We know that insurance as a sole trader can be costly—especially when you land that occasional big client who insists on Professional Indemnity insurance. That one can be a doozy! Well, today we have big news: if you are Professional Member of the GRA, your membership now includes: Public Liability insurance up to $20,000,000 (through (more…)
In one of our recent Lunch & Learn sessions, Matthew Magain from Sketch Group joined us with one of his clients, Anika Dell from the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety. Together they talked about some of the community forum events that they’ve partnered on that have utilised the online collaboration tool MURAL and (more…)
In this week’s Lunch and Learn, we deep-dived into the Scribe Video process, tools, workflow tricks and learnt how to streamline production for video producers. Packed full with seasoned Graphic Recorders, their lessons learnt and time wormholes to avoid, this session had so many juicy hacks to help nail your next animation project.
Mentorships come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Formal, informal, ongoing, one-off… There is no one way to do mentorship, but there are a few general tips we can all leverage for great mentoring experiences from both sides. GRA Members have an incredible resource in the network of Professional and Associate Members, the Knowledge (more…)
It’s been another ‘unprecedented’ year as the pandemic continued to surge and disrupt the way we work and live. Despite the unending lockdowns, draining zoom meetings and all-day trackiedacks, our community has continued to thrive, innovate, and search for new solutions amidst the virtual landscape. From our Lunch and Learns, we tackled all areas of (more…)
When Marcel and I founded the VizConf conference series back in 2018, we had a vision to bring together the visual thinking community in Australia. We’d both attended big conferences in the USA and Europe, and believed that the timing was right—and the community was ready—to have a conference of its own. We knew there (more…)
If you’re reading this, then the new Graphic Recorders Australia website is live, and that’s a pretty exciting milestone for our fledgling organisation—both in terms of benefits for you as a member as well as improving administration and operations for your hard-working volunteer committee. Yep, this is more than just putting a lick of paint (more…)
Graphic storytellers/recorders have valuable interpretive skills and can magic technical jargon into easily synthesised visual language. This communication expertise brings immense value to numerous fields, work places and organisations. Graphic by Dr Pat Grant, as part of a survey ‘Graphic Story Tellers at Work’ commissioned by the Australia Council.
Kathryn is a Visualisation Practitioner based in Melbourne. An experienced Graphic Recorder, Kathryn is an excellent multitasker, active listener, fluid thinker, and high-level synthesiser of information. She transforms key ideas into visual metaphors and clarifies information through visualisation. Her illustrations are colourful, dynamic, engaging and are guaranteed to captivate event attendees, ignite productive meetings and (more…)
Sally Mazák is a graphic designer with over 20 years professional experience in government and corporate design, illustration, strategic visualisation, specialist creativity coaching and workshop design. Graphic recording is the perfect intersection of her skills and appetite for communicating complex information with simplicity. She infuses her graphic recording with a designer’s eye and a modern (more…)
