Why take a visual notes workshop?
Stronger Teams
Stronger TeamsStrengthening communication and learning new skills will bring your people together.
Better Communication
Better CommunicationCommunicating to others visually means they’ll better understand and remember what you’re telling them.
Smarter You
Smarter YouTaking visual notes will help you process and understand information, supporting life-long learning.
Upcoming Online Workshops
July 10 | Online
Drawing for Visual Notes: Your Visual Library
In this 90-minute workshop, we’ll show you how to draw the staple visuals that we use the most often for visual note-taking, as well as how to come up with original visuals in-the-moment.
August 8 or 14 | Online
Visual Note-Taking for (Virtual) Meetings
This 3-hour workshop will cover composition, handwriting, listening, and basic visuals for visual note-taking, and how you should apply that to taking notes in meetings.
August 19 | Online
Organizing Your Visual Notes: Composition
Do you struggle with the layout of your visual notes? What points and visuals go where? Why are some things we capture larger than others? Let us demystify how we arrange our notes into clear compositions in this 90-minute mini-workshop.
September 14-15 | Online
Visual Note-Taking 101
Our online full-day workshop is a visual note-taking bootcamp in six hours over two days. We cover the fundamental skills our artists have practiced and perfected to take your visual note-taking to the next level.
See the full 2020 workshop schedule
Host a Custom Workshop
We'll work with your organization to design a 1, 3, or full-day workshop in-person or online that is tailored to your team's needs. Improve how you communicate at work, spark inspiration and ideation and learn to think through problems visually.
What you'll learn in our visual note workshop
Our industry experts will teach you the building blocks of visual communication.
Listening & filtering
Organizing ideas
Visual Language
Tools
Typography
Drawing Live
Color
Handwriting
What kinds of workshops do you offer?
Our custom workshops are based on your desired time frame. We can do a super quick one-hour overview, a partial day, full-day, or multiple days. Longer workshops include deeper dives into exercises and one-on-one feedback. We also offer public workshops that you can sign up for throughout the year.
Where are the workshops located?
We can host the workshop virtually over Zoom, in our inspirational Chicago studio (with wall-to-wall whiteboards!), travel to you, or work with you to find the perfect venue.
What’s included in the workshop?
Our workshops all include an instructor who is an expert in the field of visual note-taking. The instructor will cover the fundamentals of visual note-taking through hands-on exercises and give feedback to participants on their work as they layer on new skills. We also offer an Ink Factory sketchbook as an optional add-on for each participant to take home after the workshop.
