agile work to help teams communicate. RUNNING ORDER * Intro * How Zhi got into sketchnoting * What is Agile? * Visual thinking in Agile * Zhi’s future with Sketchnoting, visual thinking and Agile * Tools * 3 Tips * Outro - how to connect with Zhi 3 TIPS * Don’t worry if you can’t draw * Always bring a sketchbook to a meeting * Try a brush pen LINKS * Zhi’s LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/zhilee/ * Zhi’s Twitter - https://twitter.com/__zhi * Zhi on Sketchnote Army - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/8/17/1565mtvzwbng5baxlg1cslmha8o1x0 * Ben Crothers - https://www.bencrothers.com/ * Zhi’s Agile company - https://teamworx.co.nz/ * Martin Ruckert - https://visualwow.team/ * LEGO Serious Play - https://www.lego.com/en-us/seriousplay * Visual Coach Handbook - https://leanpub.com/visualcoachhandbook/ * Neuland Markers - https://eu.neuland.com/ * Neuland FineOnes - https://eu.neuland.com/markers-more/neuland-markers/neuland-fineone-art-brush-nib-0.5-5-mm-single-colours.html * Neuland Sketchnotes - https://eu.neuland.com/markers-more/neuland-markers/sketchone-single-marker.html * Uni Chalk Markers - https://www.amazon.com/Uni-posca-Paint-Marker-Pen-PC-5M15C/dp/B001ANVDMU * Das Sketchpad - https://www.officemax.co.nz/Art-Supplies/Drawing-Sketching/Drawing-Paper/Das-Sketch-Pad-Perforated-Saddleback-A3-110gsm-20-Leaves-2878879 * Matt Magain - graphicgear.com.au CREDITS * Producer: Jon Schiedermayer * Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS * Season 1 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 * Season 2 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 * Season 3 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 * Season 4 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 * Season 5 * https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

How many roles do you have? Well, it's probably fewer than today's guest Sherrill Knezel, sketchnoter, artist, educator, graphic recorder, and illustrator. She joins Mike to discuss the different aspects of her visual work with particular emphasis on education. Plus, the usual three tips and tools. RUNNING ORDER Intro Sherrill's origin story Sketchnoting in education The reaction of other teachers Graphic recording The future of sketchnoting? TOOLS Pilot G2 0.7 - http://pilotpen.us/brands/g2/ Micron .08 - https://www.pigmamicron.com/varieties/ Sketch for schools - http://sketchforschools.com Neuland Markers - https://us.neuland.com iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ Paper by WeTransfer (formerly 53) - https://paper.bywetransfer.com Procreate - https://procreate.art LINKS Sherrill's Website - http://www.meaningfulmarks.net Sherrill's Twitter - https://twitter.com/sherrillknezel Sherrill's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/knezelsh/ Kid president - http://kidpresident.com Story Corps NPR - https://www.npr.org/series/4516989/storycorps Graphic recording - https://visualfacilitators.com/en/visualization/graphic-recording/ IFVP - https://ifvp.org Beautiful Oopp - https://www.workman.com/brands/beautiful-oops 3 TIPS Set down fear Be okay with mistakes Find community CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

Today, Mike is joined by Nick Sousanis, Assistant professor of Humanities & Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is runs a Comics Studies program. While at Columbia university, he wrote and drew his dissertation entirely in comic book form, which became the book Unflattening. He's an advocate for using visuals in education. RUNNING ORDER Intro Nick's Comic-based Dissertation Drawing isn't just for the professionals Unflattening book Comic studies Visuals and metaphors across languages Tools 3 Tips Nick's next book LINKS Nick's website - http://spinweaveandcut.com/ Nick's Twitter - https://twitter.com/nsousanis Nick's Book, Unflattering - http://spinweaveandcut.com/unflattening/ Unflattening on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Unflattening-Nick-Sousanis/dp/0674744438/ San Fransisco State University - https://www.sfsu.edu/ Grids and gestures - http://spinweaveandcut.com/grids-and-gestures/ Linda Barry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda_Barry TOOLS Newsprint paper - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsprint Wacom Intuos - https://www.wacom.com/en-in/products/pen-tablets/intuos Cintiq - https://www.wacom.com/en-in/products/pen-displays/wacom-cintiq iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ Pilot Precise Rollerball v7 - http://pilotpen.us/brands/precise/precise-v5-v7/ 3 TIPS Lines, marks & gestures You can draw even if you don't think you can Don't worry about ideas, just draw stuff. CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

Today's episode was recorded live at the International Sketchnote Camp 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. Between airplane flyovers, Mike talks with visual career coach Conni about how she has adapted sketchnotes and visual thinking to help coach her clients at Frau und Beruf. RUNNING ORDER Intro Conni's background Integrating sketchnoting and coaching Sketchnotes for planning job options and exploring resources (middle) Sketchnotes for generating ideas Sketchnotes for decision making (quadrant system) Sketchnotes for storytelling (and the career storyline) Sketchnotes as a record (end) The impact of sketchnnotes on Connie's work and on the clients 3 Tips Tools LINKS Conni's website - http://Eybisch-klimpel.de Conni's presentation at ISC18LX - http://eybisch-klimpel.de/?p=366 Conni on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thevisualcoach Conni Instagram - https://twitter.com/connieybisch Conni's work - http://frauundberuf-berlin.de Career coaching - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_counseling Quadrant Analysis - http://meetingsift.com/quadrant-analysis/ Kanban board - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board VizThink meetup (Berlin) - http://vizthink.de Tools Sticky notes - https://www.staples.com/sticky+notes/directory_sticky+notes Letter size paper / A4 paper - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size) Felt pen: Stablio 68 - https://www.stabilo.com/com/products/coloring-drawing/coloring-felt-tip-pens/stabilo-pen-68/ CamScanner app - https://www.camscanner.com 3 Tips "Waste paper" Christoph Neimann Be playful Copy and remix CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

Another episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast from the International Sketchnote Camp 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. This time Mike is joined by Laurens Bonnema, an agile management consultant from Daudref in the Netherlands. Laurens shares a preview of his talk from the International Sketchnote camp. Learn to charge what you're worth! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote workshop. A full-day hands-on training that expands your teams creative thinking. Mike Rohde, the creator of Sketchnoting, will guide your team through practical activities to expand their creativity. Find out more at Sketchnoteworkshop.com SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 RUNNING ORDER Intro Who is Laurens? Learning the hard way Setting a day rate that was still too low Double your rate and a ludicrous amount The sport of sales Value based pricing Clients who ask more, delivering more Referring poor fit clients You are not an expense, you provide value” Questions when assessing clients Culture and pricing 3 tips Tools Outro THREE TIPS Stop quoting a price don't ask for a budget demand a conversation regarding client fit and value TOOLS Leuchttrum 1917 notebooks - https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebooks/ Pigma Micron (0.3 and 1mm) - https://www.pigmamicron.com Neuland fine ones (brand colour) - https://eu.neuland.com/markers-more/neuland-markers/neuland-fineone-fineliner-0.8-mm-single-colours.html iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-pro Concepts - https://concepts.app/en/ Adobe Illustrator - https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html Workvisual - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workvisual-app/id988018129?mt=8 LINKS Laurens' website - https://bonnema.ink Laurens' Twitter - https://twitter.com/laurensbonnema Agile management - https://www.apm.org.uk/resources/find-a-resource/agile-project-management/ Xebia Training - https://training.xebia.com/trainers/laurens-bonnema Chris Drucker of YOUprener - https://www.chrisducker.com Value based pricing - https://seanwes.com/price-with-confidence/ Sean McCabe - https://seanwes.com Calculated Industries 8120 Plug Mark Drywall Electrical Box Cutout Locator - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G35J0SS/ Scarcity Mindset - https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/science-choice/201504/the-scarcity-mindset Haggling - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargaining CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

