*Happy audience members taking pictures of our live illustrations at an event we scribed for Morningstar in Amsterdam.*

Oooh, what do we spy here? Could it be Glastonbury?!

N’no, dear reader. This is an audience at a corporate event, snapping pics of our live illustrations on the big screen. How fancy is that?!

As live scribes, this is a view we don’t often see while we’re tucked away behind our iPads elsewhere. This event was a rare exception to the rule, as we were there in person to snap this ourselves - in Amsterdam, of all places! Now that Illustrated Live is going fully remote for 2025, we won’t always get this first-hand sneak peek… but trust us, we know it’s happening!

Wanna get your colleagues just as excited as this lovely lot at your next event? Keep reading…

How to gather the masses in the corporate mosh pit

Listen, we know that work events can be - dare we say it - a biiit of a drag sometimes, right?

But they absolutely do not have to have that reputation!

We’re living in the swankiest of times where digital powers reign supreme, and we all have the power to rewrite the corporate event history books to make our meetings pop.

Because here’s the thing - it’s not that work events don’t have all the ingredients they need to achieve what they need to achieve. They might just need a little added surprise! So a break from the traditional format like live illustration could be your golden ticket to turn up the volume when it comes to impact.

We’re all prepared to hear the inspirational talks, to see the PowerPoints, to stay alert for the Q&As and to scribble some notes down which may or may not make sense when we look back at them in our notepads later on.

But what we might not be prepared for is… Oh, HELLO, what’s this?! A real-time doodle popping up on the screen drawing what is happening as it happens. Huh?!

*A sneak peek of our live illustration for an event we scribed for Morningstar in Amsterdam.*

That exciting “Oooh what’s going on?!” moment of being presented with live illustrations shakes us awake a little bit more. Whether you choose to have them on display throughout, shown at random intervals or left as a total surprise until the end, suddenly, the event content becomes a bit more magnetic, and locks itself in the brain a little firmer. Everyone is sitting up in the seats a teeny bit more. That thing you were trying to remember from earlier is suddenly right in front of you in a way that makes even more sense. Magic is happening!

In short, live scribing doesn’t just illustrate ideas - it amplifies them, and it connects people to ideas in a way words alone cannot.

Then quite often, people will rush to the big screen for a proper look, people will snap some pics and us folks at Illustrated Live get our paparazzi moment!

*Katie, the founder of Illustrated Live working her magic at a Morningstar event in Amsterdam, sitting in front of her live illustrations on the big screen.*

Does this sound like something that could inject a bit of life into your next event? Why not scrap the event merch and splash out on some live illustration instead? We’d love to help you!

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x Illustrated Live