Meld Studios | The art of visual communication training

This is a practical, pen-in-hand session with Meld Studios practitioners, Zoe and Harold, to help you communicate visually.

Often in our work lives, we find ourselves typing out reports and slide decks because we’re used to using words to communicate what we’re thinking. A sketch can take a few seconds, and can be just as, if not more engaging, and easier for our brains to digest.

Working with hundreds of businesses and industries throughout the last 14 years, we at Meld Studios get a special feeling every time a client tells us how much they value our visuals for making complex business processes, concepts and ideas, so much more tangible and simple.

This course will help you do that too.

This workshop will help you develop the visual skills to:

Express your thinking
Bring life to your ideas, concepts, strategies, processes so you get more buy-in
Use visuals and sketching to uncover relationships, problems, and opportunities
Genuinely capture your stakeholders’ attention and improve their understanding
Represent complex ideas in a quick, tangible, and cost-effective way.

We'll cover:

Building your own library of visuals to draw upon
Learning some techniques to visually express flows, processes, journeys, and relationships
Illustrating visual stories by combining your library with knowledge of flows and relationships
Practising how to talk through and showcase your visual story
Illustrating an aspect of your work you see the value in visualising (e.g., data, systems, flows, processes, concepts, etc).

Who can attend?

These workshops are ideal for anyone who needs to communicate at work and thinks having more visual skills in their toolkit would help them do that.

How long is it?

We usually run this as a half-day workshop, but we also have a one-hour taster.

What attendees say

"Just wanted to respond with a big thank you for last week’s workshop. I truly loved every minute of it, and came away so enthused and excited to practice my new found skills. I also took your advice and invested in several Sharpie Chisel Tips. Looking forward to sharing my creations."

“Thank you again for your course yesterday. I’m looking forward to investing time practising my new skills. And thank you for including the sample workbook. I appreciate having something to look back on to remind me of the things you spoke of and give me inspiration.”

"I enjoyed the workshop a lot and thanks for sharing the links and resources."

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