Below are select case studies of projects I have had the joy to work on.
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Digital Freedom Fund
I had the great pleasure of working with the Digital Freedom Fund on a number of events between 2019 and 2021 listening to conversations about our digital rights and our digital future. Collaborating with another graphic recorder Temujen Gunewadena we captured many days of conversation, break out rooms and plenaries. We have worked with the…
UfM Women Conference 2020
I was thrilled to work with this amazing international conference for 4 days of conversation on women’s rights and equality in the Mediterranean, North African and Middle East regions.
British Council
A series of images for the British Council to convey their refreshed Theory of Change (TOC).
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“Stunning drawings that have illustrated our work brilliantly.”
Port Summit 2020 Barcelona
Digital graphic recording streamed live for Port Transatlantic Summit 2020
Zero Carbon Challenge – UCL
Taking notes from the floor – and keeping up with the flow of bright ideas 💡 from a massive brainstorming session at Zero Carbon Challenge at Senate House for UCL, London
Drivers For Change
The day included a workshop from Red Bull’s marketing team and a deep reflections session led by artistic director for the Southbank Centre, Jude Kelly.
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“Blanche managed to capture the energy of the journey and gave us a fantastic visual representation of our unique experience that… we can use to promote our project in the future.”
Mural for Prelude Events Offices
“She created a magical masterpiece that depicts the essence of our company and everyone in it, with whimsical drawings that come to life, and tell our story PERFECTLY.” ~Wendy Von Fries ~ President & Founder, Prelude Events
Spredfast
Drawing on the London skyline at the Millbank Tower for, ‘The Social Mind Revealed Spredfast Summit 2016’
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“She brought such a great energy to the event, adding a visual detail that attendees were incredibly excited about sharing on social.”
Rising Global Peace Forum 2016
An inspiring day of talks for Rising Global Peace Forum 2016. A 10 meter wall of graphics that captured three days of incredible speakers and discussions, drawing together the themes and ideas that flowed throughout the event.
Good Europe
It was fantastic to capture this passionate debate for ‘Good Europe’. The talks spanned from finance and economics to migration and climate change. We drew the content onto a large free standing mural in the centre of the event to draw more people into the timely discussion.
TEDxBarcelona
Had an amazing time working with TEDxBarcelona for their anual event. Nine amazing speakers, a dance performance and a wonderful team!
Lockdown – Positive Projections
A project to positively visualise the present and future during and after the start of the Covid crises. What can we do to help and pull together? What kind of future do we want to build?
IMS – International Media Support
Graphic recording a 3 day conference for IMS in Copenhagen. It was an incredible conference bringing together people who do amazing work worldwide to enable open, ethical journalism.
Pulmons De Barri – animated visual
I had the chance to visualise this beautiful project with Pulmons De Barri and UPC Arts, combining arts, tech, science and solutions for sustainability.
Fair Business – Think Tank
I worked with Board Intelligence in 2021 to make graphic recording for a series of conversations around the question: “What is the role of business in creating a fairer future?
IMS – International Media Support
Working with IMS (International Media Support) to capture two days of conference in early 2020 and hear about their incredible and vital work, supporting journalists worldwide.
Jagriti Yatra
“It was amazing to see our travels and discussions woven into a constantly unfolding illustration that fed back into discussions and workshops.” – Mohit Arora – School of Social Entrepreneurs
LivShare
I was asked to design a layered image to encapsulate the ethos and action plan of this great co-living project.
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“Everyone that we have shown your work to so far just loves it! It has been a pleasure to work with you on this.”
Bee The Planet
Ha sido un placer trabajar con Blanche… Hemos quedado encantadas con el resultado y esperamos que hayan muchas más colaboraciones!’
~ Natalia Crespo ~ Fundador, Bee The Planet
Awaken Festival – Kuwait
I captured two days of talks in a multimedia space where the speakers gave interactive talks, working through poetry, discussions, games and metaphors with the festivals visitors to address local issues; gender and equality, tradition and modernity, migrants and works rights and many others.
Pre & Post Event Graphics
For live-streamed conferences & meetings, pre event images & presentations, beautiful digital agendas & post event rich pictures to map & consolidate content. Images work online to bring depth, warmth and humanity to the experience, to link up ideas and engage the brain more completely by aiding memory and creative thinking.
British Council – DICE
“We were delighted to find Blanche Ellis in this wide world, to help us shape how our global team understands, articulates, visualises and ultimately communicates an ambitious, but complex, pilot initiative… I couldn’t recommend her enough.”
– Becky Schutt – Head of DICE – British Council
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