Today Mike is joined by visual communicator Emily Mills, an illustrator, designer, sketchnoter, and author. They talk about her journey creating her first book, The Art of Visual Notetaking and Sketchnote Academy. Listen in! RUNNING ORDER Intro: Emily's origin story The move to teaching Writing "The Art of Visual Notetaking" Sketchnote Academy 3 Tips 3 TIPS Share your work and document practice everyday Find community LINKS Emily Mills on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/emily_a_mills/ Emily Mills on Twitter - https://twitter.com/emily_a_mills Emily's Season 3 appearance on the Sketchnote Army - https://m.soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/emily-carlton-se03-ep02 The Sketch Effect - https://thesketcheffect.com Sketchnote Academy - https://sketchnoteacademy.com The Art of Visual Notetaking - http://theartofvisualnotetaking.com Tribe Conference - https://tribeconference.com Sketchnote Army Slack - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/9/7/sketchnote-army-group-slack-channel CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

In this first episode of season 6, Mike talks with UX designer and sketchnoter Chris Spalton from England about his entry into sketchnoting and how he's using sketchnotes, comics, and other visualizations in his work in user experience. We also talk about Chris' labor of love graphic novel, The Eelman Chronicles. RUNNING ORDER Intro - Chris's sketchnote origin story Chris's path to UX design storytelling, Comic books and Story boards in business The story of Eelman Tools 3 Tips Outro 3 TIPS Share as early as possible! Know that you are creative (it just might be different than you think) Use a grey marker to add drop shadows Tools Steadlter Fineliners - https://www.staedtler.com/intl/en/products/Products-for-colouring/fineliners/ Promarkers - http://www.winsornewton.com/row/shop/graphic-markers/promarker Faber-Castell Brush Pens - https://www.faber-castell.com/products/art-and-graphic/pitt-artist-pens Sharpies - https://www.sharpie.com/ Post it notes - https://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/post-it/ iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-pro Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/lae/apple-pencil/ Paper by WeTransfer (formerly FiftyThree) - https://paper.bywetransfer.com/ Procreate - http://procreate.art/ Caran d'ache Non-Photo P{encil - https://www.jetpens.com/Caran-d-Ache-Sketcher-Non-Photo-Blue-Pencil-Pack-of-2/pd/15882 LINKS Chris Spalton on Twitter - https://twitter.com/chrisspalton The Eelman Chronicles - https://gumroad.com/cspalton Redgate Software - https://www.red-gate.com User Experience - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design Sunni Brown - http://sunnibrown.com Dan Roam - https://www.danroam.com Foolproof Design - https://www.foolproof.co.uk Chris' Medium article on comic strips and storyboards for UX concepting - https://uxplanet.org/using-comic-strips-and-storyboards-to-test-your-ux-concepts-cccad7ac7f71 The Fens - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Season 5 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se5

In this episode, Mike reflects on how each of the episodes in season 5 suggest the theme “serendipity” when taken as a whole. He talks about the great refresh for season 5 and plans for recording live interviews in season 6 at ISC18LX in Lisbon, Portugal. RUNNING ORDER Intro Season 5 theme was “serendipity” Reflections on each guest's theme and how they fit into the overall theme of the season Ending thoughts on season 5's refresh Brandy Agerbeck Micro adjustments The opportunity to capture Austin Kleon Magalie Le Gall Ben Crothers Doug Neill Allison & Lisa Lisa Kazan Patrick Rhone Controlled serendipity Turning challenges into assets Season 6 and recording live interviews Thank you listeners! I would love feedback Call for sponsors on season 6 Wrap-up LINKS Brandy Agerbeck, EP01 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/7/9/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-01-brandy-agerbeck Austin Kleon, EP02 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/7/16/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-02-austin-kleon Magalie LeGall, EP03 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/7/16/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-03-magalie-legall Ben Crothers, EP04 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/7/30/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-04-ben-crothers Doug Neill, EP05 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/8/6/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-05-doug-neill Allison Huang and Lisa Stone, EP06 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/8/13/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-06-allison-lisa Laura Kazan, EP07 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/8/20/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-07-laura-kazan Patrick Rhone, EP08 - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/8/27/sketchnote-army-podcast-season-05-episode-08-patrick-rhone Sponsorships: mike@sketchnotearmy.com CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4

Mike has not one, but TWO guests today: student Allison Huang and her teacher Lisa Stone. Allison was recently featured on Sketchnote Army sharing her journey into sketchnoting. Mike has invited her and her teacher, along to learn the story behind the story. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Workshop. A full-day hands-on training that expands your team's creative thinking. Mike Rohde guides your team through practical activities to expand your team's confidence - http://sketchnoteworkshop.com SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes and leave a nice review or rating if you like the show - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 RUNNING ORDER Intro Discovering and getting into Sketchnoting Reaching out to Mike One and Done vs Two-step Moving forward Integrating sketchnoter and teaching Tools 3 Tips Outro LINKS Allison's blog post - https://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/5/4/sketchnoters-stories-8th-grader-alison-revolutionizes-her-schtml The Sketchnote Handbook - http://rohdesign.com/handbook Study on the benefits of handwritten notes vs typing - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581 TOOLS Pentel EnerGel - http://www.pentel.com/store/energel-x-roller-gel-config Muji Pens - http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/pen-pencils/smooth-gel-ballpoint.html Zebra Mildliners - https://www.amazon.com/Mildliner-Double-sided-Highlighter-Original-Sticker/dp/B071VY7C22/therohdesignwebs iPad - https://www.apple.com/ipad/ Procreate - http://procreate.art 3 TIPS GO BIG! Take any chance to Sketchnote. Practice, Practice, Practice. Get involved with a sketchnote community CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST Buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off - http://rohdesign.com/books PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4

What's better than one expert sketchnoter called Mike… how about two? In this special season 5 pre-season podcast episode, Mike Rohde is joined by Michael Clayton as they preview the upcoming season 5 changes and the future of the Sketchnote Army Podcast. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Workshop. A full-day hands-on training that expands your teams creative thinking. Mike Rohde, the creator of Sketchnoting, will guide your team through practical activities to expand their creativity. Email Mike at mike@rohdesign.com or visit the site - http://sketchnoteworkshop.com SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes and leave a nice review or rating if you like the show, right here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 RUNNING ORDER Intro Why did you decide to refresh the podcast? What made you change the theme music? Have you thought about adding in some video or images in the Podcast? Who's coming on in Season 5? What's the deal with the sponsorship? Outro LINKS Mike Rohde - https://twitter.com/rohdesign Professor Michael Clayton - https://twitter.com/profclayton Full Podcast Archives - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast Michael Clayton's episode - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/professor-michael-clayton-se01-ep04 Catherine Madden - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/catherine-madden-se01-ep03 Rob Dimeo - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/physicist-rob-dimeo-se01-ep02 Dave Gray - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/dave-gray-se02-ep01 Eva-Lotta Lamm - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/eva-lotta-lamm-se02-ep03 Christina Wodtke - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/christina-wodtke-se03-ep08 Sunni Brown - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sunni-brown-se03-ep01 Ryder Carroll - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4 Jon Scheidermeyer - https://twitter.com/smaltmine Sketchnote Video Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCdugvAzY7lZMqV2VguMVPWEzW1aftQ1a Brandy Agerbeck - https://twitter.com/loosetooth Austin Kleon - https://twitter.com/austinkleon Ben Crothers - https://twitter.com/bencrothers Sketchnote Workshop - http://sketchnoteworkshop.com CREDITS Producer: Jon Schiedermayer Show Notes: Chris Wilson SUPPORT THE PODCAST To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army and Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's books and use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off! http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ PAST PODCAST SEASONS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se1 Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se2 Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se3 Season 4 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-se4

