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Services

Live graphic recording and visual facilitation for events, organisations, and teams - in Italian, English and French.

Graphic Recording

Tell me your story, and I will draw it!

I listen to and visually translate conversations during events, creating visual maps that capture the big picture of your message. A unique and memorable approach to making content clear, engaging and easily shareable.

Your audience will be intrigued and attentive, while your messages, even the most complex ones, will continue to travel across the web, transforming the event into an experience people remember.

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Training

Discover visual language with me!

I guide working groups in exploring and taking visual notes, and in learning the basics of visual communication. You will discover how visual language can make your communication more inclusive, engaging and effective.

With a few simple steps, you can facilitate deeper understanding and support your team's collaboration in a creative and dynamic way.

Participatory Events

Experiences that leave their mark.

I accompany you and your team in designing and delivering training meetings, workshops, and event sessions that will make your gathering a truly participatory experience.

Together, we will engage participants in creative and interactive activities to inspire and share new ideas, build connections and broaden perspectives.

Graphic Recording:
World Energy Council Annual Event 2024

I translated high-level discussions between international leaders into visual narratives that revealed connections and surfaced tensions, as well as highlighting emerging pathways, working both on digital and analogue graphic recording.

These visual summaries served as documentation and orientation in real time. They helped ideas to travel, supported understanding, and provided a tangible record of the futures being shaped.

Training:
CEMEA Occitanie 2025


I worked with participants of the DEJEPS program: educators and social workers building the practical skills of their profession. Visual facilitation was the entry point as a communication tool.

Through hands-on exercises, participants discovered how simple visual language, made by clear handwriting, basic shapes and accessible structures, can transform the way ideas are shared, discussions are held, and groups are led.

Participatory Events:
ABI Formazione 2024


I designed and facilitated a visual experience around risk management, a topic that could easily become a lecture, but thanks to the visual language, it didn't.

Through a custom visual game, participants moved from audience to co-authors. They interacted, debated, and built shared meaning around a complex theme, together and in real time. Visual tools became the common language: making abstract concepts tangible, giving everyone a way in, and keeping the energy in the room alive.

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Over the last 12 years, I worked with clients in various industries but all united by their understanding of the importance of the visual language. Here are some of them:

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Hi, I am Ilaria Fresa!

I'm a graphic recorder and visual facilitator.
For over twelve years, I've helped organisations turn complex conversations into visual narratives people can see, remember, and build on.

I bring an analytical background in political science and a practice in Non Violent Communication to every room I work in, because good listening is the foundation of everything I draw.

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Client Testimonials

  • “Ilaria amazed me with her capture of a speech I had delivered - the ethos, the emotion, the takeaways - had been captured so well, so humorously. She made such an interesting, rich picture, which was so engaging. I am very impressed and enthused to use this art form more often!”

    — Ash Mukherjee (Zen for Leaders. Intelligence for Cultures. Futures for Organisations. Solutions Partner, Forrester Research)

  • "Your ability to listen to the speakers and translate their content into a graphical recording was amazing! You captured not only the content, but also the context and beautifully illustrated it within the framework of our conference themes. What was even more impressive was the summarization of the conference you provided as you walked everyone through the sketch at the end of the week! You were able to grasp some very specific and technical terms unique to our company and organization and beautifully incorporate them into the graphical story."

    — Laura Ward (Director, Global Presales Manager Hub, GCO - Presales Readiness)

  • “Working with Ilaria as a graphic recorder brought real visual magic to the gathering we facilitated, infusing the process with a sense of vitality and connection to nature that deeply resonated with the theme of regenerative systems. Her live illustrations helped participants see how their work contributes to wider economic systems change, making complex ideas feel tangible and interconnected."

    — Charlotte Millar (Strategist)

  • “We worked with Ilaria on a graphic recording project during an event we organized, and the experience was excellent. Ilaria supported us with great professionalism at every stage: from the initial preparation, to the live work during the event, all the way through to the follow-up. Her visual summaries were not only a valuable tool for structuring ideas internally, but also provided the audience with essential support in visualizing and retaining the most complex concepts.”

    — Jacopo Corno, PhD (CEO Deix s.r.l.)

  • "Ilaria’s skill and creative flair were able to capture complex themes—such as the essence of Article 33 of the Constitution—in real time, and present them to the audience through graphic representations: 10 concept maps resulting from the study conducted by the participants (high school students and undergraduate students from Rome’s universities) to make sport even more accessible and inclusive for everyone."

    — Lorenzo Donzelli (Communications Manager, OPES aps)

  • "Ilaria was the visual artist for our four-day event in Nice, France, in May 2025. She understood our theme, “regenerative as a way of life,” with real depth and translated it into a compelling visual narrative that captured both the ideas and the energy in the room. On the final day, when all participants came together, the graphic provided a clear and powerful summary of what had been created, explored, and learned throughout the event. It helped people see the connections between individual conversations and the larger shared journey. The work has continued to carry value beyond the event itself. Her graphic now sits at the forefront of our organisation’s journey book, giving lasting form to the insights."

    —  Petra Cauwels
    former Operations Manager, Mustardseed Trust