Sketchnote handbook pdf download

I love you! As your dad, I hope my work makes you proud. Thanks for believing in me and pitching my book idea just minutes a f t e r dinner. Thanks for considering my book idea, selling it to your team, and keeping me on track and encouraged through the long, hard creation process. Most important, thanks for helping me create something truly unique and different.

Thanks for keeping me on my toes and making my prose look so good. Thanks for trusting me and Seal Team Sketchnote as we worked. Everyone was professional cknd so easy to work with. I couldn't have asked for a better agent.

Thanks f o r capturing my vision and helping me "Be Mike" for the camera. Your typefaces have saved me many long hours of drawing every letter by hand. Thanks f o r making the video script happen when I hact no idea how to even begin the process. Your music adds an important richness and positive vibe to the video. I've been honored to call you a friend and appreciate your guidance in the creation of my f i r s t book. This is A better book because of your help. I'm excited to see where our community will go and how it will grow once this book reaches new readers and viewers.

That passion, along with his lifelong habit of recording concepts and observations through sketching and doodling, inspired him to develop sketchnotes—a practical art that translates simple and complex ideas into easily recalled bits o f information. As a sketchnoter, Mike provides live, real-time sketchnotes of events, meetings, and experiences in venues across the United States.

In his illustration practice, Mike uses his unique drawing style to amplify and clarify ideas. Community and sharing are important cornerstones of Mike's philosophy, as evidenced by the creation of The Sketchnote Army, w e b s i t e dedicated to finding and showcasing sketchnotes and sketchnoters from around the world.

Mike has also shared his thinking, design process, and samples of his design and illustration work at his personal website, rohdesign. Mike lives with his wife, Gail, and children, Nathckn, Linnea, and Landon, just outside of Milwaukee. He's an avid Green Bay Packers fan.

Learn more about Mike at rohdesign. Fed up. Thinking back, I'm not sure how note taking had become such a burden.

In high school and college, I enjoyed expressing ideas visuallti—easily blending words with drawings, diagrams, cknd typography in my notebooks. Somewhere in the process of growing up and getting ajob, I lost my way. The relaxed, visual note-taking approach from my college days had morphed into a fanatically detailed, text-only death march. Ironically, I became a great note taker who couldn't stand taking notes. The solution to my note-taking problem was a blank pocket Moleskine, stacked neatly on my bookshelf.

I'd bought it on Ck whim A few months before and I realized t h a t its small size, paired with an unerasabte pen, could be a perfect way to challenge my overly detailed, note-taking mind-set.

In January , I brought my Moleskine and a gel pen to Chicago f o r a conference to try sketchnoting. Could I take fewer but better notes?

If I focused on quality, could I live with seeing my mistakes in pen? Would adding drawings to my notes bring back my joy of note taking? Could taking notes become fun again? The answer to these questions wcks a resounding yes! As I captured my f i r s t sketchnotes, I was able to stow down and listen f o r big ideas.

I loved the no-turning-back attitude of using a pen. Best of all, I had ck great time taking notes again. Ever since that mind-altering experience, I've been working hard through my Wog, The Sketchnote Army, and at live presentations and workshops to share my passion for sketchnoting. I take great pleasure in talking About why sketchnoting enables you to take better notes, explaining how to create sketchnotes, and persuading people to give sketchnoting a try. I want you to enjoy taking notes as much as I do, and I hope that by the end of this book you will.

Whether you believe you can or can't draw, I'm here to tell you that anyone who can make marks on paper can benefit from this book. Even if you can't draw a straight line, you can learn to sketchnote with a little practice.

Rather thool write a lot of words ckbout sketchnoting, I decided that if I was going to talk the talk, I'd better walk the walk or, nlaybe, sketch the sketch? So, I created the entire book as one, long, fun—hopefully inspiring—itlustration. Tihs rjaTATuell 1 oft mg title page. E Rkoilykti , A compfoted title r o o d g to go.

I t t r ts o 1 o , complete my title before the s , 9 0 like to shoo 0. I'm amazed and energized by the wide variety of people all over the world who create and actively share their sketchnotes. I love the sense of community that has sprung up around this process, and I've made a great many friends through sharing and discussing sketchnotes online and at conferences. I invited IS of these friends—leading sketchnoters from around the world—to each create a two-page spread for this book that shares a bit about who they are, how they came to sketchnoting, and a tip or two to help you take better notes.

