Today I went to a symposium about practice-centred research in the arts. I jotted down quite a lot of the presentations and noticed that most of the delegates made entirely written notes. I’ve always combined writing with drawing when I’m taking down information as I find it far easier to remember and it’s much nicer to look at a few drawings interspersed with a bit of text, rather than pages and pages of hand writing. I also like to use different typography to make things stand out. Does anyone else do this? I was surprised that so few were doing it today in a roomful of arts practitioners.
I also like to do some quick portraits of the speakers – they’re not very accurate but it’s enough to jog my memory and remember what they were talking about.
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I take notes with pictures, too. Never occurred to me that others might not…
There seem to be a lot doing it…..
I ALWAYS do this, but sometimes it means I don’t pay attention to what the speaker is going on about…;)
That’s a problem – I get a bit absorbed in the drawing if I’m not careful
I love this kinds stuff. Could stand alone as a blog post.
Thanks Hansi. The websites below have loads more people doing this – it seems to be quite a widespread movement.
I like your notes. You’re ask whether anyone else combines txt and drawing when making notes. Well you might be interested to have at look at these websites
http://sketchnotearmy.com/
http://www.dachisgroup.com/2011/12/the-sketchnote-revolution/
http://sunnibrown.com/doodlerevolution/
http://www.thersa.org/events/rsaanimate
Thank you – that’s really interesting 🙂
Look at you, showing off with your decipherable writing *unfollows immeadiately out of spite*
hahaha – when I combine drawing and writing, my writing is reasonably ok, but when I write on it’s own, it’s awful. I wonder what’s going on there, in my brain? Maybe engaging a different bit because of the drawing aspect?
Your hand behaves when you draw that’s why 🙂
It’s the only time it DOES behave lol
Ah that’s it lol 🙂
These are excellent! I especially love the portraits! 🙂
Thank you – it’s the way I’ve always made notes 🙂