Thank-you to Graphic Gear for supporting VizConf 2026

We’re excited to welcome Graphic Gear as a sponsor of this year’s VizConf 2026 conference. Graphic Gear is the official reseller of Neuland® products in Australia and New Zealand, and a familiar name to many in our community. If you’ve ever topped up your marker kit, replaced a well-loved nib, or stocked up on visual (more…)

Welcoming Neuland® as a sponsor of VizConf

We’re delighted to announce Neuland® as a sponsor of the upcoming VizConf 2026 conference. If you’ve ever picked up a marker at a visual thinking event and thought, “Ahhh, this feels good,” chances are it was a Neuland® marker. Neuland® has been a long-time favourite in the visual facilitation and graphic recording world, known for (more…)

Get Shiz Done coworking sessions

If you’re anything like us at GRA HQ, you might have a to do list as long as your very tired drawing arm! Our monthly member-only GSD sessions give you a couple of hours on the last Monday of the month as time and space to tackle that list and get it done! The sessions (more…)

GRA Draw Jam

Draw Jams for Members

Our members love to get together for a chance to work on their craft in a fun and relaxing Zoom call! This year our NZ Committee member Issie Loseby is running these sessions.

Masterminds for members

Graphic recorders often find themselves stumbling on conundrums in the work they do and this is where we solve them! The awesome Ben Crothers leads these sessions every couple of months where we jump on Zoom and talk about our work. These sessions are for our current members only. Access is via Zoom which is (more…)

Keeping Your Receipts: Protecting yourself in your practise

Member only event on Zoom Date: 14 April 2025 6pm SA / 6:30pm ET Description: In this session, we’ll pool our collective resources about how to put structures in place that keep client work friendly, clear and safe. Whether you want to know about keeping a legally protective paper trail, setting professional boundaries that stick, (more…)

VizConf 2026 Returns To Melbourne

VizConf is back! After a successful and cozy event in November 2024, VizConf, Australia’s largest coming together of visual thinkers and doers, is returning to Melbourne on January 17 at the beautiful Kensington Town Hall, brought to you by Graphic Recorders Australia.  Whether you work as a professional graphic recorder or are just curious about weaving basic (more…)

Better Insurance: Professional Membership Just Got More Valuable

This time last year we made a big announcement that GRA Professional Membership would become even more useful—members would have access to both Public Liability and Professional Indemnity insurance, just for being a member. While this was a huge benefit for our members, the scope of the insurance at the time included a very narrow (more…)

The 6 Lenses of Graphic Recording

I’m always looking at ways to explain graphic recording to someone who is new to the field, or to a prospect who has inquired about the surface but never worked with a graphic recorder before. I’ve realised there are actually six lenses through which graphic recording can be viewed. These lenses might seem obvious to (more…)

Welcome NZ Neighbours!

You might have seen some changes over the last few months in our FB page or even on our website… A few sheepish posts here and there? In big news, we are very excited to share that GRA is expanding across the pacific to our neighbours in New Zealand. Tēnā koutou! It only feels right (more…)