December 26, 2017

Matthew Magain - SE04 / EP08

50 minutes

G’day folks, today Mike is joined by Matthew Magain from Melbourne Australia. You might recognize his name from the Sketchnote Handbook. Matthew Shares his journey into sketchnoting and then on to 3D sketchnoting. Find out about how adding a third dimension can add (both in quality and challenges) to your sketchnoting.

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RUNNING ORDER

Matt’s Origin Story from Website design, to graphic facilitation to videos

Sketch Group’s origins and growth

“Good enough for the moment

Graphic recording and facilitation as a performance

Experimenting on the edges

3D sketchnotes

Excitement with some resistance

Sharing 3D sketchnotes in different ways

The importance of walls and lighting

An experience of information

Tools

3 Tips

Outro

TOOLS

Neuland Markers - https://us.neuland.com

Graphic Facilitators guide by Brandy Agerbeck - http://www.loosetooth.com/gfg/

Cintiq - http://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays

Procreate App - https://procreate.art

HTC Vive - https://www.vive.com/

Google Tilt brush - https://www.tiltbrush.com

LINKS

Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/sketchgrp

Matt’s blog post about VR Sketching - https://www.sketchgroup.com.au/blog/vr-sketchnoting-bringing-conversations-to-virtual-life

Cognitive media’s Animated Sketchnote of Dan Pink’s TED talk, Drive - https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

Sketch Group website: http://sketchgroup.com

Web Directions - https://www.webdirections.org

Links on Google Poly to Matt’s VR sketchnotes from the Web Directions Summit conference:

Chris Messina - https://poly.google.com/u/3/view/41qBWkQ8tKH

Amélie Lamont - https://poly.google.com/u/3/view/9da-r8ULRgM

Genevieve Bell - https://poly.google.com/view/aGHfuxtdW0J

Dan Rubin - https://poly.google.com/view/aGHfuxtdW0J

3D Sketchnote videos:

Genevieve Bell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcKf3D9PJE- Amélie Lamont: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byRP0RcyedE

Graphic Gear website (launching early 2018!) - http://graphicgear.com.au

MATTHEW’S 3 TIPS

Share your sketchnotes

Sketch a podcast

practice large scale sketches (not just small scale)

PAST PODCAST SEASON LINKS

Season 1 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-season

Season 2 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast

Season 3 - https://soundcloud.com/sketchnote-army-podcast/sets/sketchnote-army-podcast-1 

Special thanks to Christopher Wilson for the show notes - @mrchrisjwilson https://twitter.com/mrchrisjwilson

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