WHAT IS GRAPHIC RECORDING?
Big, Bold, Visual Notetaking!
Capture the essence and energy of your event via large-scale illustration
Graphic recording increases participation and engagement, adding clarity as conversation is organized visually. Use as a springboard for brainstorming and creative problem solving, or simply create a memorable experience for everyone in the room.
Graphic recording is particularly useful for workshops and retreats where participants’ feedback, ideas, and opinions are valued.
- Focus your team with a visual record of progress
- Stimulate ideas and increase retention
- Use visual thinking to build consensus; by seeing the same visual cues participants can be united in a larger vision
- Easily share progress outside the meeting as an image or video
David is also available to work remotely, live-streaming graphic recording for your event in tandem with speaker presentations.
MEET THE GRAPHIC FACILITATOR
David Michael Moore
SPECIALIZING IN visual thinking for retreats, conferences, and high-impact meetings.
David has worked as a graphic facilitator for 11 years after starting his own business in 2012. He leads meetings with creativity, building an environment of trust and gratitude with the teams he works with. David has learned to embrace spontaneity and a positivity from many years of performing improv, which is a perfect fit with his in-the-moment work as a facilitator.
A longtime resident of Champaign, David has volunteered to build community and organize events with a focus on creativity and design. He is the former President of The Champaign-Urbana Design Organization (CUDO) and is an experienced graphic designer with clients ranging from universities to city government, non-profits to tech startups.
“David received rave reviews at our recent meeting! In an all day meeting with a lot of technical content, it’s easy to get lost. David’s illustrations provided a great touchpoint and synthesis of the ideas discussed. It also served as novel content to keep participants engaged during a long day. Some session leaders even asked for the final product to bring back and display in their offices. David’s services were well worth it and I would use him again.”
GRAPHIC RECORDING TIME-LAPSE
Illuminate Your Next Event
with a Graphic Facilitator
David works with permanent marker on 4’ tall paper banners that can be unrolled to any width. He can serve as a graphic recorder or graphic facilitator, depending on whether you have a facilitator or host already for your event. Here’s a quick definition to distinguish these two terms:
- Graphic Recorder David takes the role of a silent partner illustrating the conversation during the event while someone else leads. This is often used for conferences and large gatherings where the finished artwork commemorates the experience.
- Graphic Facilitator David creates an outline based on your objectives and will lead the meeting in a room of 20 or fewer people. The artwork created is a means to reach specific outcomes and supports big-picture thinking that is required for strategy, visioning, and organizational change.
Afterwards the finished banners are often displayed in public spaces to celebrate the collaborative effort and all participants receive digital files of the artwork.
“David’s work is captivating, joyful, and action-inspiring. Thanks to his visual representation of a talk I gave, I’ve received new clients, new employees, and new speaking opportunities. His ability to capture the best of what is being said and turn that into a visually engaging piece of artwork is astonishing. The artwork becomes a point of conversation, and it is so powerful people are called to take action.
I highly recommend working with David. He has the highest level of integrity and goes above and beyond for his clients.”
WHAT MEETINGS OR EVENTS ARE YOU HIRED FOR?
“David was thoughtful, intentional, and SPOT ON with his work when it came to the big day. He spent 6 hours capturing the story of our training and our participants were delighted, inspired, and reminded in beautiful ways of what they learned. I truly cannot wait to find another opportunity to work with him.”
“Through David’s graphic facilitation of our strategic planning, our board was highly engaged throughout the process, offering creative suggestions on how to move our organization forward. The end result is often referenced when looking at the growth of our organization.”
“Graphic facilitation with David was an excellent experience for our sales team. He was able to capture complex thoughts and ideas and organize them in a lively document that made our team-building exercise extremely entertaining.
I would definitely recommend using graphic facilitation for anyone looking to conduct a memorable meeting or retreat!”
GALLERY OF GRAPHIC FACILITATION BANNERS
FEATURED DESIGN WORK
“When we hired David Moore to manage our departments’ design projects, we got more than professional graphic design services, we got a creative partner throughout the entire process. The quality in appearance and layout is truly impressive. David offers ideas—and delivers a professional design within a commendable time frame. His professional expertise is complemented by the personal element of caring about his clients.”