In this episode, Dr. Heidi interviews Mike Rohde about the changing world of design, visuals in communication and Sketchnotes as a communication tool. Mike Rohde, bestselling author of The Sketchnote Handbook (2012) and The Sketchnote Workbook (2014), and designer. He presents workshops around the world that encourage people to use visual thinking skills to generate, capture and share ideas more effectively. Mike is the illustrator of bestselling books REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, and The Little Book of Talent. He has been commissioned to create live sketchnotes for conferences and events, including SXSW Interactive, An Event Apart, Summit Series, World Domination Summit, and The Storyline Conference. Mike is a veteran designer who creates usable, compelling design solutions for software and web applications. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and 3 children. Website: http://rohdesign.comTwitter ID: rohdesign Instagram: rohdesign This episode is brought to you by my wellbeing tech of choice, Oska Pulse. It has helped relieve my chronic pain caused by Lyme disease so that I can get back to work, and life in general. Oska Pulse is a Pain Relief and Recovery Device using Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF). It creates an electromagnetic field that pulsates while it modulates the damaged cells to squeeze the toxins out and opens the cells to allow nutrients (potassium, sodium and magnesium) to flow into the cell. The Oska Pulse puts the damaged cells in the best situation to repair themselves and then replicates the electrical signals your body creates to fix the damaged cells. Click here to get yours today with my Ambassador discount. Or enter 2BU as a discount code at OskaWellness.com ShortLink is http://bit.ly/EDS-Oska

In this bonus episode to wrap up season 4, I'm joined by Mauro Toselli, Sketchnote Army's Chief Sketchnote Officer, to talk about the upcoming World Sketchnote Day on Thursday, January 11, 2018, and the many ways you can participate. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 LINKS World Sketchnote Day 2018 - Save The Date - http://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2018/1/5/jan-11-2018-world-sketchnote-day-is-back-snday2018-eyecontac.html International Sketchnote Camp Hamburg - https://sketchnotecamp.wordpress.com/ Mauro Toselli - https://twitter.com/xlontrax Marc Bourguignon - https://twitter.com/100978Marc Chris Malapitan - https://twitter.com/chriskem Hashtag #SNDay2018 - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23snday2018&src=typd Hashtag #eyecontact - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23 eyecontact&src=typd World Sketchnote Day Stickers - https://www.zazzle.com/world_sketchnote_day_stickers-217635997237944587 Sketchnoters' Stories - "The Visual Note Taking Handbook": Dyan Burgess: http://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2017/1/20/sketchnoters-stories-the-visual-note-taking-handbook-dyan-bu.html Sketchnoted Presentation for The Physics Show - Katharina Theis-Bröhl: http://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2017/1/16/sketchnoted-presentation-for-the-physics-show-katharina-thei.html Sketchnoters' Stories: "About being a Visual Practitioner": Holger Nies Pohl - http://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2016/11/28/sketchnoters-stories-about-being-a-visual-practitioner-holge.html Sketchnote Stories Submission - http://sketchnotearmy.com/sketchnote-submission/ Steve Silbert - https://twitter.com/stevesilbert PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1

G'day folks, today Mike is joined by Matthew Magain from Melbourne Australia. You might recognize his name from the Sketchnote Handbook. Matthew Shares his journey into sketchnoting and then on to 3D sketchnoting. Find out about how adding a third dimension can add (both in quality and challenges) to your sketchnoting. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 RUNNING ORDER Matt's Origin Story from Website design, to graphic facilitation to videos Sketch Group's origins and growth “Good enough for the moment Graphic recording and facilitation as a performance Experimenting on the edges 3D sketchnotes Excitement with some resistance Sharing 3D sketchnotes in different ways The importance of walls and lighting An experience of information Tools 3 Tips Outro TOOLS Neuland Markers - https://us.neuland.com Graphic Facilitators guide by Brandy Agerbeck - http://www.loosetooth.com/gfg/ Cintiq - http://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays Procreate App - https://procreate.art HTC Vive - https://www.vive.com/ Google Tilt brush - https://www.tiltbrush.com LINKS Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sketchgrp Matt's blog post about VR Sketching - https://www.sketchgroup.com.au/blog/vr-sketchnoting-bringing-conversations-to-virtual-life Cognitive media's Animated Sketchnote of Dan Pink's TED talk, Drive - https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc Sketch Group website: http://sketchgroup.com Web Directions - https://www.webdirections.org Links on Google Poly to Matt's VR sketchnotes from the Web Directions Summit conference: Chris Messina - https://poly.google.com/u/3/view/41qBWkQ8tKH Amélie Lamont - https://poly.google.com/u/3/view/9da-r8ULRgM Genevieve Bell -  https://poly.google.com/view/aGHfuxtdW0J Dan Rubin - https://poly.google.com/view/aGHfuxtdW0J 3D Sketchnote videos: Genevieve Bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKf3D9PJE- Amélie Lamont: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byRP0RcyedE Graphic Gear website (launching early 2018!) -  http://graphicgear.com.au MATTHEW'S 3 TIPS Share your sketchnotes Sketch a podcast practice large scale sketches (not just small scale) PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1
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Cate Tolnai got into sketchnoting last March at the CUE conference. She quickly dove head first into it as she saw the benefits in education. Today she joins Mike Rohde to discuss sketchnoting in education and growth mindsets, as well as sketchnoting in general. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES: You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 RUNNING ORDER Intro Who is Cate Tolnai? Growth Mindset What is Sketch 50? Sketchnotings impact on Education The value of mistakes and the reflective process Tools Three Tips Outro (Mike is awesome) LINKS Cate Tolnai's website - http://catetolnai.com/ Cate Tolanai on twitter - https://twitter.com/CateTolnai Sketch 50 website - http:/sketch50.org Sketchnote books by Mike - http://rohdesign.com/ Sketchnote Army - http://sketchnotearmy.com Growth Mindset - https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/carol-dweck-mindset/ Sketch 50 on Twitter - https://goo.gl/A6ny23 ITSE conference 2018 - https://conference.iste.org/2018/ Show your work - https://austinkleon.com/show-your-work/ Cate's Procreate tutorials - https://goo.gl/6k63th TOOLS iPad Pro - https://www.apple.com/lae/ipad-pro/ Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/lae/apple-pencil/ Procreate - https://procreate.art/ Rocketbook - https://getrocketbook.co.uk/ CATE'S 3 TIPS Just share! (Find good hashtags, or just share with a friend) Lean in to your growth mindset Don't worry about borrowing from others (trace!) PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1
 Special thanks to Christopher Wilson for the show notes - @mrchrisjwilson https://twitter.com/mrchrisjwilson

This week I'm joined by Oscar Campo is a professor at a university in Cali, Columbia. He got into sketchnoting to help him take better notes at his church and pay more attention to the sermons. Later, Oscar started incorporating sketchnotes into all of his life including his work at university. Although he has no artistic training, he creates beautiful images within his sketchnotes. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts RUNNING ORDER Intro Oscar's origin story Sketchnoting at University (Professors make the worst students!) Sermon Sketchnoting Observing like an artist (or engineer) Tools Noteshelf app Trick: Hiding layers! 3 Tips LINKS Oscar on Twitter - https://twitter.com/OscarCampo_ Oscar on Facebook - http://facebook.com/oscar.campo Oscar on Instagram - https://instagram.com/oscampo Mike's Sketchnote Handbook - http://rohdesign.com/handbook TOOLS Noteshelf app for iOS - http://www.noteshelf.net/ Apple Pencil - https://www.apple.com/lae/apple-pencil/ iPad Pro 9.7 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_Pro Any pen! Procreate app - https://procreate.art/ Comic Draw App - https://plasq.com/apps/comicdraw/ios/ Linea App - http://linea-app.com/ Whink app - http://whinkapp.com/ OSCAR'S 3 TIPS Don't compare your sketchnotes to other people's Tools aren't important, Information is. Share your sketchnotes with the world PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1
 Special thanks to Christopher Wilson for the show notes - @mrchrisjwilson https://twitter.com/mrchrisjwilson

This week Mike Rohde is joined by Federica Tabone, a Psychologist who uses creative expressions like sketchnoting in her work to help businesses and students develop their soft skills with experiential learning.

