Communicating Visually
Half-day Workshop, Wednesday 28 August (morning) - buy tickets here
This is for everybody – especially for those who say “I can’t draw!”.
Come and join like-minded people in building confidence in communicating visually.
This will be a practical pen-in-hand session with Meld Studios designers, Zoe and Harold, to really help you be a visual communicator.
Too often in our work lives, we find ourselves typing out reports, slide decks, and proposals because we’re simply used to using words to communicate what we’re thinking.
A sketch can take a few seconds and can be just as, if not more engaging, and easier for our brains to digest. Working with hundreds of businesses and industries throughout the last 10 years, we at Meld Studios get a special feeling every time a client has told us how much they value our visuals for making complex business processes, concepts and ideas, so much more tangible and simple.
In this workshop, you’ll develop the visual skills that help to:
- Express your thinking
- Bring life to your ideas, concepts, strategies, processes – so you get more buy-in
- Use visuals and sketching to uncover relationships, problems, and opportunities
- Genuinely capture your stakeholders’ attention and improve their understanding
- Represent complex ideas in a quick, tangible, and cost-effective way.
In order to do this, the session will cover:
- Building your own library of visuals to draw upon
- Learning some techniques to visually express flows, processes, journeys, and relationships
- Illustrating visual stories by combining your library with knowledge of flows and relationships, guided in a step-by-step manner
- Practising how to talk through and showcase your visual story
- Illustrating an aspect of your work you see the value in visualising (e.g., data, systems, flows, processes, concepts, etc).
WHAT TO BRING
- Think about some of the scenarios you think visual skills might help you in your job or personal life.
- A fun, open-minded attitude! Important is the ability to laugh at yourself, encourage others, and learn something new.
Come along for what should be an exciting, hands-on session.