Benjamin Felis - Graphic Recording & Illustration

01/02/2020

🏝 I know I know - the new year has already started for many people and also for many of you!

And I hope in a good way! I'm still on vacation on the little island called La Gomera.

I'm spending here the last days of our parternal leave with my wife and my little son who will soon be 1! If you have kids you definitely should check out this little paradise!

Startin' slow in the year - but planning to leave it with lots of impact!

Lots of workshops in the pipeline, new online classes and my new role as an official TOOLMASTER for @neulandcom !✨

So have a great weekend everybody and see you somewhere throughout the year!

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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

16/01/2020

✏️📈New studio space in Berlin wanted! Looking for a +/- 100 sqm space in the middle of Berlin for 4+ handsome freelancers! Please PM!!
Thank you!!

(Design by @danielperraudin )

#Berlin #Kreuzberg #Mitte #Schôneberg #Neukölln

30/12/2019

✏️📈 So great to see many students like @franziskawschwarz evolving quickly and happily in the „Graphic Recording like a PRO“ online class!!❤️

✨Come and join the team and let 2020 bring you to another level🚀✨

👉🏼 http://bit.ly/EnterGRlikeaPRO

#GRlikeaPRO #graphicrecording #workshop #learning #creative #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator #neulandcom

23/12/2019

✏️📈 Merry christmas everybody!🎄
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#GRlikeaPRO #christmas ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting

21/12/2019

„Listening is the true social sense!“ Frank Asmus

No matter if you are a #keynote #speaker, a #trainer or #coach or a #graphicrecorder. Listening is a key skill everywhere where you work with people - and we don‘t listen enough.

One of the many great insights on our self organized day with @frankasmusberlin - learning from the Best!

You don‘t need to train specific skills for having a professional stage skills - as long as you know how to listen and know your deepest why. And know your deepest motivation WHY you want to be on stage.

I’m very thankful to spent the day with Frank Asmus, @martincurtz Jörg Vogelgesang, @joana_garcia_official, Norbert Höchner, Boris Wienke and many other great people here in Berlin

19/12/2019

✏️📈Another great and intense #graphicrecording workshop - this time for the University of Potsdam.
I looove working with students!!
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#GRlikeaPRO #graphicrecording #workshop #learning #creative #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator @ Universität Potsdam

16/12/2019

✏️📈 Recently I was invited to the new Neuland Playground as part of the future #toolmaster program. It definitely was visual playground - full of all the products you could think of. We played with markers, developed concepts and exchanged knowledge for a whole day. This day went by way too quick! Let‘s see what will evolve in the future!
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‪#neuland #toolmaster #graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬ @ neuland

15/12/2019

Homepage

🎄 (Almost) a VISUAL christmas story 🎄
At first I thought this was just another feedback on my online classes - but then...:

„Hi,

I always struggled with drawing as a kid. I struggle with attention and I have a slight tremor in my hands, so drawing has always been something that has been a barrier to me communicating and expressing myself visually. I also never experienced the "love of drawing" as a kid. My handwriting is a mix of letters, shorthand symbols, and my own symbol set to reduce how much I have to write. No one can read my handwriting because I'm not actually using an alphabet most of the time.

The one thing I could do was write on a whiteboard a little, and I have taught and lectured for years. I took your course because I wanted to learn how to ditch Powerpoint slides and "graphically record live" while I spoke (like you did in the videos). I'm developing new material that is very complex conceptually, so I wanted to learn if graphics could help with communicating.

But, your course did so much more. Using felt tip pens (never tried those before) and your lettering guide (and a few weeks of practice), and a bit of a "swiping" technique that I time with my tremors, I have written the first legible things I have likely ever written in my life. I wrote up a weekly calendar for myself a couple of days ago and my wife thought I purchased a pre-made journal because the lettering looked professional. To give you an idea about what that means: I never used gift cards for presents because I couldn't write anything in them that anyone could read. This Christmas, everyone gets a personalized note ...

I also successfully drew my very first person that was not a stick figure. I'm not sure how to communicate how big of a deal that is. Learning how to draw the symbols on the symbol cheatsheet was really cool, but people .... it was like being able to whistle for the first time.

I also found out that I really suck at drawing clouds... I know. How can someone suck at clouds? I do. Nothing looks like a cloud. If you had any tips on how to improve those, I'd appreciate it.