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SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes:
 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778 RUNNING ORDER Intro Federica's origin story How Federica uses Sketchnotes in her work Sketchnotes as a visual map of the consultation The Power of holding a marker Showing progress via sketchnotes Sketchnotes for self evaluation Tools Analog over digital 6 Tips How to get started using sketchnotes in a conversation TOOLS Paper Wedge nib markers Neuland markers - https://eu.neuland.com/ Muji Pen - https://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?Sec=13 Camscanner App - https://www.camscanner.com/ 3 PHYSICAL TIPS Keep it simple - just use a few lines Stay Big - use large fonts to stress importance Leave some white space - it helps frame icons and words 3 MENTAL TIPS You don't have to be a design, just use sketchnoting in your everyday life Find your style - font, color, Be more familiar with using Sketchnotes in everyday life - in meetings, planning a trip etc. LINKS Federica's website - http://www.federicatabone.com/ Sketchnote sample 1 - http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1019667/27746065/1510412464527/Coaching+Sketchnote+example+by+F.+Tabone_1.jpg Sketchnote sample 2 - http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/1019667/27746067/1510412502650/Coaching+Sketchnote+example+by+F.+Tabone_2.jpg Federica on Twitter - https://twitter.com/federicatabone 
PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1
 Special thanks to Christopher Wilson for the show notes - @mrchrisjwilson https://twitter.com/mrchrisjwilson

In this episode I welcome Ryder Carroll, creator of the Bullet Journal to the show. We talk about the origin of Bullet Journaling, and how sharing his approach to help a friend opened his mind to the power of his methodology. Listen as Ryder talks about being reflective about the things we want to do, and that sometimes this reflection might reveal we don't need do some things at all. Enjoy this crossover into analog productivity! 

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RUNNING ORDER Intro What is bullet Journaling? And Ryder's superhero origin story ADHD Sharing with a friend Putting the Bullet journal online Gained from other sharing, so he shared Picked up on Lifehacker Simplified to basics Not everything took off “Is this something I want to exist?” Removing friction and making things to make things a little easier The limits of Analogue and the Bullet Journal App Process and Product benefits of Bullet Journaling Try it for 2 months Sketchnoting & bullet journaling together Being the doodling kid & Education Ryder's Three Tips Ryder also can't match Pinterest bullet journals Get out of it whatever you can RYDER'S THREE TIPS Keep it simple Make it your own Be patient with yourself
 LINKS Ryder on Twitter - http://twitter.com/rydercarroll Ryder's website -  http://www.rydercarroll.com Bullet Journal Website - http://bulletjournal.com Bullet journal on Instagram - http://instagram.com/bulletjournal Iterative process - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration SeanWes Overlap Book - https://seanwes.com/book/ SeanWes Free or Full Price - https://seanwes.com/podcast/164-full-price-or-free/ Bullet Journal Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1562027630/bullet-journal-journaling-at-the-speed-of-life Bullet Journal notebook - https://store.bulletjournal.com/ Bullet Journal App - http://bulletjournal.com/companion The Bullet Journal in Lifehacker - https://lifehacker.com/the-bullet-journal-productivity-method-empowers-your-pa-1169313228 DaVinci's notebooks - http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/warehouse-13-artifact-database/images/9/92/6a00e54f9f8f8c883400e5520121768833-800wi.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151024030043 
 PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1
 Special thanks to Christopher Wilson for the show notes - https://twitter.com/mrchrisjwilson

In this episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, Mike is joined by two very special guests. His wife Gail and Professor Michael Clayton as they recap the first International Sketchnote Camp in Hamburg. Listen in! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts RUNNING ORDER Intro Michael Clayton's experience Breakdown of the events Gail's experience Turkish food at Mr Kebab! After the conference Michael at the Berlin VizThink - https://mobile.twitter.com/theiskbt/status/912576950362918912/photo/1 THE EVENT Michael Clayton's perspective of the event Gail's experience of the event The post event dinner on the feuerschiff Saying goodbye Planning for the next conference Parting thoughts Name change? End credits Special thanks to Christopher Wilson for the show notes! 
INTERNATIONAL SKETCHNOTE CAMP LINKS Hashtag #ISC17HH International Sketchnote Camp website -https://sketchnotecamp.wordpress.com ISC Twitter Account - https://mobile.twitter.com/sketchnote_camp Twitter feed of the event - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23isc17hh&src=typed_query Instagram feed of the event - https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/isc17hh/ NIST MEET UP Twitter hashtag - https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23snsymp17&src=typed_query Instagram hashtag - https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/snsymp17/ Sketchnote Army Podcast episode live at the NIST Sketchnote Symposium -https://t.co/10ynVZ3LsK?amp=1 Rob Dimeo - https://mobile.twitter.com/Rob_Dimeo THE FAB FOUR Katharina TheisBröhl - https://mobile.twitter.com/theiskbt Marianne Rady - https://mobile.twitter.com/MarianneRady Andrea Brücken - https://mobile.twitter.com/dieHauteCulture Diana Soriat - https://mobile.twitter.com/DianaSoriat 
 PEOPLE MENTIONED Claire Ohlenschlager - https://twitter.com/claire_ohl Luis Gonzaga - https://mobile.twitter.com/LuisGonzagacom Chris Malapitan - https://twitter.com/chriskem Marc Bourguignon - https://twitter.com/100978Marc Mauro Toselli - https://twitter.com/xLontrax Mario Foglia - https://twitter.com/foglia_mario Connie Eybisch-Klimpel - http://meinroterfaden.de Kristina Friedrich - https://mobile.twitter.com/Tineko42 Tanja Wehr - http://www.sketchnotelovers.de - Sabine Schultz - https://mitp.de/BUSINESS-MARKETING/Sketchnotes/ Holger Nils Pohl - https://twitter.com/HolgerNilsPohl Eva-Lotta Lamm - https://twitter.com/evalottchen Ines Schaffranek - https://twitter.com/pheminific Karl Damke - https://twitter.com/karlcdamke Didier Daglinckx - https://twitter.com/didierdaglinckx Loraine Kasyan - https://twitter.com/lorrainekasyan Karen Forkish - https://twitter.com/kforkish 
SATURDAY CAMP Location of ISH - www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/locations/venue/hamburg/ Hanseatic League - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League_ MITP - http://www.mitp.de Mike's keynote - https://t.co/LHi3YonuvM?amp=1 BarCamp format - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp?wprov=sfti1 Photo of sessions plan - https://mobile.twitter.com/MrChrisJWilson/status/911508571774439425 Digital list of sessions - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1353C34qqfhe1ZIRGItK7lxdauMZ4M_9_4O3ZvJxGWSM Hank's talk on whiteboard animations - https://mobile.twitter.com/KatjaBudnikov/status/911528521142603776

 DINNER Fireboat restaurant by the Elbe river “feuerschiff” - https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187331-d1356052-Reviews-Light_Vessel_13-Hamburg.html Peanut butter footballs - https://mobile.twitter.com/EattheBall Mauro as Sketchnote Smurf - https://mobile.twitter.com/profclayton/status/922275550768648192 
 TOOLS Neuland markers - https://eu.neuland.com Workvisual app - http://www.work-visual.com/app/ The Sketchnote Handbook - http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ The Sketchnote Workbook - http://rohdesign.com/workbook/

