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Sponsorship: Graphic Recorders Australia
March 19, 2021
Sketch Group is proud to sponsor an Associate Membership in
 Graphic Recorders Australia (GRA), the professional membership body for graphic recorders in Australia, for Rhys Paddick, a proud Noongar man from Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia).


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Podcast: The Sketchcast, Episode 2
September 18, 2020
The second episode of The Sketchcast is released, wherein Matt talks to San Francisco-based creator of data visualisations, Shirley Wu, about all things dataviz (with a healthy dose of Hamilton, The Musical thrown in for good measure).


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Award: The Telly Awards
June 1, 2020
Sketch Group has won a prestigious Telly Award for the Defining Moments in Australia's History video series, created for the National Museum of Australia. Read more.


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Podcast: The Sketchcast, Episode 1
May 2, 2020
Sketch Group's founder, Matthew Magain, has launched The Sketchcast, a new video podcast teaching you how to use sketching to be amazing. We chat to interesting people to find out how they are using sketching and visuals to change the world. In the first episode Matt talks to Ben Crothers about online facilitation.


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Event: VizConf 2019 
October 19, 2019
Sketch Group co-hosted the second annual VizConf conference, Australia's largest annual gathering of visual practitioners, featuring world-renowned lettering expert Heather Martinez and celebrated Melbourne-based artist Sarah Firth. View photos, videos and more.


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Podcast: Visual Friends Radio
September 3, 2019
Matthew Magain co-hosted the Visual Friends podcast with Marcel Van Hove, as they chat with the opening keynote speaker from the upcoming VizConf 2019 conference, Sarah Catherine Firth.


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Book: The World of Visual Facilitation
August 3, 2019
Matthew has contributed three chapters to the newly released book The World of Visual Facilitation: Unlock Your Power to Connect People & Ideas. The book was launched at the IFVP conference in New York City in August, 2019, and features contributions from 50 experts and visual pioneers from across the globe.


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Event: TEDxDocklands
February 21, 2019
Sketch Group was engaged by the TEDxDocklands conference to visualise the full day of inspiring presentations on the topic of Mind Over Matter. View videos of the talks and sketches from the day. 


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Publication: Educational Leadership Magazine
December 17, 2018
Sketch Group founder Matthew Magain contributed some examples of type empathy to, and was quoted in, the latest issue of Educational Leadership magazine, focussing on the topic of visual thinking.


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Event: VizConf 2018
October 18, 2018
​This inaugural event was held in Melbourne and attracted nearly 100 visual practitioners from across the Asia Pacific region. Organised by the teams at Sketch Group and Visual Friends, the event featured US-based author Sunni Brown and local pioneer Jessamy Gee, and was a huge success. View photos and read more.


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Award: Mumbrella Publish 2018
September 27, 2018
​The Sketch Group team has won big at the 2018 Mumbrella: Publish awards, taking out best short-form video for the whiteboard animation "What is Blockchain?" for CPA Australia.


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Podcast: Visual Friends Radio
September 23, 2018
​Matthew Magain sat down with the host of the Visual Friends Radio podcast, Marcel Van Hove, to discuss all things visual thinking and the upcoming VizConf conference with best-selling author and speaker Sunni Brown. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2.


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Event: EuViz 2018 Conference
Rungstedgaard, Denmark

July 30, 2018
Matthew Magain hosted a session at EUviz 2018 on the future of technology in visual practice, including demonstrating some recent experiments with using virtual reality tools to capture conference presentations in real time.


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Podcast: Sketchnote Army 
June 23, 2018
​Matthew Magain had a chat with veteran sketchnoter Mike Rohde about how he got started, and the role that technology—in particular, virtual reality—plays in the world of sketchnoting and visualisation.


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Book: Presto Sketching
May 15, 2018
​Matthew Magain was featured in a new book by Ben Crothers, called Presto Sketching: The Magic of Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design. The book is available in Australia through Graphic Gear.


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Award: Australian Marketing Institute 2017
December 1, 2017
Sketch Group was shortlisted as a finalist in the AMI awards in the Best Video category, for our Surge Capacity video, created for the Victorian Fire Brigade Volunteers.


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Book: Pencil Me In
August 12, 2017
Matthew's work is included in a new book by Christina Wodtke, called Pencil Me In: The Business Drawing Book for People Who Can't Draw.


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Workshop: IFVP 2017 Conference
Atlanta GA, USA

July 29, 2017
At the annual conference run by the International Forum of Visual Practitioners, Matthew Magain ran a half-day workshop for attendees on how to create a sketch video.


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Podcast: Visual Friends Radio
January 9, 2017
Matthew Magain was interviewed on the Visual Friends Radio podcast about the process of making a sketch video. Listen to the podcast.


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Event: UX Alive
Turkey Istanbul
June 2016
Matthew Magain delivered a presentation to User Experience practitioners on the value of using softer skills, such as sketching, facilitation, and storytelling, outside of their immediate role.


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Event: UX New Zealand
Wellington, NZ

November 2015
At the inaugural UX New Zealand conference in Wellington, Matthew Magain gave a short, hands-on presentation packed full of tips on how to draw.


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Workshop: Microsoft Ignite
Gold Coast, Queensland
November 2015
Matthew Magain delivered a short session on sketching tips for programmers.


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Event: UX Australia
Sydney, Australia
​August 2015

​Matthew Magain delivered a full-day workshop on how to design user experiences.​


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Event: UXID
Jakarta, Indonesia
November 2014

​Matthew Magain delivered a series of workshops on sketching and designing user experiences.


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Workshop: UX Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

July 2014
Matthew Magain delivered a series of workshops on sketching and designing user experiences.


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Event: UX MNL
Manila, Philippines

July 2014
Matthew Magain delivered a series of workshops on sketching and designing user experiences.


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Event: Web Directions
Sydney, Australia
September 2013
​Matthew Magain delivered a full-day workshop on sketchnoting in conjunction with the Web Directions conference series.


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Book: The Sketchnote Handbook
August 2013
​Matthew Magain was featured in in a two-page spread in the highly praised book The Sketchnote Handbook, by Mike Rohde.


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Video: What the #$%@ is UX Design?
August 2012
​Matthew Magain uploads his first sketch video to YouTube: a 5-minute explainer that answers the question What is UX Design?. The video has since been viewed nearly 1 million times.

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Event: Microsoft Tech•Ed
Gold Coast, Queensland
August 2011

Matthew Magain delivered a presentation to 3,000 developers about the pursuit of perfection.

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