KELPWORKS

BRING YOUR BEST IDEAS TO THE SURFACE

We bring visual thinking to your organization.

We’re visual notetakers and workshop facilitators with decades of experience with the private, nonprofit, academic, and government sectors. 

We design and facilitate experiences that bring people, knowledge, and processes together to create alignment around your goals. We use collaborative methods with real humans in the room, and leave you with engaging content that you can use to take your projects forward.

We’re great listeners and systems-thinkers, and we make great thought partners too.

An illustration of a business presentation with a woman pointing to a chart on a poster that says "Customer Panel". The poster has diagrams labeled "Future" and "First". Four seated people are listening to the presentation, with two women and two men.

What we do has many names: scribing, graphic facilitation, graphic recording, and sketchnoting.

It’s simple: we translate complex ideas into words and images, often in real time.

VISUAL
NOTETAKING

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Our tailored workshops reveal opportunities for your company. We’ll guide you throughout the process so you can focus on what matters most to you. 

Collaborative
workshops

A person writing on a paper titled 'Opportunities' with the sections 'Strengths' and 'Weaknesses'.

We’ll collaborate with you to craft visual assets that drive your message with clarity, brand consistency and personality.

strategic illustrations

WORK SAMPLES

  • A colorful illustrated poster discussing community development ideas, including housing, environment, transportation, water levels, and education, with drawings of houses, trees, water, and people.

    Envision Resilience 2026 Challenge | Harpswell & Bath: Community Insights

  • A colorful illustrated infographic emphasizing the importance of community connection, storytelling, listening, sustainability, and engaging with nature. It features drawings of a person with a lightbulb in their head, an hourglass, a whale, a city skyline, trees, a speaker with music, and speech bubbles with text highlighting key concepts.

    ENVISION RESILIENCE | Connecting with the COMMUNITY

  • A detailed hand-drawn mind map about reflections, including themes such as support, acceptance, stories, timing, and unity. It features sketches of people, symbols, and quotes emphasizing connection, community, and personal growth.

    Reflections

  • A colorful illustrated infographic titled 'Coded Bias' with images of three women and various handwritten text and symbols discussing artificial intelligence, bias, and personal experiences with facial recognition technology.

    Coded Bias

  • A colorful illustrated infographic titled "The Aftermath of Fast Fashion" discussing the impact of fast fashion and recycling textiles in Ghana. It includes sections on background research, multi-level problems, social justice, environmental engineering, and collaboration, with illustrations of textiles, a mountain, a landfill, a bottle, and a cityscape. The infographic mentions visitors to the Smithsonian and emphasizes the need for policy, awareness, and systemic solutions.

    THE AFTERMATH OF FAST FASHION

  • A colorful illustrated mind map centered around the theme of a fireside chat about technology, innovation, and AI. The map includes topics such as acquisitions, reforms, investment, growth, enablers, ecosystem, and tools, with notes on modernization, production, sharing, and testing.

    FIRESIDE CHAT

  • A colorful illustrated infographic titled 'A PLAN FOR THE PLANET: THE ARCTIC & BEYOND' with various notes and drawings related to climate change, global warming, and environmental solutions. Key points include youth activism, melting ice, Arctic fires, the Vegas rule, carbon neutrality, renewable energy, and the importance of policy, science, and community action.

    A Plan for the Planet: The Arctic & Beyond

  • Colorful illustrated infographic discussing social network interventions, US health policy, drug development, environmental issues, and public health strategies with diagrams, icons, and text.

    ISPOR Tradeshow

  • Colorful illustrated map highlighting various activities and features at Valley Falls Heritage Park, including wildlife, nature sounds, community engagement, art, shade, flowers, herbs, food, safe spaces, connectivity, and sensory experiences.

    Hopes & Dreams for Valley Falls Heritage Park

  • Colorful infographic depicting community development strategies and plans, including roadmaps, data analysis, partnerships, and civic engagement for the New Hanover community endowment.

    Spring 2025 Public Meeting

  • Colorful illustrated poster titled 'Survive or Thrive in a Recession' with handwritten notes, icons, and drawings discussing strategies for business resilience during economic downturns.

    Survive or Thrive in a Recession

  • A colorful illustrated infographic on disruptive innovation, including concepts like connecting ideas, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting. It features sections on low-end disruption, influence, DNA, and the four steps of the innovator's method: insight, problem, solution, and business model, with various sketches of light bulbs, gears, and people.

    Disruptive Innovation

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Some of Our Clients

  • IDEXX Laboratories logo with black text on a white background

  • MacArthur Foundation logo with dark blue text on a white background.

  • Capgemini logo with the company name in blue text and a stylized blue swirl icon

  • Oliver Wyman logo featuring two interlocking shapes above the company's name.

  • USAID logo with the text 'FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'

  • Logo for the city of Boston.

  • Logo of Envision Resilience with a stylized leaf design and company name

  • Silhouettes of trees against a dark sky with a crescent moon