In this interview with Christina Wodtke, we talk about the meaning of sketchnoting, drawing, and how they relate to language, interpretation and improvisation. Christina also shares her thoughts on the importance of creating lots of bad drawings to get to good ideas, her tools and 3 tips for sketchnoters. Listen in! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Christina on Twitter - https://twitter.com/cwodtke Christina's Website - http://eleganthack.com Christina on Medium - https://medium.com/@cwodtke California College of the Arts - https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/cwodtke Stanford Continuous Education Department - http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu Radical Focus - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0996006028/therohdesignwebs Dan Roam - https://twitter.com/dan_roam Kate Rutter - https://twitter.com/katerutter Alex Osterwalder - https://twitter.com/AlexOsterwalder Ed Emberly - http://edemberleydrawingpages.blogspot.com Mayan Script - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mayan.htm Pareidolia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Alphabets and Ideographs - https://medium.com/@cwodtke/alphabets-and-ideographs-486d59d1dc01#.v4vg2rq2b In defense of the visual alphabet - https://medium.com/the-xplane-collection/in-defense-of-the-visual-alphabet-a8dcca7cf151#.uqvwpw53p The Choreography of Sketching - https://medium.com/@evalottchen/the-choreography-of-sketching-b21f8ba644e#.d114j86so Paper by 53 - Autodesk SketchBook - http://www.autodesk.com/products/sketchbook-pro/overview Muji Notebooks - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00I6Y0MH8/therohdesignwebs Micron Pigment Liners - https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Archival-pigment-line-width-technical/dp/B01N0UC0VM/therohdesignwebs Tombow Gray Dual Brush Markers - https://www.amazon.com/Tombow-Brush-Markers-Grayscale-6-Pack/dp/B0044JOPZY/therohdesignwebs Linea for iPad - http://linea-app.com iA Writer - https://ia.net/writer/ Procreate - http://procreate.si Brushes Redux - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brushes-redux/id932089074?mt=8 Microsoft Surface Pro - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface CHRISTINA'S 3 TIPS Make as many bad drawings as you can, They do the job. Quantity! Sketchnote books and chapters. Write what you want to keep for yourself. Copy everything you like, because it's wonderful!

Scrum master and sketchnoter Marianne Rady talks to us about agile, Scrum, and how they relate to sketchnoting, listening and working with teams. Listen in! This episode was recorded before a live studio audience at the first Sketchnote Symposium at NIST, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, February 26, 2017. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Marianne Rady on Twitter - https://twitter.com/mariannerady Marianne's site - http://mariannerady.com/en/ Marianne Rady on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mariannerady/ HolidayCheck - https://www.holidaycheck.de Jeff Sutherland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sutherland Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time - https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534645X/therohdesignwebs Scrum Training Series - http://www.scrumtrainingseries.com The Agile Manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org Stabilo Fineline Pens - https://www.amazon.com/Stabilo-8830-1-Point-30-Coloring-Fineline/dp/B00ATBRJRC/therohdesignwebs Stabilo Green Point Pens - https://www.amazon.com/Stabilo-Greenpoint-Recycled-Assorted-6088-6/dp/B004D36PL8/therohdesignwebs Neuland Markers - http://us.neuland.com Daler Rowney Ebony Hardback Spiral Sketchbook Portrait A4 - https://www.amazon.com/Daler-Rowney-Hardback-Sketchbook-Portrait/dp/B00ZF9XRBU/therohdesignwebs MARIANNE'S 3 TIPS Use what you have! Just start drawing, fancy things later. Sketchnote the things you love anyway. Get in contact with the community for support and encouragement.

In this episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, I'm joined by Katharina Theis-Bröhl, Andrea Brücken, and Marianne Rady to announce International Sketchnote Camp in Hamburg, Germany, September 23, 2017! Listen in as we talk about the event, Hamburg, travel ideas and what this sketchnote-oriented unconference will look like. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Katharina Theis-Bröhl - https://twitter.com/theiskbt Katharina on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ Andrea Brücken Twitter - https://twitter.com/dieHauteCulture Andrea on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/andrea_sketcht Marianne Rady - https://twitter.com/mariannerady Marianne on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ Diana Soriat - https://twitter.com/dianasoriat Diana on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dianasoriat Hamburg - http://www.hamburg.com/visitors/ Lonely Planet: Hamburg - https://www.lonelyplanet.com/germany/hamburg Hashtag #ISC17

Diane Bleck is an innovation strategist, graphic recorder and facilitator, and the founder of the Doodle Institute. In this discussion we walk about her work in the visual thinking world as the Doodle Girl! Learn about the work Diane is doing, her tools and how we both think there is a ton of opportunity for everyone in the community. Listen in! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Diane on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dianebleck Diane on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dianebleck Diane on on Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/dianebleck Doodle Institute - http://DoodleInstitute.com Blog Posts - https://doodleinstitute.mykajabi.com/blog Muddy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbschlegel/ Sketches II - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tayasui-sketches-ii-draw-paint/id641900855?mt=8 AmazeoGraph - http://amaziograph.com Neuland Markers - http://us.neuland.com Gouache paint - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouache CamScanner - https://www.camscanner.com/user/download DIANE'S 3 TIPS Doodle and doodle something every day for creative ideas. This isn't about art, it's about ideas. Unicorns eat Gremlins! Draw with a child for a magical experience.

Katharina Theis-Bröhl is a physicist who loves to sketchnote scientific ideas, like solar energy, as well was a passion for teaching others to sketchnote. A colleague and friend of Rob Dimeo, she shares her experiences finding sketchnotes, using digital and analog tools and her 3 tips for sketchnoters. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Katharina on Twitter - https://twitter.com/theiskbt Katharina on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ktb_visual/ Katharina on Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/theiskbt NIST - http://www.nist.gov/index.html Rob Dimeo - https://twitter.com/Rob_Dimeo Rob's Sketchnote of Katharina's Paper - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dimeophotos/19205184679/ Solar Power Sketchnotes - https://www.flickr.com/photos/theiskbt/albums/72157666790607564 A. R. Penck Art - https://www.google.com/search?q=penck#q=ar+penck+art Paper by FiftyThree - https://www.fiftythree.com/paper Procreate - http://procreate.si Ecoline Brushes - https://www.royaltalens.com/brands/talens/graphic-art-products/ecoline-liquid-water-colour/ecoline-brush-pen/ Moleskine Pocket Dot Grid Notebook - https://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Classic-Notebook-Pocket-Dotted/dp/B015NG45CO/therohdesignwebs Leuchtturm1917 A6 Dot Grid Notebook - https://www.amazon.com/Leuchtturm1917-Notebook-Pocket-Softcover-Squared/dp/B003EVMMZS/therohdesignwebs Midori Traveler's Notebook - http://www.travelers-notebook.com Fauxdori Notebooks - http://www.tortagialla.com/2015/05/13/make-your-own-midori-fauxdori-travelers-notebook/ Icon & Sketchnote Challenges - https://gumroad.com/snchallenge KATHARINA'S 3 TIPS Take part in challenges to learn more and get better. Don't stress yourself out! Keep it fun! Publish your work for the community!

