While browsing Drew Dernavich’s website (his woodcut-like comics regularly appear in the New Yorker), I came across a page labelled “Graphic Facilitation.” On this page, Drew has examples of drawings and charts he’s done in real-time, sometimes on foam board, sometimes on white board, to capture the content of lectures, business meetings, and conferences.
Now, I’ve been doing this kind of thing in my notebooks for a while now, but I never knew it had a name, let alone that it’s an emerging field. Check out Peter Durand’s Center for Graphic Facilitation blog. There are registered Graphic Facilitators all around the country that are available for hire to “use visual learning to solve problems.” Here’s how to get started.
[…] with these folks, and a little overwhelmed at the prospect of teaching with them: after all, it’s been over three years since I learned that this stuff even had a […]