Sketchnote Podcast

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• Intro: Who is Dave?
• Dave’s entry into gamestorming and visual thinking
• Having a plan and being willing to toss it when things change
• Practice and experience makes our work look lie magic
• What is gamestorming?
• Open, explore, close — the heart of gamestorming
• Gamestorming principles
• See one, do one, teach one
• Dave’s Gamestorming A-Team
• Dave’s Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

• Gamestorming Book
• Gamestorming website
• Gamestormning Group on LinkedIn
• Dave on Twitter
• Dave on Instagram
• Dave on LinkedIn
• Dave’s Email

• Heavyweight 5x8 (A5) index cards
• Heavyweight 11x17 (A3) card stock
• ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape
• Concepts for iPad
• Miro
• The Sketchnote Ideabook
• Yuri Malishenko
• Bill Keaggy
• Sketchnote Army Slack

• Be bored
• Practice through analysis
• Try new styles

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

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• Intro: Who is Xina?
• How did Xina stumble into sketchnoting?
• Lessons from the funeral business for living a full life
• Xina’s approach to energy management
• The correlation between presentation and performance is communication
• Sharing with others
• Xina’s Tools
• 3 tips
• Outro

• Xina’s website
• Xina on Twitter
• Xina on Instagram
• Xina on Facebook
• Xina on LinkedIn
• Sketchnote Army Podcast on Self-Care: Season 07 / EP07
• Adinkra Symbols from Ghana

• Papermate Flair Pens
• Gel Pens
• iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
• Noteshelf
• Procreate
• Concepts
• Paper by WeTransfer
• The Sketchnote Ideabook

• If you can doodle and if you can write, you can draw
• Don’t get too caught up about drawing, but make drawing practice a part of something else you do
• Think of something you like doing, and sketchnote that for enjoyment

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes.

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

We'll start off this season with interesting people:

• Xina Gooding Broderick
• Dave Mastronardi
• Krisztina Szerovay
• James Baylay,
• Nadine Rossa
• Jay Hosler
• Patti Dobrowolski,
• Georg Petschnigg
• David Brittain
• Karl Damke & Raffelina Rossetti

New episodes start next week, Monday, September 21st. We will kick off season 8 with the amazing Xina Gooding Broderick!

This season we’re sponsored by:

• Paperlike
• Neuland FineOne markers
• The Sketchnote Ideabook

CREDITS

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

To support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, by buying one of Mike Rohde’s bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

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You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Need a break from COVID-19 news? Check out our collection of 50+ Sketchnote Army Podcast interviews from 6 seasons at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Feeling isolated? Join our Sketchnote Army Slack community to chat with other visual thinkers about sketchnotes, visual thinking, or whatever is on your mind. Join the Sketchnote Army Slack for free at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/slack

• Intro: Who is Liza?
• Live drawing events
• Live drawing on Instagram and Twitter
• Live drawing the NYC Marathon
• Mike’s loose Korean food sketch on the EL train
• Liza’s New Yorker cartoon process
• The impact of Liza breaking her arm
• Mike’s former political cartooning in college
• Tools
• Tips
• Finding Liza
• Outro

• Liza’s Website
• Liza’s Live Drawing
• Liza’s New Yorker Magazine Cartoons
• Liza’s Books
• Liza on Twitter
• Liza on Instagram
• Liza on Facebook
• Liza on Medium
• The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, Then and Now
• Liza Live Drawing the NYC Marathon
• Mike’s Loose Korean Lunch Sketch

• Speedball Crow Quill Pen
• Arches Snooth Cold Press Paper
• Arches Textured Hot Press Paper
• Dr. Ph. Martin’s Pen White
• Prismacolor Ebony Pencil
• Watercolor Pencils
• Windsor-Newton Watercolor Paints
• iPad Pro
• Paper by We Transfer
• FiftyThree Digital Pencil
• Animation Desk
• Looom

• Look at other people’s work for inspiration
• Always carry an extra pencil
• Be open and adaptable to new ways of doing things
• Draw all the time

