More Live Scribing

Updated Sept 2025.

What is Live scribing?

'Live scribing' is art created during a live event. It has other names like visual minutes, sketch noting, graphic recording and graphic facilitation.

It's capturing an event as it happens with engaging, dynamic and colourful visuals. More than that, it's a great way to engage, educate audiences and support team learning.

Live scribing is;

• Capturing a speaker's words as visuals as they deliver their talk at a conference
• Working with a team at a company away day, turning feedback into posters
• Visualising a company's core values from spoken notes, turning them into highly polished illustrations

Live art is a great way to create more engagement, helping teams or attendees retain information once an event has taken place. As you may know, 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual.

A great way to enhance the impact of an event, helping attendees retain what they have seen and heard.

With the live art I create for clients, all artwork is owned by the clients once it has been created, and can be reused however they like. Often on office walls or social media.

Clients include:

How does live art work?

Above are photos from a diverse range of events; a nursing lecture, a team building day and a conference on tech research at Newcastle University for the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

Live scribing is used for a wide range of events, and I'm always happy to suggest ideas on how best it can be used. If you think it might be useful for your event but are not sure how, I'm always happy to chat and offer suggestions.

Some photos from an event at Z-arts & MADE in Old Trafford. 'Exploring The Creative Potential for Manchester to become a UNICEF Child-Friendly City'.

Other images from live art events;

Previous clients I've created live art for include;

• Biffa
• Digital Manchester
• Roche
• Hologic
• NIHR - National Institute for Health and Care Research
• UK BCorp Conference
• National Fire Chiefs Conference
• National Deaf Society
• North East Combined Authority
• Manchester City Council
• University of Manchester
• Willmott Dixon Construction
• Z-Arts

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photos by Lizzie Henshaw / NIHR