December 2025: Sketchnote Lab Dispatch
Five cool things, Year-end Survey, Free December Live Lab: Creating Diary Sketchnotes, Sketchnote Lab Video Set, and Sketchnote Army Podcast season 17 wraps up!
Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Sketchnote Lab Dispatch.
Christmas is coming soon, and the New Year is just around the corner. I appreciate your support this year at Sketchnote Lab as I send out this final Sketchnote Lab Dispatch for 2025.
What’s in this issue?
5 Cool Things to share with you.
A year-end survey for you, readers of Sketchnote Lab, is open til Friday!
Free December Live Lab: How to create Diary Sketchnotes on December 20th.
Sketchnote Lab Video Set with all 13 recordings from 2024/2025.
Sketchnote Army Podcast season 17 is now complete with All The Tips
Five Cool Things
Here are five cool things I thought you would enjoy:
❥ 1. World Sketchnote Week 2026! On Sunday, January 11, 2026, we’ll celebrate World Sketchnote Day, and the following week, January 12-16, be sure to attend the free World Sketchnote Week with tons of sessions organized by Ashton Rodenheiser with the biggest names in visual thinking!
❥ 2. Danny Gregory’s Illustrated Travel Journaling - I love travel journaling, and so does illustrator . Check out his sensible, practical approach to capturing your experiences on the road in this helpful video.
❥ 3. Eva-Lotta Lamm’s Visual Starter Kit - If you’re interested in kickstarting your visual practice in 2026, there’s no better way than with my friend Eva-Lotta’s Visual Starter Kit. She also has lots of helpful workshops.
❥ 4. Seeing Eye to Eye: How Visuals Bridge the Generation Gap at Work - My friends at Scriberia have a fantastic article with guidance on using visuals to bridge the generation gap at work. Love it!
❥ 5. How to Develop Your Visual Vocabulary - Friend and visual thinker Zsofi Lang offers a great article on building up your visual vocabulary the easy way. Thanks, Zsofi!
Sketchnote Lab Survey 2025
I would love to hear your thoughts on my work here at Sketchnote Lab for 2025! I’ve created a quick survey with six simple questions for you. Take the survey here:
Thanks for all of your support this year! I’m excited to share what’s in store for 2026 in January.
December Sketchnote Lab Live: Creating Diary Sketchnotes
Join me live on Saturday, December 20th, at 12 noon US Central Time for a free workshop on creating diary sketchnotes!
In this session, I’ll share how to create diary sketchnotes — a visual way to capture your day or reflective experiences using simple sketchnotes. It’s a great way to remember today, this week, or this past year. We’ll make diary sketchnotes together as a group in this session.
Here’s a sample I created in 2025:
The session is free to all subscribers, with the recorded replay video available exclusively to Paid Lab Members (along with all recordings since December 2024).
Sketchnote Lab Sessions Video Set
At the end of this year, at Sketchnote Lab, I’ve gathered all the video recordings from Live Lab sessions since December 2024 and put them all in a downloadable set on Gumroad for $100.
If you’re a Paid Lab Member, you get free access to download these through December 31, 2025, in the Lab Member Resources area. Check it out!
Sketchnote Army Podcast Season 17 is a wrap!
Season 17th season of Sketchnote Army Podcast is a wrap! Check out the popular All The Tips episode featuring tips from Dan Roam, Katya Balakina, Nishant Jain, Cara Holland, Ted Shachtman, Lindsay Wilson and Andrew Park!
My Sketchnoting Workshops are on sale!
Check out my sketchnoting workshop videos to build your lettering, layout, and icon creation skills in your sketchnotes, or to learn my reflective method for creating travel sketchnotes from photos and memories after you return home from your trip:
Last Month’s Sketchnote Lab Posts
Here’s what’s been happening at Sketchnote Lab:
Become a Paid Lab Member and you’ll support my work and have access to all Live Lab recorded replays since December, 2024 to help build your sketchnoting practice!
Custom Sketchnote Workshops
I love teaching teams like yours how to think visually and sketch simply with Custom Sketchnote Workshops.
I've presented workshops at schools: Drexel University, Marquette University, and The University of Michigan; Anne Arundel, New York City, and Fresno school districts.
I’ve also presented workshops for teams at SmugMug/Flickr, Hubspot, Northwestern Mutual, Johnson Controls, Dentsu Creative, and Sibley Memorial Hospital.
I’d love to teach your team as well. Let’s talk!
Thanks again for the chance to share something useful in your inbox!
— Mike
Sketchnote Lab is Mike Rohde’s space designed to bridge the gap between sketchnote theory and practice. The goal is to guide you in integrating sketchnoting into your everyday life. Learn more about Sketchnote Lab.
Mike is the author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook, bestselling books that teach regular people how to start and keep sketchnoting.
He founded the Sketchnote Army and hosts the Sketchnote Army Podcast, where he interviews visual thinkers to understand what makes them tick.
Mike offers recorded, live, and in-person workshops to help accelerate your sketchnoting practice and coaching for personalized, 1:1 sketchnoting guidance.
Become a Paid Lab Member to support Mike’s work.