About me
I have been scribing since 1997, when there were just a few scribes globally, and have helped develop this highly visual form of note taking and storytelling into how it is seen today. In that time I have scribed for pretty much every kind of organisation and am still passionate about listening carefully and crafting pictures that get to the heart of what people want to say.
I do not use tired, copy and paste icons to represent ideas or capture generalised themes. I draw people in the situations you describe, with emotion, action, humour and imagination.
Scribing
(digital & paper)
I have created different categories for scribing to help illustrate different approaches but they are not self contained. Scribing is about being flexible and I mix and tailor these broad frameworks to tell each story as effectively as I can. They are also created both digitally, for virtual meetings, or with paper and pens.
RICH PICTURE SCRIBE
The objective here is to turn a subject into a scene that describes all of its different interconnected parts
THE EVENT STORY SCRIBE
Mapping out the main milestones of the conversation and joining them up with flows of discussion. It’s a good way to describe what’s said and retrace some of the logic and detail that got you there.
THE GALLERY SCRIBE
A collection of single cartoons that focus on one piece of the puzzle at a time.
THE GET IT DOWN SCRIBE
Sometimes there’s no time to pause - the scribing is the note-taking. The drawings are simpler but translating on the spot means you can get in a lot of detail.