Mike Rohde is the creator of Sketchnotes, a method of note-taking that uses a combination of handwriting, drawings, hand-lettering, shapes, and visual elements like arrows, boxes, and lines. The focus is on capturing ideas, not art, and you don’t need any special drawing ability to do it. In fact, Mike has been known to issue “permission to suck at drawing” certificates, encouraging people to practice and develop at their own pace.
He’s a designer, author, teacher, podcaster and illustrator with a passion for not only visualizing ideas, but for teaching people how to think visually and be more creative. He’s fostered a community of enthusiastic sketchnoters, known as The Sketchnote Army, who support and encourage each other online and at in-person events.
Mike’s bestselling book that introduced his technique to the world, The Sketchnote Handbook, just celebrated its ten year publication anniversary and it’s more popular than ever! His follow-up, The Sketchnote Workbook, shows how you can use sketchnotes in your everyday life to capture ideas, plan projects, document processes, and capture memorable experiences.
On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Mike about how he developed his sketchnoting approach for note-taking, the benefit of adding constraints to his process, why the approach is about capturing ideas, not art, and how he fostered the development of a global community of sketchnoters.
Say hi to Mike:
Website - rohdesign.com
Instagram - @rohdesign
Twitter - @rohdesign
Mastodon - @rohdesign
Sketchnote Army website - sketchnotearmy.com
Sketchnote Army podcast - sketchnotearmy.com/podcast
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