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer
• Liza’s photo: Elena Rossini

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Need a break from COVID-19 news? Check out our collection of 50+ Sketchnote Army Podcast interviews from 6 seasons at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Feeling isolated? Join our Sketchnote Army Slack community to chat with other visual thinkers about sketchnotes, visual thinking, or whatever is on your mind. Join the Sketchnote Army Slack for free at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/slack

• Intro: Who is Ole?
• Ole’s path into visual thinking and facilitation
• Applying visual thinking in business
• Visuals being amplified right now
• Mike’s path to visual thinking
• Mike’s re-teaching design through sketchnoting
• Ole’s approach with bigger pages
• Bigger Picture’s 5 biggest business challenges approach
• From personal to shared notes as a facilitator
• Teaching simple drawing to unlock people
• Whiteboard wireframing
• Helping people discover their own visual language
• The value of cross-disciplinary understanding
• Honoring others through humility
• Ole’s describes his book, Visual Collaboration
• Idea 1: Discover your visual language
• Idea 2: Use visual language to visualize meetings
• Idea 3: What questions will make meetings effective
• idea 4: Create structured templates for successful meetings
• Idea 5: Create storyboards to scale collaborative meetings
• Co-creating out of the unknown with visuals
• Tools
• Reaching out to Ole
• 200 free icons!
• Outro

• Ole on LinkedIn
• Ole on Twitter
• Visual Collaboration
• Download a Visual Collaboration free chapter
• Bigger Picture
• Visual Collaboration Academy
• Bigger Picture Video
• Get 100% off the Visual Collaboration Crash Course when you use coupon code MagicMike plus you will get access to a booklet with over 200 icons to use in any meeting, project or process. Join the free webinar series on Remote visual collaboration starting May 5th, 5pm CET.
• David Sibbet
• Dave Gray
• Sunni Brown

• Pilot G2 gel pen
• Moleskine Blank Notebook
• reMarkable Tablet
• iPad Pro
• Post-It Note
• ScannerPro
• Autodesk Sketchbook
• Microsoft Whiteboard
• Miro
• MURAL
• Google Jam Board
• Microsoft Surface Hub

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Need a break from COVID-19 news? Check out our collection of 50+ Sketchnote Army Podcast interviews from 6 seasons at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Feeling isolated? Join our Sketchnote Army Slack community to chat with other visual thinkers about sketchnotes, visual thinking, or whatever is on your mind. Join the Sketchnote Army Slack for free at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/slack

• Intro: Who is Alma?
• How Alma entered into sketchnoting
• “Normal notes don’t make sense anymore.”
• The story of writing Sketching as Design Thinking
• The marathon of book writing
• You can’t write a book in a weekend
• Making daily progress is key - it takes stamina
• The importance of Sabbath breaks for Alma
• The benefits Alma sees in Sabbath breaks
• About Sketching as Design Thinking
• John Medina’s book: Brain Rules
• What’s next for Alma
• Typeface based on her grandparents handwriting
• Carolyn Porter’s book: Marcel’s Letters
• Palmer and Spencerian script handwriting methods
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Reaching out to Alma
• Outro

• Alma’s website
• Alma on Instagram
• Alma on LinkedIn
• Alma on Twitter
• Alma on Pinterest
• Alma on Dribble
• Alma on Smashing Magazine
• University of South Alabama
• Smashing Magazine: Drawing Pictures All Day
• Sketching as Design Thinking
• Brain Rules by John Medina
• Marcel’s Letters by Carolyn Porter
• Palmer Method of Handwriting
• Spencerian Script
• Billions
• Eva-Lotta Lamm

• Kaweco Fountain Pens
• Lamy Fountain Pens
• Moleskine Watercolor Sketchbook
• Moleskine Sketchbook
• Fabriano Notebooks
• Baron Fig Notebooks
• Shinola Notebooks
• Canson Mixed Media Paper
• Palomino Blackwing Pencils
• Ticonderoga Pencils
• Pilot V5 Razor Point
• Sharpie Art Pens
• Papermate Flair Pens
• Pentel Markers
• Tombow Dual Brush Pen
• iPad Pro 12.9”
• Procreate
• Adobe Fresco
• Photoshop Express
• Adobe Premiere Rush

• Be patient and start small
• Trust the process
• Enjoy it!