What I hope you'll notice from looking at their work at the end of each cho,pter is that everyone sees the world differently; everyone processes information d i ff e r e n t l y ; everyone has their own, unique style, and that's part of what makes sketchnoting so much fun! There's no right way Or wrong wcty to do it. I will teckch you the basic principles of sketchnoting, but the reo,ljoy will come when you start creating sketchnotes and discover how taking notes can unleash your creativity and make paying attention, even at the most boring meetings, something you look forward to doing.

You can view more of my work and contact me through my personal website at rohdesign-com or on Twitter at twitter. I look forward to hearing what you think of the book and learning about your sketchnoting experiences. IT'S Til :. Regardless of your drawing ability or inability! Rohde addresses most people's fear of drawing by showing, step-by-step, how to quickly draw people, faces, type, and simple objects for effective and fast sketchnoting.

By the end of this video, you'll be itching to attend a meeting just so you can draw about it. Running Time: 1h 10m. I highly recommend The Sketchnote Handbook Video Edition because it's the best value, with both the custom illustrated book and comprehensive video series working together to teach you sketchnoting.

Amazon Canada. Amazon UK. Eyrolles in French. MITP in German. This fully-illustrated sequel to The Sketchnote Handbook shows you how you to use sketchnotes to brainstorm ideas, plan projects, document processes, record your travels, start a visual food journal. Details on The Sketchnote Workbook.

Mike Rohde is a designer, author, teacher, and illustrator. This book is a guide for teachers about getting your students drawing and sketching to learn visually. Whether in elementary school or high school, neuroscience has shown that visual learning is a very effective way to retain information. The techniques in this book will help you work with your students in novel ways to retain information.

Visual note-taking can be used with diverse learners; all ages; and those who have no drawing experience. Teachers are provided with a library of images and concepts to steal, tweak, and use in any way in their classrooms. The book is liberally illustrated with student examples from elementary and high school students alike. This book teaches you how to use them well - and have a bit of fun along the way.

The pencil is a single tool that has the power to reset mindsets, enhance thinking, improve retention, recall, and comprehension, calm us and make us smile REPEAT this creative epiphany tomorrow to bring out the best in yourself, your teaching, your children, and your students! Sylvia Duckworth is a Canadian teacher whose sketchnotes have taken social media by storm. Her drawings provide clarity and provoke dialogue on many topics related to education.

This book contains of her most popular sketchnotes with links to the original downloads that can be used in class or shared with colleagues. Interspersed throughout the book are Sylvia's reflections on each drawing and what motivated her to create them, in addition to commentary from other educators who inspired the sketchnotes.

To see samples of the drawings in this book, please visit sites. This book provides everything you need to get started with visual notetaking. Tools, inspiration, how to start, ways to practice, and ways to continue learning. It provides the research behind the benefits of using this tool for your own learning, as well as with your students.

This note taking technique can be used by K educators and beyond. The information is applicable to all grade levels and subject areas. Use eye-popping visual tools to energize your people! Just as social networking has reclaimed the Internet for human interactivity and co-creation, the visual meetings movement is reclaiming creativity, productivity, and playful exchange for serious work in groups.

Visual Meetings explains how anyone can implement powerful visual tools, and how these tools are being used in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to facilitate both face-to-face and virtual group work. This dynamic and richly illustrated resource gives meeting leaders, presenters, and consultants a slew of exciting tricks and tools, including Graphic recording, visual planning, story boarding, graphic templates, idea mapping, etc.

Creative ways to energize team building, sales presentations, staff meetings, strategy sessions, brainstorming, and more Getting beyond paper and whiteboards to engage new media platforms Understanding emerging visual language for leading groups Unlocking formerly untapped creative resources for business success, Visual Meetings will help you and your team communicate ideas more effectively and engagingly.

What if you could make listening to lectures, lessons or presentations exciting? What if you took notes in a way that you wanted to review your notes again and again? Sound impossible! Make it possible using visual note taking techniques.