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Art of Visual Notetaking

An interactive guide to visual communication and sketchnoting
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The Art of Visual Notetaking by Emily Mills is a practical guide to sketchnoting, a creative technique for capturing information visually. The book teaches how to design effective layouts, create focal points, and add decorative doodles, making note-taking both engaging and memorable. Suitable for journaling, classes, conferences, and project planning, it emphasises that no advanced drawing skills are neededβ€”just simple shapes, lines, and text to communicate ideas clearly. With expert guidance and helpful "Getting Started" icon pages, readers learn to personalise their visual notes across various contexts.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is ideal for students, professionals, and anyone interested in enhancing their note-taking with creative visual methods. It's especially useful for those looking to improve retention and organisation without requiring artistic expertise.

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Improve your bullet journals, to-do lists, class notes, and everything in between with The Art of Visual Notetaking and its unique approach to taking notes in the twenty-first century.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

The Art of Visual Notetaking is a resource for learning the art of sketchnoting, including how to create layouts, focal points, embellishments, and doodles for inspired notetaking, journaling, and creative visual expression.

Visual notetaking is the perfect skill for journaling, class lectures, conferences, and any other time that retaining information is key. Also referred to as sketchnoting, visual notetaking is ideal for documenting processes, planning projects, outlining ideas, and capturing information. As you'll learn in The Art of Visual Notetaking, this approach doesn't require advanced drawing or hand-lettering skills; anyone can learn how to use simple lines, connectors, shapes, and text to take dynamic notes.

In The Art of Visual Notetaking, aspiring sketchnoters and journalers will find helpful "Getting Started" pages of icons and badges for common note-taking purposes, with tips and encouragement for creating your own unique icons. You'll discover instruction and how-to techniques, tips, and tutorials that focus on visual notetaking for different settings, from a business meeting, workshop, or convention, to a college lecture or sermon. Expert instruction from a professional sketchnote artist and educator demonstrates how to visually arrange and compile ideas, focal points, and key concepts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633226227

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 March 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Walter Foster Publishing

Illustration: 600 color illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Emily Mills is an artist, entrepreneur, teacher, sometimes vlogger, and creator of SketchnoteAcademy.com, an online training course. When she's not illustrating for her own clients, you can find her traveling and drawing for clients of The Sketch Effect, a visual communication solutions company based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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