What is Graphic Recording?
Graphic recording is drawing LIVE at an event, either manually with paper and pens, or digitally, hooked up to a screen. Your own event artist, basically!
Why Graphic Recording?
Graphic recording is all about getting the feel of an event, creating visuals with pictures and words which cohesively pull together what your event is about, and what is happening.
It’s a great way for punters to recap easily what they’ve seen and heard. Or explaining to people who couldn't be there what your event and vibe was all about!
Alport Syndrome Alliance
Alport UK hired me for a 4-day project in Cyprus, creating info-graphics for their International Workshop.
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This was a huge job dealing with complex science and distilling it into fun, lay-person terms.
I worked with my colleague Pippa on this one, drawing live in the moment and then collating and tidying the images into to booklet format for use by clinicians and patient journeys.
Birkbeck, University of London
In October 2024, Sophie was thrilled to be the official live recording artist at the launch for the Birkbeck Centre for Research on Environment and Sustainability. This could then be used by Birkbeck to send to all colleagues and launch attendees to recap the event and present compelling calls to action. It is also used on social media to promote this new exciting centre
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"Sophie provided a graphic illustration service for our four-day rare disease scientific conference. She produced a very high quality product, and I would highly recommend her for any corporate/professional graphic illustration work.
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Sophie had extensively researched the complex science being discussed at the conference in advance, creatively translated that into her illustrations, communicated with us throughout the illustration process to ensure the product met the brief. She was a pleasure to work with."
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Hannah Russell, Alport UK
In my own life
As someone who attends conferences and whose husband is involved in much public speaking in church settings, for the last 8 years I've been collating his talks into short infographics and colourful visuals in my notebook, which I often publish on social media
Keswick Ministries
I sat in on multiple evening keynote sessions of Keswick Unconventional, producing art in response to what was being said.
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Each night I captured multiple pieces of art, and was invited to speak briefly of my creative process and how certain words and phrases triggered my art creation.
“We were absolutely blown away by the quality of the graphic record that Sophie produced for the launch event of the Birkbeck Research Centre for Environment and Sustainability. It conveyed the content and spirit of the event so much more clearly than a dry slide set could have done and really captures the imagination.
We loved the images that Sophie had pre-drawn of the main speakers and she captured the key messages really precisely. We were also really impressed by the amount of pre-research that Sophie had done into the centre and the clarity of her vision when we met to discuss details in advance.
Quotes and invoices were also very smooth and Sophie is very easy to work with. 10/10 would definitely hire Sophie again for another event!”
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Becky Briant, Birkbeck, University of London
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