I don't know if graphic recording will do what I was hoping it would for my future presentations, but that's not my focus right now. Right now, I have to grab all my 4 yr old's art supplies and play, and I need to go out and by Christmas gift cards for the first time in my life.

Thanks so much for providing this course. It did more than you can know.

J.“

Isn‘t this beautiful? Sometimes we do more for people than we might know. Thank you so much!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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He was referring to the following class:

https://graphic-recording-and-visual-facilitation.teachable.com

12/12/2019

✏️📈 Morgen bin ich endlich im Coffee Talk mit Pavo & Rob, dem glorreichen Format vom @djangonaut und @robertbree.de ☕️☕️

LIVE um 9:30 Uhr auf diesem Instagram!

Join the show entweder bei Pavo aka @djangonaut oder bei mir @benjaminfelis!

Freu mich auf Euch!

#pavoundrobcoffeetalk #interview #fame #friday #coffee #coffeetalk #graphicrecording

12/12/2019

✏️📈 Mr. Ben Felis in Action!✨
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#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

10/12/2019

08/12/2019

✏️📈 Getting ready for a Graphic Recording workshop for the @illustratorenorganisation tomorrow!
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#GRlikeaPRO #graphicrecording #workshop #learning #creative #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator

08/12/2019

✨Newsletter - Updates - Presents✨

++ + The latest newsletter - published today! + ++

05/12/2019

✏️📈 ...an article about my journey from a little graffiti-boy busted by the police to an world wide working Graphic Recorder. Published in the local newspaper of my former hometown😍

04/12/2019

Drawing is the best way to learn, even if you’re no Leonardo da Vinci

„Drawing makes us better citizens“ - a nice article about D.B. Dowd. - enjoy!✨

Why do so many of us stop drawing when we become adults?

03/12/2019

✏️📈 So many sketchnote starter sets! 🎄🎀
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@staedtlermars ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

01/12/2019

Creative visualization workshop - CROZ

✨✨Next public Workshop: Zagreb, Croatia✨✨

12th of Devember: Creative Visualization Foundation
13th of December: Visual Storytelling & Presentation

See link for further information below:

https://croz.net/educations/creative-visualization-workshop/

With just a few colors, forms and little tricks you can astonishingly improve you presentation skills.

01/12/2019

✏️📈 I love big audiences!!
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#rockstar ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting

30/11/2019

📈✏️ #sketchnote #keynote today for 120 medical technical assistants👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧👩‍👩‍👧👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👩‍👩‍👦‍👦
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(promotion) sponsored by @staedtlermars
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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

29/11/2019

✏️🙏🏻 Throwback friday: 2015 I started with the first cut outs. There are more shapes than rectangles ✂️
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#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

26/11/2019

📈✏️ Experimenting with a new style...the more complex the topic the less figurative I work. Deep listening and sensing energy lead to more abstract pictures. Interesting thought I also once discussed with @holgernilspohl : I the beginning of your career you want to draw as cool as possible. Later you have to let go and be open to dynamics, energies and underlying concepts. And then you find youself drawing abstract shapes and lines...

#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

22/11/2019

✏️📈 The actual #benjaminfelis #visualfacilitation starter set! Start to change the world with this simple set of markers and wax crayons!
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#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

11/11/2019

✏️📈 I always try to give people the best #seminar experience - but sometimes a little extra help is needed😃☕️
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#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation

06/11/2019

++ ++ Birthday Special! Today ALL (!) online-classes 50% off with the code "BENDAY" :) ++ + ++

Offer valid for 24 hours :)

-> http://bit.ly/school-of-graphicrecording

05/11/2019

✏️📈 Basic templates for drawing processes...
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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬ @ Cape Town, Western Province, South Africa

03/11/2019

✏️📈 International Visual Super Power ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼✊🏻✊🏻🇿🇦
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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

01/11/2019

✏️📈 I probably gave my best workshop EVER yesterday in Johannesburg. It was the last day of a three day workshop that ended with a Masterclass of six selected students. The topic was “Visual Storytelling”

All students went through an extensive block on theory in storytelling after they developed their visuals and chose the final presentation format an the brand new TED J conference.

The topics were absolutely touching - we heard stories on overcoming addiction, life principles by Virginia Satyr, susitainable parenting and many more.

A deep, intense and inspiring workshop! Thanks to everyone who was there!!

🙏🏻

#graphicrecording #storytelling #workshop #learning #creative #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator @ Olives & Plates.