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Need a break from COVID-19 news? Check out our collection of 50+ Sketchnote Army Podcast interviews from 6 seasons at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Feeling isolated? Join our Sketchnote Army Slack community to chat with other visual thinkers about sketchnotes, visual thinking, or whatever is on your mind. Join the Sketchnote Army Slack for free at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/slack

• Intro: Welcome to Mauro and Steve
• Mauro’s lockdown experience in Northern Italy
• Dealing with reality by putting it on paper with ink
• Using sketchnote skills to check and analyze news
• Getting ideas out of your head though sketchnoting
• Anticipating little pleasures after lockdown
• Creating an “after the pandemic ends” list
• Mind mapping thoughts as visual therapy
• Taking advantage of this time to create new habits
• Steve Silbert on helping team mates and others
• Resetting expectations in a state of change
• J-Curve: it will get worse before it gets better
• Importance of patience, open-mindedness, and empathy
• Practicing empathy and patience
• Virtual Happy Hours
• Choosing the right tools for your situation
• Planning meetings with breaks between
• Retrospectives: what’s working, what isn’t
• Imagining new games for remote teams
• Exploring new tools
• The new normal going forward
• We’re being forced to be creative
• Benefits of this virtual moment
• Online Museum Tours
• Marianne Rady: Discovering Self-Care
• Tweet-a-Day on self-care
• Protect yourself with self-care
• Managing energy levels
• Drawing as self-care
• Self-care experiments
• Thinking of your energy as a battery
• Start with minimums
• Counting streaks to build habits
• Long and short habits
• Emotional self-care
• Sharing self-care ideas with others
• Daily check-ins
• Supporting teams with chat tools
• The “New Normal” can be a gift
• Sketching another person’s thoughts as a gift
• Wrap-up

• Mauro Toselli on Instagram
• Mauro Toselli on Twitter
• Steve Silbert on Instagram
• Steve Silbert on Twitter
• Marianne Rady on Instagram
• Marianne Rady on Twitter
• JigsawPuzzles.io
• Mural
• Lean Coffee Table
• AWW: Online Whiteboard
• Lino Sticky and Photo Sharing
• Sketchnote Hangout: Museum Tours
• Done: habit tracking app
• Sketchnote Army Slack Channel

• Put your thoughts down with ink on paper
• Build a “what I’ll do when this is over” list
• Mind mapping as visual therapy
• Use this time to create new habits
• Practice patience, open-mindedness and empathy
• Have a Virtual Happy Hour
• Build in retrospective moments
• Experiment with self-care ideas
• Be safe: mask and gloves
• Get outside, start a hobby
• Practice listening, it’s a super power
• Sketchnoting someone’s thoughts as a gift to them

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Need a break from COVID-19 news? Check out our collection of 50+ Sketchnote Army Podcast interviews from 6 seasons at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Feeling isolated? Join our Sketchnote Army Slack community to chat with other visual thinkers about sketchnotes, visual thinking, or whatever is on your mind. Join the Sketchnote Army Slack for free at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/slack

• Intro: Who is Yuri?
• Yuri’s path into sketchnoting
• Growing up in Ukraine and the impacts on drawing
• How visualization will help our children
• How Yuri uses visualization at to help teams
• Visualization as rising above the terrain
• Visualization as a computer processor
• Building visual thinking communities in Copenhagen
• Visual thinking as Yuri’s “hobby job”
• Using LinkedIn and Instagram to share visual thinking
• Yuri’s principle of sharing “I share what I wish existed.”
• Yuri’s online course on Udemy
• Yuri’s visual thinking cookbook goal
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Reaching out to Yuri
• Outro

