mike rohde : sketchnotes

Posted: February 2nd, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: illustration, lettering and fonts, paper | 4 Comments »

I’m so grateful to have Mike Rohde as a new friend thanks to Summit Series in Squaw Valley last week. Mike is insanely talented and creates sketchnotes — visual note-taking captured in beautiful hand-drawn lettering and illustration. His work hones in on the core concepts that he hears in meetings, conferences and workshops. Here are some images of his work along with a short video so that you can learn more about how he got started. Awesome guy!

4 Comments on “mike rohde : sketchnotes”

  1. 1 Matt said at 12:52 pm on February 2nd, 2012:

    Hi Bryn, this reminds me of a project we did at Digital Divide Data to digitize Theo Brown’s diaries for the Worcester Polytechnic archives. Here are some samples:

    http://theo.wpi.edu/Collection/detail.lasso?id=7337&clientcode=1944

    http://theo.wpi.edu/Collection/detail.lasso?id=7645&clientcode=1944

    Its the most amazing combination of writing, sketching and scrap book stuff I’ve ever seen.

  2. 2 Bryn said at 12:56 pm on February 2nd, 2012:

    Wow, Matt, you’re right, these are amazing!

  3. 3 Mike Rohde said at 9:50 am on February 6th, 2012:

    Bryn, thanks for featuring my work and your kind words about it. It was great seeing you creating at Summit Basecamp as well – long live hand-drawn lettering!

  4. 4 Barbara said at 7:04 pm on February 14th, 2012:

    Bryn! Wow, thanks for the wonderful introduction to Mike’s beautiful work. The sketchnote of Milton Glaser’s quote is so perfect. I love it.

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