Graphic Recording by Sam Hester, The 23rd Story
Hi everyone!
Here's a note to let you know that I'm updating my website to include a new page in the "Graphic Recording" menu: a page about upcoming workshops. If you're interested in participating in a workshop and learning more about how to incorporate graphic recording into your own practice, check this blog for news, follow me on Twitter, or send me a note, to find out about opportunities!
While I'm here, I also wanted to say:
Here's a note to let you know that I'm updating my website to include a new page in the "Graphic Recording" menu: a page about upcoming workshops. If you're interested in participating in a workshop and learning more about how to incorporate graphic recording into your own practice, check this blog for news, follow me on Twitter, or send me a note, to find out about opportunities!
While I'm here, I also wanted to say:
1. THANKS for all the kindness and support I've received over the past months and years, for the work I've been doing. I am thrilled to see that there's so much interest in graphic recording, and visual practice in general. All of you practitioners, scribblers and scribes, mentors and fans, clients and signal-boosters, are making this happen - and it's a privilege to help grow this movement with you.
2. I've been working as a graphic recorder since 2013. Since then, my own understanding of the field in general, and of my own work in particular, has been evolving. On this website, I've tried to provide a general description of graphic recording, but the more I understand what I'm doing, the more I feel it's time for me to say a little more about what's special about my practice in particular and what makes my work different than what others in the field are doing. Within the field of graphic facilitation, there are a wide range of incredible talents which are well suited to providing different services - and after 5 years and around 300 projects, I'm starting to get a feeling for how I fit into the big picture.
I'm well aware that my site could use some updating. That's going to be my project this summer, and I hope to include some new information about how I operate, what you can expect from a client's perspective. So, please stay tuned for more in the coming months - and thanks again for stopping by!
-- sam
2. I've been working as a graphic recorder since 2013. Since then, my own understanding of the field in general, and of my own work in particular, has been evolving. On this website, I've tried to provide a general description of graphic recording, but the more I understand what I'm doing, the more I feel it's time for me to say a little more about what's special about my practice in particular and what makes my work different than what others in the field are doing. Within the field of graphic facilitation, there are a wide range of incredible talents which are well suited to providing different services - and after 5 years and around 300 projects, I'm starting to get a feeling for how I fit into the big picture.
I'm well aware that my site could use some updating. That's going to be my project this summer, and I hope to include some new information about how I operate, what you can expect from a client's perspective. So, please stay tuned for more in the coming months - and thanks again for stopping by!
-- sam
Photo credit: Dave Palmer
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The short answer:
I'll take illustrated notes while you talk. It's fun to watch, and you get to keep the work when it's done!! A better answer: Graphic recording is an innovative way of creating interest and engagement at just about any kind of event. It caters to different learning approaches, and fosters creative and often unexpected feedback and collaborations. The visual record creates a "collective memory" of the event and promotes validation among project participants. Details from the graphic recording can also give life to the material long after the event. The images can be used to make print and web documents more vivid and accessible. |
There are graphic recorders and graphic facilitators all over the world! To learn more, check out the International Forum of Visual Practitioners website. You might also like this excellent "quick guide to graphic recording" posted by world-class practitioners ImageThink.
As a visual practitioner based in Calgary, Canada, I've developed my own brand of graphic recording, informed by my own particular skill set, as well as the needs of Alberta organizations. If you're interested in my own practice, I can point you towards this video, created as a school project by SAIT photojournalism student River Cha. River had to make a three-minute documentary, and she picked graphic recording as her subject! Being featured in her short film was a treat for me. I'm looking forward to seeing what she creates next!
As a visual practitioner based in Calgary, Canada, I've developed my own brand of graphic recording, informed by my own particular skill set, as well as the needs of Alberta organizations. If you're interested in my own practice, I can point you towards this video, created as a school project by SAIT photojournalism student River Cha. River had to make a three-minute documentary, and she picked graphic recording as her subject! Being featured in her short film was a treat for me. I'm looking forward to seeing what she creates next!
The 23rd Story from River Yeeun Cha on Vimeo.
To see more examples of my work, you can take a look at my photo gallery. Some work gets posted on my blog, and some on Twitter.
You can find out more about me and my Calgary-based practice here. Or, please contact me and I will be sure to get in touch with you.
Thanks!
You can find out more about me and my Calgary-based practice here. Or, please contact me and I will be sure to get in touch with you.
Thanks!
