Speaker Libbi Reed

Libbi is a designer, lettering artist and illustrator who loves helping people visualise their thoughts, transforming their meaningful insights and experiences into creative and engaging sketchnotes. She teaches design, drawing, sketchnoting and typography in the Queensland College of Art design program.

Libbi uses sketchnotes to unpack and make sense of her thoughts, understand complex things, and help her remember what she’s learned. Sketchnotes tap into multiple learning modalities that use more brain power to synthesise and creatively explore an idea differently.

Libbi’s doctoral research focused on sensemaking, which involves making meaning out of information and experiences, and she discovered that sketchnoting is an effective tool for this purpose.

Since teaching sketchnotes at Griffith University, Libbi is excited to move the sketchnote process into personal sensemaking. Using a sensemaking framework with sketchnoting has been invaluable in reaching her goals. At the beginning of 2021, she completed a Doctor of Visual Arts, sketchnoting her way to completion.