• Yuri’s website
• Yuri on Instagram
• Yuri on LinkedIn
• Yuri on Twitter
• Yuri on Medium
• Visual Thinking Podcast (Apple)
• Visual Thinking Podcast (Spotify)
• Meetup community of visual thinkers in Copenhagen
• Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp - Udemy Get 50% OFF with code MIKEROHDEROCKS until Friday, April 17, 2020
• How visual thinking can make you a better agile coach
• Essentials of Visual Language - Workbook

• Moleskine Blank Notebook
• Neuland SketchOne Pen
• Neuland FineOne Art, brush nib pen
• Pilot V-Sign Pens
• Pilot V-Board Master Whiteboard Pens
• iPad Pro 12.9”
• Procreate
• Concepts

• Imagine drawings as basic LEGO bricks: keep it simple
• Fix your handwriting: slow down and use all caps
• Crete a set of 20-30 simple icons in your library

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab

Need a break from COVID-19 news? Check out our collection of 50+ Sketchnote Army Podcast interviews from 6 seasons at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/podcast

Feeling isolated? Join our Sketchnote Army Slack community to chat with other visual thinkers about sketchnotes, visual thinking, or whatever is on your mind. Join the Sketchnote Army Slack for free at:

https://sketchnotearmy.com/slack

• Intro
• Dulce’s sketchnoting experience in Nigeria
• Why her sketchnoting so attractive
• Human centered design
• How Dulce entered into visual thinking
• Visualization can survive degradation
• Visual storytelling
• Visualization in work settings
• Impact of visualizations in reports
• Visualization and the law
• The power of combining visuals and words
• Dulce’s Irreverent style
• Tools
• How to connect with Dulce
• Outro

• Dulce’s website
• Dulce on Instagram
• Dulce on Twitter

• Uniball Vision Elite
• Moleskine Large Sketchbook
• Pro Markers
• Blue Pencil
• Copic Markers
• iPad Pro 11”
• Procreate

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes

You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.

To support the creation, production, and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

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• Intro: Who is Jason?
• Jason’s path into sketchnoting
• The story of the Visual MBA book
• Kickstarter!
• The iterative design process
• The structure of the Visual MBA
• Kids helping on the Kickstarter
• How sketchnoting encourages creativity
• Instagram and Youtube channels
• Sketchnoting as imnprov
• Tools
• 3 tips
• Reaching out to Jason
• Outro

• Jason’s website
• Jason on Instagram
• Jason on Twitter
• Jason on LinkedIn
• Visual MBA Youtube Channel
• Getting More by Stuart Diamond
• Getting More Korean edition
• The Visual MBA
• BYU Marriott School of Business
• Paper prototypes
• Visual MBA on Kickstarter
• Visual MBA video
• Robert Reich’s visual economics
• Seth Godin

• Pilot Precise V5
• Moleskine Large Sketchbook
• The Sketchnote Ideabook
• iPad Pro
• Paper by We Transfer

• Jump in! Be OK just doing it imperfectly!
• Build a visual library
• Teach and share sketchnoting

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Show Notes: Chris Wilson
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

Brought to you by The Sketchnote Ideabook — the sketchbook designed for sketchnoters. Equipped with a no-bleed, no show-through paper, it can take almost any pen or marker you can throw at it.

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Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. You don’t need to be an artist to think visually. Join Mike and learn to use sketchnotes to clarify your thinking, solve problems, and move forward. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.

Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start sketchnoting and build a regular sketchnoting practice.

He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.

Mike teaches recorded, live, and in-person workshops to accelerate your sketchnoting practice and provides personalized coaching for your specific visual-thinking challenges.

He is the illustrator of bestselling books like REWORK, REMOTE, The $100 Startup, Honest SEO, The Culture Playbook, and The Future Begins with Z.

Become a Supporting or Founding Lab Partner to support Mike’s work.

Some links in Sketchnote Lab posts are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools and resources I use and believe in.

©2026 Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Lab