Dana Ladenburger and Carrie Baughcum are two teachers who love sketchnotes, and teaching sketchnoting to their students! In this episode, we talk about how they both came to sketchnotes, how they use them in class and their upcoming workshop at the Illinois Computing Educators Conference. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Carrie on Twitter: - https://twitter.com/HeckAwesome Carrie on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/Heck_Awesome_ Carrie's Blog - http://carriebaughcum.com Dana on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DLadenburger Dana on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/DLadenburger Paper Mate Flair Felt Tip Pen - https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Mate-Medium-Assorted-12-Count/dp/B000J09CO6/therohdesignwebs XL Mix Media Pad, 7"X10" Side Wire - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0039UMRMW/therohdesignwebs Mix Media Pad, Side Wire - https://www.amazon.com/Canson-100510930-Sheets-Height-Length/dp/B0039UKMCO/therohdesignwebs Copic Markers - https://www.amazon.com/Copic-Marker-12-Piece-Sketch-Basic/dp/B000MRR3GU/therohdesignwebs Sharpies - https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A1069802%2Ck%3Asharpie%20marker%2Cp_85%3A2470955011%2Cp_89%3ASharpie%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A6358196011%2Cssx%3Arelevance Dixon Ticonderoga Pencils - http://www.staples.com/Dixon-Ticonderoga-Pencils-2-Soft-Dozen/product_487129 Post It Notes - https://www.amazon.com/Post-Pop-up-3-Inches-Canary-Yellow/dp/B003MR2WKY/therohdesignwebs White Butcher Paper - https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Kraft-0066001-Duo-Finish-Light-Weight/dp/B000F8TBS4/therohdesignwebs Mr. Sketch Scented Markers - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IFH0/therohdesignwebs Sharpie Flip Chart Markers Black - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IP1KF2/therohdesignwebs Sharpie Flip Chart Markers 8 Colors - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZZ56D4/therohdesignwebs Illinois Computing Educators Conference (ICE) - http://www.iceberg.org Wendi Pilars - https://twitter.com/wendi322 Visual Note-Taking for Educators - https://smile.amazon.com/Visual-Note-Taking-Educators-Teachers-Creativity/dp/0393708454/therohdesignwebs DANA'S 3 TIPS Release the fear! Practice, practice, practice! Be OK with losing a bit of control, teachers! CARRIE'S 3 TIPS Stop being critical of yourself and fearful of your drawings! Start small, start with one sketchnoting technique, then build up. Draw with your kids, enjoy the energy, fun and smiles in your classroom!

Emily Carlton keeps GIRL POWER Season 3 rolling! She's an independent illustrator, sketchnoter, and designer. Emily and I talk about her background as a designer, illustrator, and sketchnoter, and her jump to independent work. We also talk about her Drawing and Donuts event organizing, favorite tools and her 3 tips for sketchnoters. Listen in! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES World Sketchnote Day - http://sketchnotearmy.com/world-sketchnote-day/ Emily on Twitter - https://twitter.com/emilyacarlton Emily on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/emilyacarlton/ Emily Carlton Illustration - http://emilycarlton.com The Sketch Effect - http://thesketcheffect.com Emily's Sketchnote Biography - https://www.instagram.com/p/BJYDmf0gnfp/?taken-by=emilyacarlton Emily's Sketchnote Christmas Letter - https://www.instagram.com/p/BOxN5I1gwbC/?taken-by=emilyacarlton Mathias Jakobsen's 2016 Annual Report - http://www.thnkclrly.com/annualreport/ Drawing and Donuts - http://drawinganddonuts.com Viking Pump Roadmap - http://emilycarlton.com/project/company-roadmap/ Seanwes' Learn Lettering Course - https://seanwes.com/learn/ Papermate Flair Pens - https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Mate-Flair-Porous-Medium/dp/B00MR1QBK8/therohdesignwebs Pentel Energel - https://www.amazon.com/Pentel-EnerGel-Liquid-Medium-Capped/dp/B005Y0T8C2/therohdesignwebs Tombow Gray Dual Brush Pens - https://www.amazon.com/Tombow-Brush-Markers-Grayscale-10-Pack/dp/B0044JOS6K/therohdesignwebs Moleskine Sketchbook - https://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Sketchbook-Large-Classic-Notebooks/dp/8883701151/therohdesignwebs Procreate - http://procreate.si Paper by Fifty-three - https://www.fiftythree.com/paper EMILY'S 3 TIPS Recognizable over perfect! Don't be discouraged if you can't draw it perfectly, because a recognizable image works just fine. Practice over and over and over! Progress comes in small increments! Invest in a good book light! Cover yourself in dark situations.

Sunni Brown leads off GIRL POWER Season 3 of the Sketchnote Army Podcast! Trained as a graphic recorder at the Grove by visual thinking Jedi master David Sibbet, Sunni has found her own path to incorporating game design, design thinking, and improv into her visual thinking practice, to create fully immersive services for her clients. Listen as Sunni and I talk about her path to where she is now, the impact and importance of community, empathy, and more. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Sunni Brown - https://twitter.com/sunnibrown Book: The Doodle Revolution - http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/ SXSW Interactive: Visual Thinking 101 - http://rohdesign.com/weblog/2010/5/11/sxsw-2010-visual-note-taking-101-podcast-slides.html Book: Gamestorming - https://www.amazon.com/Gamestorming-Playbook-Innovators-Rulebreakers-Changemakers-ebook/dp/B003XDUCLS/therohdesignwebs Book: The Doodle Revolution - https://www.amazon.com/Doodle-Revolution-Unlock-Power-Differently/dp/1591847036/therohdesignwebs ComedySportz Milwaukee - http://www.cszmke.com/ Dave Gray - http://www.xplaner.com/ Dave Gray's Sketchnote Army Podcast Interview - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/dave-gray-se02-ep01 Book: Liminal Thinking - http://twowavesbooks.com/book/liminal-thinking/ The Backward Bike - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0 Seinfeld: Opposite George - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlY Book: Unleashing The Idea Virus - http://www.sethgodin.com/ideavirus/01-getit.html Mind Mapping - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map Book: Untangled - http://sunnibrown.com/untangled Book: War of Art - https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Through-Creative-Battles/dp/1936891026/therohdesignwebs The Grove - http://www.grove.com/ Graphic Recording - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIgcoc7Wqg Graphic Facilitation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_facilitation Rob Dimeo - https://twitter.com/Rob_Dimeo_ Sketchnoting and Scientific Topics - http://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2016/1/25/sketchnoters-stories-sketchnoting-and-scientific-topics-rob.html 2017 New Years Aspirations - https://twitter.com/sunnibrown/status/815290932048396293 Zig Dual Writer Markers - https://www.amazon.com/Zig-Memory-System-Writer-Marker/dp/B004XIVOFA/therohdesignwebs Neuland Markers - http://us.neuland.com/ Static Notes - https://teslaamazing.com/ Tombow Paint Markers - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XAORTC/therohdesignwebs Betabook - http://www.betabook.co/ Grove Paper - https://grovetools-inc.com/collections/supplies/products/paper ULINE Butcher Paper - https://www.uline.com/BL_1956/Butcher-Paper?keywords=roll%20paper Box Cutters - https://www.uline.com/Product/AdvSearchResult?keywords=box%20cutter SUNNI'S 3 TIPS Not needing permission. Whatever you make is going to be OK, so dot it! Practice the visual alphabet, build a visual library. Best kept secret! It's not cheating to use reference images and icons. Peer collaborators - share and play with community.

