What is graphic facilitation?
Graphic facilitation is the process of drawing content summaries, maps, and strategies in real-time. We work alongside meeting facilitators to create visual notes: hand-drawn representations of your content drawn live in meetings, conferences, seminars, and more.
Incorporating visual notes into your meeting facilitation is a perfect way to turn meetings into productive sessions for idea generation, team alignment, and strategic planning.
Why graphic facilitation?
Focus Meetings
The excitement of live drawing prevents boredom
Solve Problems
Seeing your content drawn out encourages more creative ideation
Keep Momentum
Re-engage your people to take action after your meeting or presentation ends
Spark Collaboration
Encourage more creativity and cooperation with visual facilitation
Ready to transform the way you work?
Graphic facilitation services
Visual notes
Also known as graphic recording or scribing, visual notes are drawn in real-time using simple words and pictures.
- Perfect for wowing audiences at live events like meetings
- Drawn live in the room at your event
- Digital versions are provided in a high-resolution format
Virtual visual notes
Digital visual notes have the same benefits as regular visual notes, but are created live on a digital drawing tablet.
- Project at any scale and proportion for large audiences
- Connect virtually for webinars
- Any time, any place
- Easy to share right after an event
Engagement visuals
You pose a question to your audience, we draw their answers. People are delighted when they see their ideas come to life, live.
- Attract attention at trade shows
- Collect feedback from your target audiences
- Engage people at fundraising events
Living murals
A large-scale combination of live visual notes and pre-determined content that's drawn live on-site.
- Fill an event space in a dramatic and meaningful way
- Communicates your key messages
- Perfect as a gathering place for discussion and ideation
Workshops
Bring the methodology behind graphic facilitation to your team.
- Custom classes for all people
- Improves memory and cognition
- Teams communicate better
- Taught by leading graphic facilitation practitioners
Our artists are ready to support you!
Learn how visual facilitation can transform your organization’s creative collaboration.
Graphic facilitation engages everyone
Think of us as your visual communication partner. The companies we work with know that visuals are the key to engaging employees and customers. We help our clients communicate their ideas and create engaging experiences through live visual note-taking, hand-drawn illustrations, and animated videos.
Graphic facilitation creates real impact
Before Ink Factory, our founders worked at management consulting firms where they helped large corporations solve problems and find new and better ways to work. Because of this, we “get” what clients are looking for:
Show tangible results. Graphic facilitation does a lot more than up the cool factor of a meeting. That’s why we give clients the tools needed to create a measurable impact before, during and after.
Personalized solutions that set you apart. That’s why we work with facilitators to develop custom visual experiences for every client. No cookie-cutter ideas here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you work on non-traditional materials (i.e whiteboard or walls)
Yes! For most of our live events, we use a recyclable artist board called EagleCell. We can also work on whiteboards. Want something else? We will consult with you to find the most interesting or appropriate surface for your visual notes.
Can I have multiple graphic facilitation artists?
Yes! For visual note-taking live events, we charge per artist, per day. Your project manager will let you know if the amount of content you want to capture, or if the visuals you want to generate will require more than one artist. If you have breakout sessions happening concurrently that you want to be captured, you’ll definitely need more than one artist!
Do you travel to events?
We love to travel! We have worked all over the world and are experts when it comes to traveling to meet our clients. It’s best to contact us as soon as possible so that we can start planning the support and get travel accommodations locked in–these costs are not included in our day rate.
Our graphic facilitation work
you talk. we draw. it’s awesome.
Learn more about what graphic facilitation can bring to your organization.