beyond tellerrand 09–11 Dec 2013 Düsseldorf • Germany

Eva-Lotta Lamm

Portrait of Eva-Lotta Lamm taken at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf 2021 by Norman Posselt

Eva-Lotta is a User Experience Designer and Illustrator. She grew up in Germany, worked in Paris for a few years and is now based in London, UK where she works as an Interaction Designer at Google.

Besides her daytime mission of making the web a more understandable, usable and delightful place, she regularly takes sketchnotes at all sorts of talks and conferences and has self-published her notes in several books.

Eva-Lotta also teaches sketching and is interested in exploring the area of Visual Improvisation - looking at the parallels between sketching and improvisation to explore how some of the principles from her regular theater improvisation practice can be used to inspire visual work.

Talk: Kickstarting your Sketching and Visual Thinking skills

This is going to be a practical and hands-on session.

Eva-Lotta will show you some basic techniques to get sketching your ideas. You'll get some hands-on practice on how to sketch simple objects, people and faces.

Eva-Lotta will also share her thoughts on practicing and playing to develop your ideas and skills.

If you think you are rubbish at sketching and want to get a fun kick-start to getting into using pen and paper, this session will be just right for you.

Get your pens ready!