We love going to events and capturing the insights from speakers and panels. But what about the audience?

Business books are not all books you buy in the airport in the hope that you will read them on a flight and have a revolutionary idea by the time you land. But then spend the whole thing watching a film on a tiny screen

Perhaps you are thinking about having a conference illustrator attend your event. Perhaps you have an idea that a scribe might attend your workshop. Or that someone might come and draw your meeting. So what on earth is Graphic Recording?

Using an iPad to visualise an in person conference works really well - the impact of the drawing projected on screens is profound.

Live Illustration visually recorded many of the meetings throughout the pandemic. All of our scribes agreed it was a relief to get a global, science based and realistic view on the pandemic as it happened. We have a huge catalogue of images tracking the pandemic, from before we had vaccines, to discussions about ‘long covid’ and through to the global rollout. And a few are shown with this post.

When Live Illustration first started off we used to show up at TEDx events and illustrate all sorts of different talks. In fact, illustrating a TED talk has become a great standby to hone one's skills.

We created a series of illustrations for UNICEF as they published information on how policy makers can combat childhood obesity worldwide.

What happens at a conference