26/10/2019

Montessori Stiftung Berlin

Der neueste Erklärfilm in Zusammenabeit mit der Die Erklärerei!

Tolles Thema - wie findet ihr den Film?

*PREMIERE: Erklärfilm: Was ist Montessori-Pädagogik?* Weil unsere Schülerinnen und Schüler und auch wir immer wieder auf Vorurteile und Unwissen stoßen, wenn es um Montessori-Pädagogik geht, haben wir zusammen mit der Berliner Erklärfilmmanufaktur Die Erklärerei einen kurzen Film produziert. Darin werden die Grundlagen und der Sinn der Pädagogik, die wir für so sinnvoll und zeitgemäß erachten wie keine andere, anschaulich dargestellt. Der Film soll einen leichten Einstieg ins Thema bieten. Ab sofort ist er auch auf YouTube verfügbar. Wir sind gespannt, was ihr zu dem Film sagt. Ihr dürft ihn natürlich gern teilen und zeigen und darüber diskutieren ❤️

23/10/2019

✏️📈 „This is a hard day‘s night“🎙
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#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting

18/10/2019

✏️📈 Graphic Recording is listening with your markers!☝🏼
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Picture by Markus Rödder aka @blogzoomlab
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#GRlikeaPRO #lumocolor ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis

17/10/2019

Benjamin Felis - Graphic Recording zu Gast bei Scherer Daily

Hier der Link zum Video - Danke an Hermann Scherer für diese tolle Möglichkeit und das sehr gelungene Interview!

https://youtu.be/om_DwNb-x28

"Vom Stadtschmierer zum international gebuchten Konferenzmaler" Benjamin Felis im Interview bei Hamburg 1 mit Hermann Scherer. Erzählt wird der Werdegang vom...

17/10/2019

✏️📈 German only:

Bin heute im Livestream auf @hamburg1fernsehen zu sehen! @hermannscherer_official interviewt mich zu meinem Werdegang als Graphic Recorder.

„Vom Stadtschmierer zum internationalen Konferenzmaler“

Ausstrahlung zwischen 15 und 16 Uhr - Livestream auf
www.hamburg1.de/livestream

‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis

17/10/2019

Livestream

TV Party today!
Heute zwischen 15-16 Uhr strahlt Hamburg 1 ein Interview mit mir aus:

https://www.hamburg1.de/livestream.html.

Ich wurde von Hermann Scherer zum Thema Graphic Recording interviewt.

Wer um diese Uhrzeit Lust auf 19min geballte Informationen zum Thema Graphic Recording sehen will, die/der schalte ein!

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17/10/2019

Meraviglioso!!

✏️📈Once again I was teaching “Creative Visualization” to the agile community in Italy - this time at Vodafone Milan. I was invited to host a meetup on #graphicrecording and then we spend the next day learning and exploring #visualization techniques.

Thanks to everyone who was at the meetup and everyone who also came to the workshop!

I think I have to learn italian🇮🇹 - I will keep coming back!

Mille grazie!!

#graphicrecording #agile #scrum #newwork #visualpower

PS: For those who couldn’t be there you might check out my online school: https://graphic-recording-and-visual-facilitation.teachable.com

16/10/2019

✏️📈Ready to shape the future!
Ready for another interactive talk!🙋🏼‍♂️🇮🇹
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#GRlikeaPRO #speaker #keynote ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

14/10/2019

✏️📈Thank you @staedtlermars for inviting me to show what the #lumocolor markers can do on #flipchart and #whiteboard on the @insightsexpo. I had a great time with great people! We will see us again🙋🏼‍♂️
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#graphicrecording #workshop #learning #creative

12/10/2019

✏️📈Markers, markers, markers!
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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

10/10/2019

✏️📈yesterday I gave another interactive talk on the power of #graphicrecording at the @insightsexpo

The participants learned basic visualization techniques and we made a slow-motion graohic recording together
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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬

09/10/2019

✏️📈Today working for @staedtlermars on the @insightsexpo - Testing markets for #flipchart and #whiteboard
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‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis

05/10/2019

✏️📈Drawing for life✊🏼
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#GRlikeaPRO ‪#graphicrecording #benjaminfelis #sketchnoting #visualfacilitation #visualthinking #scribing #ifvp #infographic #liveillustration #livedrawing #illustration #illustrator‬