Sketchnoting: Communicate with Visual Notes
Creating Visual Hierarchy 1
A course by Eva-Lotta Lamm , Designer
Learn to capture presentations and other content as well as take expressive meeting notes in real time by combining text and sketches
About the video: Creating Visual Hierarchy 1
Overview
“First, let's look at how we can create a visual hierarchy, or visual ranking, between our content so that it's quick and easy to see what's important. There are a total of five techniques for this: size, contrast, color, style and additional elements. Here I show you the first three.”
In this video lesson Eva-Lotta Lamm addresses the topic: Creating Visual Hierarchy 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchnoting: Communicate with Visual Notes. Learn to capture presentations and other content as well as take expressive meeting notes in real time by combining text and sketches.
Partial transcription of the video
“Create visual hierarchy In this lesson we look at how we can create a visual hierarchy. A visual hierarchy is like that like a visible ranking, visual, visible, and hierarchy is a ranking. We want to be able to see at a glance even if there are many elements on it, which is more important, what is a main topic, what is a sub-topic, so that the things that are important catch the eye. There are basically five methods or techniques with which one can achieve a visual hierarchy. On the one hand, we use color. Size. Contrast. Style. And also, I'll just call it: additional elements. We're now go...”
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Course summary for: Sketchnoting: Communicate with Visual Notes
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Business, Communication, Creativity, Drawing, Management & Productivity, Traditional illustration

Eva-Lotta Lamm
A course by Eva-Lotta Lamm
Eva-Lotta Lamm is a designer, author, and visual thinker. After a 15-year career as a UX and digital product designer for clients like Google, Skype, and Yahoo!, she decided to dedicate herself to her lifetime passion of visual thinking. She currently lives in Berlin and manages her own company, where she teaches others the art of sketchnoting.
Her mission is to train people to visualize the complex issues of everyday life in order to solve them from this new visual perspective. Eva-Lotta is an expert in her field and regularly gives talks at international design events. She has also published a book containing an assortment of her sketchnotes about her experiences and topics that interest and inspire her.
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