Hey, it's a bonus episode! In this surprise episode, Mauro and I talk about our reflections on the first two seasons of the podcast, favorite episodes, and ideas, and our request for your feedback for season 3. Sketchnote Army Podcast Survey: https://docs.google.com/a/rohdesign.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSZFPo49Y2AhJ8lyd43p2k4eIhY267S5QNUN5rZGmXAPTftw/viewform SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Mauro on Twitter - https://twitter.com/xLontrax Mike on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rohdesign Our first podcast episode - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/ipad-pro-apple-pencil-se01-ep01 Dave Gray SE02 / EP01 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/dave-gray-se02-ep01 Eva-Lotta Lamm SE02 / EP02 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/eva-lotta-lamm-se02-ep03 Michael Clayton SE01 / EP04 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/professor-michael-clayton-se01-ep04 Rob Dimeo SE01 / EP02 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/physicist-rob-dimeo-se01-ep02 Nikki McDonald - SE01 / EP06 -https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/nikki-mcdonald-se01-ep06 Todd Clarke SE02 / EP02 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/todd-clarke-se02-ep02 Anita Verna Crofts SE02 / EP04 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/anita-verna-crofts-se02-ep04 Mike Interviewed by Rob Dimeo SE02 / EP06 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/mike-rohde-se02-ep06 James Saretta SE01 / EP08 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/james-saretta-se01-ep08 Sketchnote Army Podcast Survey - https://docs.google.com/a/rohdesign.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSZFPo49Y2AhJ8lyd43p2k4eIhY267S5QNUN5rZGmXAPTftw/viewform Sketchnote Army T-Shirts - http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts Sketchnote Icons T-Shirts at Cotton Bureau - https://cottonbureau.com/products/sketchnote-icons iTunes - leave a nice review! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sketchnote-army-podcast/id1111996778

In episode 8, the last of season 2, I have a great discussion with Pastor Gary Lau about his goal to sketchnote the entire Bible and his new site for bible sketchnotes. We discuss ways people are sketchnoting sermons and scriptures, Gary's 3 tips, and the Sketchnote Army Traveling Book. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Gary on Twitter - https://twitter.com/pastorgarylau Gary on Instagram - https://instagram.com/pastorgarylau/ Bible Sketchnote - https://biblesketchnote.com Email Gary - gary@biblesketchnote.com Walk Thru the Bible - http://www.walkthru.org/ Back of the Napkin - https://www.amazon.com/Back-Napkin-Expanded-Problems-Pictures/dp/1591842697/therohdesignwebs Learn the Bible Fast - http://www.learnthebiblefast.com/ Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil - http://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Kuru-Toga-Auto-Lead-Rotation-Mechanical-Pencil-0.5-mm-Black-Body/pd/3219 Sakura Micron Pen - http://www.jetpens.com/Sakura-Pigma-Micron-Pen-Size-03-0.35-mm-Black/pd/2062 Touch Twin Marker WG3 Warm Grey - https://www.amazon.com/ShinHan-Touch-Twin-Marker-WG3/dp/B009JQ7WOI/therohdesignwebs BetaBook - http://www.betabook.co/ Tweetdeck - https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ Show Your Work - https://www.amazon.com/Show-Your-Work-Creativity-Discovered/dp/076117897X/therohdesignwebs Sketchnote Army Traveling Notebook - http://sketchnotearmy.com/blog/2016/9/16/the-sketchnote-army-traveling-book.html Melinda Walker - https://twitter.com/OneSquigglyLine Rob Dimeo - https://twitter.com/Rob_Dimeo Michael Clayton - https://twitter.com/ProfClayton Catharine Mi-Sook - https://twitter.com/catharinemisook Oscar Campo - https://twitter.com/OscarCampo_ Mauro Toselli - https://twitter.com/xLontrax Marichel Boudwin - https://twitter.com/ItsLilpeanut Diana Soriat - https://twitter.com/DianaSoriat Marianne Rady - https://twitter.com/MarianneRady Katharina TheisBröhl - https://twitter.com/theiskbt Mario Foglia - https://twitter.com/foglia_mario James Saretta - https://twitter.com/JamesSaretta Mitch Bolton - https://twitter.com/muntz Austin Kleon - https://twitter.com/austinkleon Dave Gray - https://twitter.com/davegray Mathias Jakobsen - https://twitter.com/thnkclrly

In episode 7 of season 2, I have a long, wonderful discussion with visual thinker Mathias Jakobsen about his journey into visual thinking from legos and software development; talk about his Think Clearly Bootcamp world tour, the nuances of analog and digital for notes, and more. Listen in! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Mathias on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thnkclrly Mathias on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thnkclrly/ Mathias on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mathiasvestergaard Think Clearly - http://www.thnkclrly.com About Mathias - http://www.thnkclrly.com/about-mathias-jakobsen/ Think Clearly Bootcamp World Tour - http://www.thnkclrly.com/bootcamp/ Think Clearly Handwritten Newsletter - http://www.thnkclrly.com/newsletter/ Handwritten Newsletter Archives - http://www.thnkclrly.com/category/thinking-clearly/ Clarity Cards - http://www.thnkclrly.com/cards/ Think Clearly Online Classes - http://www.thnkclrly.com/classes-overview/ Hyper Island - https://www.hyperisland.com Leuchtturm 1917 Black Soft Cover Journal A4 Blank - https://www.amazon.com/Leuchtturm-1917-Black-Cover-Journal/dp/B01EU06W8O/therohdesignwebs Moleskine Cahier Journal A5 - https://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Cahier-Journal-Large-Squared/dp/8883704991/therohdesignwebs Neuland One - http://us.neuland.com/markers-und-more/neuland-markers/workshopmarker-neuland-no.one-singles.html Neuland Big One - http://us.neuland.com/markers-und-more/neuland-markers/neuland-bigone-singles.html Paper by 53 - http://www.fiftythree.com/paper Apple iPad Pro - https://apple.com/ipad-pro/ Apple Pencil - https:// apple.com/apple-pencil/

In this turnabout episode, fellow sketchnoter Rob Dimeo asks me the questions: about my training and current role as a full-time designer, my views on the definition of a sketchnote, how important building community is, which 3 people have influenced me, and 3 tips for sketchnoters. What a blast! SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Mike on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rohdesign Rohdesign - http://rohdesign.com MATC Design Department - http://www.matc.edu/media_creative_arts/degrees/graphic-design.cfm Gomoll Research + Design - http://gomolldesign.com Rohdesign Dispatch, my email newsletter - http://rohdesign.com/newsletter/ The Sketchnote Handbook - http://rohdesign.com/handbook/ The Sketchnote Workbook - http://rohdesign.com/workbook/ 30-Day Sketchnote Challenge book cancellation - https://medium.com/@rohdesign/30-day-sketchnote-challenge-book-update-92db39132310#.v5my6c74b 30 Day Experiment Sign Up - https://docs.google.com/a/rohdesign.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiPUUEYZFdbbE9FOnPdron0KfwJmIkHiERyXvhWHI64l6WvA/viewform Meadowbrook Church Sketchnotes & Podcasts - http://www.mbctosa.org/messages/ This is Meadowbrook brush sketch video - https://vimeo.com/186299807 Paper by 53 - http://www.fiftythree.com/paper The Sketchnote Video Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fi3kHDs0rg&list=PLCdugvAzY7lZMqV2VguMVPWEzW1aftQ1a Shantell Martin's 53 Paper Course - https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/Digital-Drawing-Workout-The-Art-of-Subtraction/1511544034 Catherine Madden Sketchnoting Course - https://www.skillshare.com/classes/design/Visual-Thinking-How-to-Create-Sketchnotes-to-Capture-and-Synthesize-Content/1400097522 Jeffrey Zeldman - https://twitter.com/zeldman Eva-Lotta Lamm - https://twitter.com/evalottchen Nikki McDonald - https://twitter.com/nikkimc

