Sketchnote Handbook

to creating truly beautiful notes. It's a marvel to behold." -Myke Hurley, founder of the 70Decibels network "Mike Rohde practices what he preaches. This beautiful, simple book has everything you need to sketchnote like a pro! The Sketchnote Handbook is destined to be the definitive guide to a new, practical, and innovative discipline." -Dave Gray, X-PLANE, author of The Connected Company and co-author of Gamestorming "Something magical happens when you take notes with pictures and words together. In this friendly, encouraging book, sketchnote wizard Mike Rohde shares his secrets so that anybody can steal his tricks for capturing ideas with pen and paper." -Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist "The Sketchnote Handbook is an informative, hands-on book designed to quickly share the principles of sketchnoting, so you can get right to creating sketchnotes for yourself. Mike's fun, illustrative style energizes you to pick up a pen and sketchnote!" -Nancy Duarte, CEO Duarte Inc, best-selling author of Resonate and Slide:ology "This book is not really a book. It's a tool kit for learning a new and better way of capturing and understanding information, and it's perfectly aligned with the way our brains actually work. If you're a student, or a teacher, or a businessperson, this book has the potential to change the way you learn, and the way you think." -Daniel Coyle, The New York Times best-selling author of The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent "Never fear note taking again. Rohde demystifies the practice and makes it accessible to everyone. Your brain will thank him later." -Sunni Brown, co-author of Gamestorming "The Sketchnote Handbook is a call to fully engage and enhance the big concepts and key ideas we are exposed to at conferences, in meetings, and daily life. Doodles are no longer a dirty word! Mike Rohde's easy examples and straightforward explanations make it accessible for anyone. This is a revolution that takes simple note taking to another plateau, turning it into actionable art." -Patrick Rhone, author of Keeping It Straight and enough "For The Sketchnoting Handbook, Mike uses his famous talent of distilling and illustrating other people's ideas, and he shares some ideas of his own-how to create your own awesome sketchnotes. Not only is Mike a clever illustrator, he's also an approachable and clear communicator. His book is equal parts fun and instruction." -Shawn Blanc, shawnblanc.net "There are great storytellers, and there are great artists. And then there is Mike Rohde: a magnificent blend of the two. What Mike has made into a professional art form we once did as children-rely on a blend of visuals and words to communicate. We've since been pulled too far in the direction of words, and Mike's book is here to help us reawaken the full range of our abilities." -Leslie Bradshaw, co-founder, president, and COO of JESS3 "The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a more complete and insightful way. It's a software upgrade for your brain. For those who've been shamed into thinking that drawing is either beyond them or beneath them, this book offers a whole new way of mastering the daily onslaught of information and turning it into raw material for discovery. (For those of us who've done this all our lives, the book provides a beautifully conceived and lovingly illustrated treat, and a great gift for our left-brained friends.)" -Stefan G. Bucher, creator of dailymonster.com, author of 344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment