Get more impact from your meetings with LIVE Illustration.

By listening carefully, thinking deeply, and drawing quickly, I make conversations visible. Here’s how I can help:

Graphic Recording

Visual note-taking for events, conferences, workshops, and meetings – LIVE, in real time. I draw key themes as they happen using pictures, words and color. Ideas and conversations come to life, ultimately creating a visual artifact that can be easily seen, understood and shared.

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Animation

Whiteboard explainer videos and time-lapse videos are fantastic tools for explaining complex ideas. I work closely with clients in a collaborative and iterative process, from scripting and editing to production and shooting.

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Illustration

Hand-drawn visuals are accessible and fun, adding warmth and personality to any project. Some of the ways my clients have integrated custom illustrations into their projects is with story maps, infographics, icons, book illustrations, presentation slides, thank you gifts, and visual summaries of sessions.

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Brand Strategy

With over 22 years of experience, I help both consultants and organizations stand out more in peoples’ minds, gain trust, and guide marketing efforts using The Brand Recipe, my comprehensive methodology that dives deep into uncovering your authenticity.

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Capturing the nuances of a complex system

We asked a lot from Julia and she delivered! Julia did a wonderful job capturing the progress of our project and the nuances of a very complex system that incorporated social, biological and agronomic elements. In addition to the compelling images Julia created, the real-time graphic recording was engaging and the images brought a wonderful element to our meeting that all appreciated. The images have been put to good use and are included in a variety of our presentations and outreach materials.

— Emily Usher, Project Manager, Diverse Corn Belt

Purdue University

Makes me to want to frame every single doodle

Thank YOU! to Julia who was able to capture body and soul of the day in a way makes me to want to frame every single doodle.

— Eva Marquez, Executive Director, Marketing, IU

She captured information in a fun and meaningful way

Having a real-time visual representation of the thoughts and dreams of our faculty, staff and students as they participated in strategic planning sessions about the College’s future brought their ideas to life… and in working with Julia, we were able to capture information in a fun and meaningful way.

— Karen Dyer, Vice President for Advancement

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

Her works drives engagement

I invest in Julia’s visual recording for important workshops not just for a great deliverable, but mostly because her works drives engagement - she brings an element of creativity and real-time intrigue as participants watch their ideas come to life on her boards.

— Peter Lux, Chief of Staff & VP, Organization + People

Heritage Environmental Services

Julia was a fantastic addition to our conference

Julia was a fantastic addition to our conference. She took complex information and distilled it into graphic notes that enhanced learning, provided beautiful visuals, and added an element of fun to the day. Her work played perfectly to our social media strategy of creating Instagram-worthy content to help fulfill our nonprofit's educational mission.

— Erin Anderson, Director of Programs and Advancement

Autoimmune Hepatitis Association

Your work activates the imagination and inspires all to unleash their creativity!

I knew that your presence would make all the difference in the world and it did. Your work activates the imagination and inspires all to unleash their creativity! Your gifts are like alchemy for the brain, heart - and yes guts too 🙂 - You totally adapted, get thrown in to content you never heard and did it masterfully and joined in authentically with the group.

— Ellen Wingard, Transformational leadership consulting for social impact

The creation of a visual record of the workshop is an important way to document what the attendees did

Inviting Julia [to our workshop] represented a new strategy to encourage faculty and staff to think creatively about emerging opportunities on our campus. The creation of a visual record of the workshop is an important way to document what the attendees did. We can use the visual notes throughout the summer as the attendees progress with their projects, and we can use them when school starts again to demonstrate these ideas and even recruit others to work on these projects.

— Julia M. Williams, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Julia is responsive, thoughtful, and an excellent listener

Julia is responsive, thoughtful, and an excellent listener. I felt heard, respected, and like she cared about my outcomes as much as I did.

— Julie O'Day, Owner

O'Day Studios

Julia is also an absolute pleasure to work with

We first worked with Julia on a single infographic for a presentation in 2012, but that experience was so positive that we have continued going back to her for bigger and bigger projects. All of the work she has done for us is clean, professional, seamlessly integrated into our existing graphic identity, and most of all beautiful. Julia is also an absolute pleasure to work with. I cannot recommend her enough!