Live Scribing

Digital Live Scribing In-Person Live Scribing

See the Big Picture. Shape the Conversation. Drive Action.

Live scribing, also known as live event illustration, turns spoken ideas into clear, hand-drawn visuals in the moment. It improves audience engagement, memory retention, and strategic clarity across conferences, workshops, leadership sessions, and hybrid events. Audiences see ideas unfold in real time and leave with shareable visual summaries that make complex information easy to understand.

Perfect for conferences, workshops, strategy sessions, leadership events, and hybrid meetings, Live Event Illustration turns complexity into clarity and boosts creativity, collaboration, and deep thinking. Used interchangeably with Graphic Recording, Live Scribing at events amplifies conversations and turns key insights into simple, shareable visuals.

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How We Deliver Live Scribing

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Digital Live Scribing

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In-Person Live Scribing

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Remote Live Scribing

Digital
Live Scribing

Digital Live Scribing brings real-time visual thinking to hybrid, virtual and in-person events. Using a tablet, visuals appear instantly on large screens or inside virtual platforms like Zoom and Teams, keeping everyone aligned wherever they are.

Digital graphic recording for events is ideal for fast-moving events and delivers polished, high-resolution visual assets ready for presentations, reports, social media, blogs and internal communication.

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Why Choose Live Digital Scribing?

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Perfect for Virtual & Hybrid Events

Everyone experiences the same real-time visual engagement, whether on-site or remote.

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Seamless Screen Integration

Visual summaries can be projected live or embedded in virtual meetings.

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Instant Sharing

Receive a ready-to-use digital file immediately after the session.

In-Person
Live Scribing

In-Person Live Scribing is a hand-drawn, immersive experience that also serves as live event illustration. The artwork grows in real time, creating excitement and sparking conversation as participants watch their ideas take shape. Our live scribes integrate visual facilitation techniques that deepen engagement and strengthen group collaboration.

You receive both the original hand-drawn visual and a polished digital event visual for reuse.

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Why Choose In-Person Live Scribing?

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Engaging & Tangible

A live artist in the room elevates energy and draws attention.

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Encourages Collaboration

Ideas developing on a shared surface naturally spark discussion.

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Lasting Impact

Event visuals become memorable post-event artefacts that support internal communications.

Remote Live
Scribing

Remote Live Scribing brings real-time visual storytelling to online events, webinars, and global meetings without travel or logistics. We capture key insights live and screen-share the illustration as it develops, keeping virtual audiences engaged and aligned.

Live Illustration for Events process creates real-time visual summaries that help audiences understand and retain information.

After the event, you receive high-resolution visuals ideal for ongoing communication.

You get the same impact with more flexibility, wherever your team is.

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Remote Live Scribing capturing key ideas in real-time, creating engaging digital visuals for virtual events, webinars, and online meetings.

Where Event Scribing Creates the Most Impact:

Leadership & Strategy Sessions → Visualise goals, align teams, and drive clarity.
Innovation & Design Thinking Workshops → Boost creativity with fast, visual event support.
Conferences & Keynotes → Engage large audiences and make complex content memorable.
Business Transformation & Change Management → Create clarity around vision, process, and objectives.
Meetings & Internal Events → Make discussions engaging and turn ideas into actionable outputs.

How Live Scribing works?

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Live Visualization

We listen, synthesise, and capture key ideas as they’re spoken — turning conversations into visuals in real time.

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Real-Time Clarity

Participants see the big picture forming, improving engagement and understanding instantly.

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Immediate & Lasting Impact

You receive digital or hand-drawn visuals as valuable assets for communication, strategy, and storytelling.

Why choose Smartup Visuals

With more than 12 years of visual communication expertise working with Fortune 500 companies and global organisations, we bring clarity to complex ideas. We don’t just draw. We translate conversations into clear visual stories and real-time visual summaries that support strategy, strengthen engagement, and help teams communicate more effectively.

Whether in person or delivered digitally, our live scribing adapts to your event format and goals. Our team delivers live scribing and live event illustration across the UK, Europe, and the US, supporting conferences, workshops, and leadership sessions worldwide.

The visual summaries created during your event become long-lasting assets, used in presentations, reports, campaigns, and internal communication to extend value well beyond the moment.

What Our Clients Say:

Smartup Visuals did some amazing work visualizing the contents of our 2-day workshop and were a delight to work with. I can highly recommend them!
Justus Bender-HackePrincipal Account Manager

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Smartup Visuals for our Paris Innovation Summit and their live digital scribing blew the audience away and was a great way for them to share insights from the event with their own organisations. Wishing Smartup Visuals every success and looking forward to teaming up again.
Gaurav GujralManaging Director and Global Consulting Leader

Smartup Visuals transformed a flood of messy ideas into a clear, compelling poster to describe our resilience financing work. They did it in just a few days, with professionalism and an ability to listen for the key takeaways behind our concepts. We’ll be using the poster at conferences and in talks, and I’m so appreciative of their skill!
Eva Vander Giessen Senior Communications Manager

Related Terms

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Graphic Recording

A commonly used term for capturing key ideas and discussions in real time through visuals. It is simply another name for Live Scribing.

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Event Illustration

A creative term often used in event and marketing contexts, referring to event visualisation that captures the essence of a talk or session. It describes the same practice as Live Scribing.

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Visual Facilitation

A workshop-oriented term that highlights how visuals help groups think together, clarify ideas, and collaborate. It overlaps closely with Live Scribing when used in strategic or interactive sessions.

Live Scribing FAQ

How does Live Scribing work?

Live Scribing captures key ideas in real time as discussions unfold.

Your live scriber listens carefully, filters information, and identifies the most important insights. These are then transformed into visuals that map connections, highlight themes, and show the “big picture” of the conversation.

This real-time visual mapping helps audiences understand and retain information more effectively — making it ideal for strategy meetings, leadership discussions, innovation workshops, conferences, and business events.

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Live Scribing turns spoken content into a clear, illustrated mind map that boosts engagement and supports better decision-making.

What are the types of Live Scribing?

Live Scribing is delivered in three formats, depending on your event setup and audience needs:

1. In-Person Live Scribing (Hand-Drawn)

Ideal for conferences and workshops where the artist is physically present. Large-scale, hand-drawn visuals grow in real time, energising the room and creating a memorable event centerpiece.

2. Digital Live Scribing (On-Site or Remote)

Visuals are created on a tablet and projected onto screens or shared in virtual platforms like Zoom and Teams. Perfect for hybrid events, leadership sessions, and online conferences.

3. Remote Live Scribing

A fully virtual option for online events and global meetings. Your scribe joins remotely, captures key insights in real time, and screenshares the evolving visual with your audience.

What additional value does Live Scribing provide?

Live Scribing delivers far more than a visual summary. It becomes a strategic communication asset your team can use long after the event.

You receive a clear, structured visual mind map that highlights key insights, themes, and connections. This visual can be shared in follow-up emails, presentations, reports, blogs, and social media, helping attendees and those who couldn’t join revisit and retain the most important messages.