Jason Alderman is a user experience designer and developer in the museum exhibit space. In this episode, Jason shares his story, how he's become known for his XOXO conference sketchnotes, the tools he uses, and his perspective on analog vs. digital for sketchnoting. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Twitter - https://twitter.com/justsomeguy The Creative License by Danny Gregory - http://amzn.to/1FBpUeo Scott McCloud - http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html Eva-Lotta Lamm - https://twitter.com/evalottchen Jason Fried: A mistake is a moment in time - https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3347-a-mistake-is-a-moment-in-time Bullet Journal - http://bulletjournal.com Linnea Vizard's talk on cartography - https://vimeo.com/161158258 Joe Sokohl's talk on maps and IA - https://blueprintdigital.com/ia-summit-2016/joe-sokohl/ Jason's sketchnotes of the talk - https://twitter.com/justsomeguy/status/730827084491161600 XOXO Festival - http://xoxofest.com Jason's XOXO sketchnotes https://twitter.com/justsomeguy/status/783511313733545984 Darby's XOXO sketchnotes https://twitter.com/ddddarby/status/774657912987750400 https://twitter.com/ddddarby/status/774687157260652544 Tess's XOXO sketchnotes https://twitter.com/tessevans/status/776245982681927680 https://twitter.com/tessevans/status/776246684808417280 Susan's XOXO sketchnotes https://twitter.com/bysusanlin/status/775034451373858816 https://twitter.com/bysusanlin/status/775046500690702336 https://twitter.com/bysusanlin/status/775041721373642752 https://twitter.com/bysusanlin/status/775129644966088704 https://twitter.com/bysusanlin/status/775885191424258049 Leslie's XOXO sketchnotes https://twitter.com/feistyelle/status/774880766975025152 https://twitter.com/feistyelle/status/775160180967215105 Kuretake brush pens (Thanks to Alan Tew, Derek Hunter, and Ryan Ottley for introducing me to these pens, and JetPens!) - http://www.jetpens.com/Kuretake-Fountain-Brush-Pens/ct/569 Jason's cheapie Wexford notebooks - https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/wexford-medium-weight-sketch-book/ID=prod6112449-product Ink Joy GEL pens - http://inkjoy.papermate.com/en-US/GEL Sharpie Pen - http://www.sharpie.com/en-US/pens---pencils

Anita Verna Crofts shares her perspective on travel, food and how they intersect with sketchnoting in her life and with her creativity. Learn more about her new book Meet Me at the Bamboo Table. Learn how food, travel and identity helped shape her life, and her new book. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES A.V. Crofts - http://www.avcrofts.com Pepper for the Beast - http://pepperforthebeast.com University of Washington - http://www.com.washington.edu/crofts/ Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/anitanotations/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/avcrofts Twitter - https://twitter.com/avcrofts Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/avcrofts Book: Meet me at the Bamboo Table - http://store.chinmusicpress.com/product/meet-me-at-the-bamboo-table Uni-Ball Vision Stick Rollerball Pen, Fine Point, Black - https://www.amazon.com/Sanford-Uni-Ball-Vision-Rollerball-60126/dp/B00006IE8J/therohdesignwebs Moleskine Reporters Notebook (lined) - https://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Ruled-Reporter-Notebook-Pocket/dp/8883705483/therohdesignwebs iPad - http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Sketchbook Pro - http://www.autodesk.com/products/sketchbook-pro/overview

In this episode, I chat with the amazing Eva-Lotta Lamm, a designer, sketchnoter and a really brilliant person, who traveled the world and captured the experiences she had as sketchnotes. We also talk about tools, iPad Pro and Eva-Lotta shares 3 tips for improving your sketchnoting practice. SPONSORED BY The Sketchnote Army Clothing Collection! A variety of t-shirts and sweatshirts available for sale at Teespring that support Sketchnote Army and look fashionable at the same time! http://sketchnotearmy.com/t-shirts SHOW NOTES Eva-Lotta's Website - http://www.sketchnotesbook.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/evalottchen Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/evalottchen/ Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/ Secrets from the road: reliving our world trip in sketchnotes - https://secretsfromtheroad.com/ Secrets from the road (Facebook) - https://www.facebook.com/secretsfromtheroad/ Notes from the Road - https://www.flickr.com/photos/evalottchen/albums/72157648014035569 Eva-Lotta's favorite pens - http://www.sketchnotesbook.com/blog/2013/2/19/f7jvg6pebvlzb433lho8uplf8z5e3i Apple iPad Pro - www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ Apple Pencil - www.apple.com/apple-pencil/ Paper by FiftyThree - https://www.fiftythree.com Procreate App for iPad - procreate.si/ Thoughts About Sketching Practice - https://medium.com/@evalottchen/thoughts-about-sketching-practice-53454ef9cb19 Drawn together through Visual Practice, an anthology featuring an article about Visual Improvisation by Eva-Lotta - https://visualpracticebook.com/

#8: I remember when I was a little girl, I love drawing on the chalk boards, or whatever paper and markers I could get the hold of, and just let my imagination flow. However, since the Powerpoint entered to my former corporate life, I found myself couldn’t draw a thing anymore. Funny thing is nowadays many corporations would hire Sketch- noting experts to come to their organizations to “doodle out” their process & procedures, or whatever their next goal-setting as a team. As the result has been proven as stunningly effective especially in business communication. Today our guest does just that, and super good at it. Not only for corporations, also for entrepreneurs just like you and me. His name is Laurens Bonnema. I met Laurens in New Media Europe conference in Sept. 2015. Many of attendants were surprised by the natural beauty of his sketch notes from the event. Why I said natural beauty, well, you got to listen further to figure it out, and WHY it’s probably the most powerful branding strategy for your business. His official bio: Laurens is an Agile Management Consultant and an expert in sustainably aligning business and IT to improve the results of IT projects. And he helps people (re)learn how to visualize their ideas through sketch-noting and graphic recording so they can communicate those ideas more effectively, help each other to solve problems, and have lots of fun. Now, let’s chat with Laurens. Key Lessons: How entrepreneurs can use sketch-noting to convey their message in a powerful way. The best way to learn sketch-noting. The best branding strategy for your business Important Links & Mentions in this episode: Rachel Smith's TEDx talk:  https://youtu.be/3tJPeumHNLY (https://youtu.be/3tJPeumHNLY) Mike Rohde's Sketchnote Army:  http://sketchnotearmy.com (http://sketchnotearmy.com/) Doug Neill's Verbal to Visual:  https://youtu.be/AORR9Ud2vsI (https://youtu.be/AORR9Ud2vsI) Sarah Williams' videoscribes:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTMrEE34TtCeZ5Nb_MjMetvGp-xRF4Nk (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTMrEE34TtCeZ5Nb_MjMetvGp-xRF4Nk) Laurens' website: https://bonnema.ink (https://bonnema.ink/)

In this episode of NibSqueak, we talk with Mr. Mike Rohde, leader of the Sketchnote Army, author of The Sketchnote Handbook, and all around awesome guy.

Welcome to the NL Sketchnoting, Graphic Recording, and Visual Thinking podcast where we celebrate the lives and work of visual thinkers and allow them to showcase things they are enthusiastic about!  Today, I'm talking to none other than Mike Rohde, a designer, author, illustrator, and sketchnoter, living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a passion for simple and usable design solutions. Mike is sort of my hero, because as you know: I like to sketchnote.  Interestingly, in this interview, we don't actually talk about sketchnoting until about half-way. We talk first about what got Mike there.  Want to learn more about sketchnoting? Read Mike's blog, his tweets, and of course his books, The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook. Also, check out The Sketchnote Army for examples of awesome sketchnotes around the world of all different skill-levels.  Pro-tip: Sign-up for Mike's newsletter to get tips on sketchnoting and creativity for free!   Want to subscribe to the NL Sketchnoting, Graphic Recording, and Visual Thinking Podcast? Subscribe via iTunes, or Stitcher. Your feedback is appreciated. Please leave your comments in the shownotes. Better yet, send in a voice message so we can put you ON the show! Credits The sounds used for podcast imaging are created by audionautix, musicradiocreative, and premiumbeat. All interviews were recorded in stereo with a Zoom H2N or in double mono with a Marantz Pro PMD661 recorder using a handheld AKG D230 dynamic mic, a Rode NTG2 condenser mic on a boompole, or a KEL HM-1 condenser mic on a mic arm resulting in a 96.0 kHz, 24-bit WAV file. Editing was done on a Macbook Pro using LogicPro X with iZotope RX 4, Alloy2, Nectar 2, and Ozone 6. Post production was done using Auphonic resulting in the final MP3 file for upload to Libsyn and distribution through iTunes and Stitcher.

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Mike Rohde is a designer and an author, but he's probably best known for illustrating the 37signals books. Mike is now building his own products: The Sketchnote Handbook, and the Sketchnote Workbook.