Chapter 1: What Are Sketchnotes?
Chapter 2: Why Sketchnote?
Chapter 3: Listen Up
Chapter 4: The Sketchnoting Process
Chapter 5: Types of Sketchnotes
Chapter 6: Sketchnote Strategies
Chapter 7: Sketchnoting Techniques
Mike Rohde is an experience and interface designer who has created usable and compelling applications for mobile, web, and dedicated devices. Rohde turned to experience design after 10 years as a successful print graphic designer where he first developed his sketchnote approach and technique. Because of his sketchnote work, Rohde has been hired to illustrate REWORK, the 37signals business book, collaborate on the illustration of a TEDMED notebook, and he has been hired to create live sketchnotes for a variety of conferences and events, including Chick-fil-A Leadercast, SXSW Interactive, An Event Apart, and SEED.
“Entertaining and memorable (just like sketchnotes), this
fast-reading, fact-packed book by the godfather of sketchnoting
provides everything you and your team need to know about the
creative, mnemonic, and business benefits of this brilliant new
method of note taking.” —Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with
Web Standards
“The perfect introduction to visual note taking and the most useful
how-to guide I’ve ever read, no contest.” —Josh Kaufman, author of
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
“Mike Rohde has taken his original, fun, and smart approach to note
taking and broken it down into simple, clear steps. Now anyone can
use sketchnotes to capture ideas—even you and me.” —Chris
Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup
“I hear a lot of people talk about sketchnoting, visual thinking,
and how best to harness your ideas. Mike Rohde is the real deal.
When Mike Rohde puts pencil and ink to paper, you should damn well
be paying attention.” —Shawn O'Keefe, SXSW Interactive Festival
Producer
“Anyone who utilizes the practical methodology Mike demonstrates in
this book will not only improve their retention regarding the
collating of notes, they'll fundamentally increase their overall
creative potential as well. As Saul Bass so eloquently stated,
‘Design is thinking made visual,’ and sketchnotes are an ideal way
to archive intellectual assets and flesh them out via simple
drawing methods. This is a profoundly simple book, yet the results
will be simply profound because it equips anyone to be able to do
this.” -Von Glitschka, Glitschka Studios
“Sketchnotes are a great way to capture the highlights of an idea
in a way that'll naturally work for your brain. Nobody will teach
you how to do it better than Mike. —David Heinemeier Hansson,
37signals and co-author of REWORK
“I use sketchnoting as a way to calm my brain—and help me focus on
the task at hand—while it is trying to run off without me. With The
Sketchnote Handbook, Mike gives you the backstory and the method to
creating truly beautiful notes. It’s a marvel to behold.” —Myke
Hurley, founder of the 70Decibels network
“Mike Rohde practices what he preaches. This beautiful, simple book
has everything you need to sketchnote like a pro! The Sketchnote
Handbook is destined to be the definitive guide to a new,
practical, and innovative discipline.” —Dave Gray, X-PLANE, author
of The Connected Company and co-author of Gamestorming
“Something magical happens when you take notes with pictures and
words together. In this friendly, encouraging book, sketchnote
wizard Mike Rohde shares his secrets so that anybody can steal his
tricks for capturing ideas with pen and paper.” —Austin Kleon,
author of Steal Like an Artist
“The Sketchnote Handbook is an informative, hands-on book designed
to quickly share the principles of sketchnoting, so you can get
right to creating sketchnotes for yourself. Mike’s fun,
illustrative style energizes you to pick up a pen and sketchnote!”
—Nancy Duarte, CEO Duarte Inc, best-selling author of Resonate and
Slide:ology
“This book is not really a book. It’s a tool kit for learning a new
and better way of capturing and understanding information, and it’s
perfectly aligned with the way our brains actually work. If you’re
a student, or a teacher, or a businessperson, this book has the
potential to change the way you learn, and the way you think.”
—Daniel Coyle, The New York Times best-selling author of The Talent
Code and The Little Book of Talent
“Never fear note taking again. Rohde demystifies the practice and
makes it accessible to everyone. Your brain will thank him later.”
—Sunni Brown, co-author of Gamestorming
“The Sketchnote Handbook is a call to fully engage and enhance the
big concepts and key ideas we are exposed to at conferences, in
meetings, and daily life. Doodles are no longer a dirty word! Mike
Rohde’s easy examples and straightforward explanations make it
accessible for anyone. This is a revolution that takes simple note
taking to another plateau, turning it into actionable art.”
—Patrick Rhone, author of Keeping It Straight and enough
“For The Sketchnoting Handbook, Mike uses his famous talent of
distilling and illustrating other people’s ideas, and he shares
some ideas of his own—how to create your own awesome sketchnotes.
Not only is Mike a clever illustrator, he’s also an approachable
and clear communicator. His book is equal parts fun and
instruction.” —Shawn Blanc, shawnblanc.net
“There are great storytellers, and there are great artists. And
then there is Mike Rohde: a magnificent blend of the two. What Mike
has made into a professional art form we once did as children—rely
on a blend of visuals and words to communicate. We’ve since been
pulled too far in the direction of words, and Mike’s book is here
to help us reawaken the full range of our abilities.” —Leslie
Bradshaw, co-founder, president, and COO of JESS3
“The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about
note taking. It’s about receiving and processing the world in a
more complete and insightful way. It’s a software upgrade for your
brain.
For those who’ve been shamed into thinking that drawing is either
beyond them or beneath them, this book offers a whole new way of
mastering the daily onslaught of information and turning it into
raw material for discovery. (For those of us who’ve done this all
our lives, the book provides a beautifully conceived and lovingly
illustrated treat, and a great gift for our left-brained friends.)”
—Stefan G. Bucher, creator of dailymonster.com, author of 344
Questions: The Creative Person’s Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight,
Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment
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