Sketchnote Army is dedicated to finding and showcasing sketchnotes and sketchnoters from around the world, from events, conferences, workshops or wherever sketchnotes are captured or created. The brainchild of Mike Rohde, Sketchnote Army has existed since November 2009.

Who is behind Sketchnote Army?

Mike Rohde, creator: Designer, sketchnoter, and writer, living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Binaebi Akah, curator: Designer, sketchnoter, writer, and lindy hopper, living in Columbus, Ohio.

How can I be showcased on Sketchnote Army?
Email a brief description and URL to your sketchnotes to us. It's as simple as that! We would love to feature your work.

Entries in sketchnotes (6)

Monday
May072012

3D Sketchnotes animation of Bruce Springsteen's SXSW Keynote

Check out the fantastic sketchnotes animation a la kinetic typography from Timothy Reynolds. Thanks to Eva for pointing it out to us via Twitter! 

Wednesday
Apr252012

Sketchnotes 2011 Book - Eva-Lotta Lamm

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One of my favorite sketchnoters โ€” Eva-Lotta Lamm โ€” has just released her latest book Sketchnotes 2011. The new book includes over 100 talks as sketchnotes, captured in 2011, along with a special guest section featuring 10 of Eva-Lotta's favorite sketchnoters, capturing the same TED talk in their own style.

Guest sketchnoters include Amanda Wright, Bauke Schildt, Carolyn Sewell, Craighton Berman, Gerren Lamson, Len Kendall, Matthew Magain, Paul Soupiset, Timothy J. Reynolds and me, Mike Rohde.

The new book is $32 at Lulu.com.

Here's a sample page:

The Ministry of Stories & Matt Adams @ The Story 2011

Be sure to check out Eva-Lotta's 2009-2010 book as well โ€” check out sample pages in this book on Flickr.

Monday
Mar262012

SXSW 2012 Sketchnotes

Here's a collection of sketchnotes captured at SXSW Interactive 2012. If you have sketchnotes to share or know of some I've missed, please drop a line!

Gerren Lamson

Gerren Lamson did some amazing work at SXSW, check out his blog and SXSW 2012 Sketchnotes Flickr set for all of the sketchnotey goodness!

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Paul Soupiset

Paul Soupiset captured sketchnotes, but limited himself to small squares to see how that changed his capture. Check out his blog and Paul's Projeqt site for more.


Craighton Berman

Craighton Bermann captured Field Notes from his trip to SXSW, using a first generation iPad to capture his sketchnotes. Love his work.

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Timothy J. Reynolds

Timothy J. Reynolds stayed for SXSW Music and captured Bruce Springsteen in real time as sketchnotes. Nice work Timothy!

Bruce Springsteen-SXSW Keynote [Sketchnotes]

Alexis Finch

Alexis Finch created a variety of pencil to ink and color sketchnotes at SXSW, the one below from Jonathan Stark's panel. Check out her Graphite Mind blog for more.

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Lauri Johnston

Illustrator Lauri Johnston compiled all her sketchnotes into a powerpoint presentation.


Heidi Forbes Oste

Check out visual communicator Heidi Forbes Oste's Flickr collection.


Paola Rico

Paola Rico from Hello Operator Studio made some cool zines for co-workers from SXSW 2012. Here are zines 1 and zines 2. Great idea Paola!

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Ogilvy Notes

The Ogilvy Notes team was at it again for a second year - check out the Ogilvy Notes SXSW 2012 area for a variety of sketchnotes from SXSW.

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Mike Rohde

I captured 20 pages of sketchnotes as well, from a few select sessions. Check out the full SXSW 2012 set on Flickr.

SXSW 2012 Sketchnotes: 01-02 OMG Your RFP is Killing Me!
Wednesday
Jan182012

Brad Colbow's "It's the Little Things" from Jen Myers

One of Jen Myers' first sketchnotes, this from Brad Colbow's It's the Little Things talk at CodeMash. Great example that shows how a sketchnote can be two pens, a couple outlines/arrows/boxes, and words and still be super engaging.

Monday
Jan162012

LeanUX from Thinknow by Ross Belmont

Quick sketchnote from Thinknow's presentation at LuxCHI by Ross Belmont. Love how he captured the essence of it... now that is a lean sketchnote!