Live Illustration

Visual Note Taking for Events

No more stale stuffy corporate vibes

Hand-drawn visuals that tell the story of your event as it happens…

What is Visual Note Taking?

Visual note taking = note taking, but illustrative. We draw while people talk! It’s all happening totally live, during the event. We’re sketching ideas and the themes in real-time.

Visual brains LOVE visual notes.

Yes, it’s very cool. (We’re biased.)

Why Use Visual Notes at Your Event?

Most of our clients hire a live event illustrator because they want to keep everyone awake and engaged.

Visual notes are also a BRILLIANT thing to use after your event.

We’ve seen our illustrations repurposed in thank-you packs, posted on social media. That timelapse video - which we provide as standard - always goes down a treat on LinkedIn.

Visual notes are scientifically proven to be:

  • Way easier to understand

  • Processed 60,000x faster than text alone 🤯

  • 400% more likely to be remembered by your audience

  • Accessible AF

FAQs

When are Visual Notes Useful?

Visual notes are useful any time you’re planning an event that you’d like people to remember.

Live illustrated events are hard to forget!

Usually, you’ll find us drawing live at conferences, panels, important meetings, workshops, webinars, project wrap-ups and away days.

How do you work, Katie?

I lead a small (but perfectly formed UK-based team) of live illustrators and graphic recorders, and all of our visual note taking is done remotely - which makes things easier, more flexible, and better for the planet. You’ll share a link to your event (Zoom, Teams, whuddeva), and we’ll dial in to create hand-drawn digital visual notes in real time.

You’ll get a set of beautiful & useful, clear illustrations that capture the key messages from your event, plus a timelapse video so you can see the drawing unfold.

What’s included when I hire Illustrated Live to create visual notes at my event?

  • Remote graphic recording during your live event

  • All briefing calls

  • Post-event edits to get your illustration looking ✨ perfect ✨

  • A custom colour palette (based on your branding guidelines/event theme)

  • High-res digital visual notes (.jpeg)

  • A time-lapse video (.mp4) showing the illustration being made

  • Full licence to share the images and videos

  • Final files are delivered within 15 to 30 minutes of the event ending, and you can see the drawings happening live if that fits in with your event logistics. We can discuss all of those details once you get in touch.

Can I see more examples of visual notes?

We thought you’d never ask! Here you go:

Live illustration and visual note taking by UK-based graphic recorder Katie Chappell

Contact Illustrated Live

Get in touch - we’d love to hear about your event. If it’s easier to email, you can contact hello@katiechappell.com directly.

Speak soon!

x Katie & team

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