Your Graphic Recorder and Business Illustrator from Berlin

Whether it’s a workshop, project, or conference: a visualization will improve communication and foster interaction! For over 12 years, my visuals help to better understand, shape, and manage complex topics and processes.

Christian Ridder, graphic recorder and visual facilitator from Berlin

Professional visualizations

Business visualization

During an event or workshop, the most important topics and contributions are visualized live on a large poster: visually, structured, and engaging for everyone.

Strategy, vision, or process visualizations help make complex issues tangible for all, and communicate them within the team, project, or company.

Step by step, strategies, processes, or complex products and services are explained: individually, attractively, and social media-ready.

Hand-drawn illustrations and cartoons sympathetically and humorously convey your company values, leadership principles, products, and services.

In the workshop, a common image is created with the participants. With the help of visualization, information is gathered, new perspectives are uncovered, and ideas are developed.

Large video conferences and online workshops are communicatively challenging. Online visualization on a digital whiteboard promotes exchange and creativity.

Industries and Application Areas

What added value do graphic recording, “big pictures”, illustrations or explanatory films offer your industry?
Typical challenges, application scenarios, solutions, and examples for:

Learn to Visualize

Training, Book, and Card Set

Discover the joy of drawing and the added value of visualizing for your work! With tips and tricks, you will quickly achieve your first practical results.

This comprehensive guide teaches you how to organize your thoughts, design processes, and convey messages convincingly with visualizations.

This card set for use in workshops, consulting, and training includes 50 metaphorical visual motifs for reflecting on complex work situations.

Use ready-to-use templates

Online Shop for Visualization

In the search for creative solutions, a change of perspective is often needed. The workshop posters with metaphorical motifs stimulate imagination, encourage interaction, and contribute to new insights!

Do you want to capture your audience’s attention and convey abstract topics engagingly? The animated PowerPoint templates help you present your message interactively and convincingly.

In video conferences, it is often a challenge to actively involve participants. Collaborative work on a digital image template is fun, fosters creativity, and strengthens the sense of togetherness.

Christian Ridder

About me

Visualizing is not “just” drawing, but also: listening, understanding, analyzing, creating structure, filtering, and categorizing. Often also questioning, explaining, and inspiring.

My background as a product designer, as well as practical experience from over 400 visualization projects, help to myself familiar with new topics fast and find suitable visuals.

Customer testimonials

We always like to invite Mr. Ridder to our conferences to visualize the content with a graphic recording. This is not only a great crowd puller on site, but it also helps us to use the attractively prepared content afterwards, e.g. in the form of a poster.

Johannes von Mulert, Managing Director

“Christian Ridder provided us with excellent support in our strategy process. Together with our colleagues from the USA, we developed a meaningful strategy picture. The professional preparation, implementation and moderation contributed significantly to the success of the online workshop. The digital concept worked really well!”

Global Product Management Powertrain

How do we make the vision of a smart city visible and understandable? Thanks to Christian Ridder’s unparalleled creativity and enthusiasm for implementation, we now have a clear strategy picture and an explanatory video – an enormously helpful communication tool that is particularly valuable for public participation. Thank you for the great collaboration!

Britta Murawski

“Christian Ridder has the fascinating gift of being able to quickly familiarize himself with unfamiliar subject areas while still maintaining an outside perspective. His illustrations are spot on, the symbolism accurate and yet with wit and charm. He really helped us to visualize the path to achieving our goals and explain it to the team – thank you very much and see you soon!”

Frank Wall

“Christian Ridder, our very own conference artist managed to transform and distil the complex world of water into a brilliant visually engaging approach to river restoration, which took up an entire wall of the conference center!”

ERRC Conference Newsletter

“Not to be forgotten are the truly profound and witty caricatures by C. Ridder. He knows how to depict complex issues in just one picture and to underline the content of the book in the truest sense of the word.”

Customer review of the process consulting manual

Example Projects

Energy Innovation Forum The graphic recordings show the challenges and solution perspectives for energy suppliers and distribution system operators.

E-Invoicing Exchange Summit These graphic recordings show how the purchase processes between buyer and supplier are digitalized, from the order to taxation

Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) Visualization of pilot projects to research and improve the ecological and economical sustainability of RAS

Product Safety in the Chemical Industry REACH, CLP, and market surveillance enhance safety in the chemical industry, visually depicted as a graphic recording.

E-Invoicing Summit Graphic recording of the E-Invoicing Summit. How can digitization succeed from ordering to invoicing and payment?

Sustainable Sports Events The goals, topics and use of the web portal "Sustainable Sports Events" are explained in an explanatory video.

How can I support you?

Are you planning a conference, corporate event or workshop and would like to find out more about the benefits and practicalities of graphic recording?

Or would you like to communicate complex issues in a visual and easy-to-understand way and learn more about the joint development of vision, strategy and target images?

If you would like to visualize yourself, you can find out more about training opportunities and my book and card set “Understanding, designing and controlling with images” here

In the download store you will find PowerPoint and workshop templates with metaphorical images.

We can discuss together how I can best support you!