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Design & Graphic Facilitation Guide
Design & Graphic Facilitation Guide for Erasmus+ projects
Aims of the tool
To provide graphic designers in Erasmus with a knowledge about design and graphic facilitation basics.
Description of the tool
This guide was created as part of the Erasmus+ training course “VISUALIZE: Tools and Techniques to Share Ideas, Overcome Language Barriers & Foster Collaboration,” a project designed to help youth workers, educators, facilitators, and community organisers communicate ideas in ways that are clear, engaging, and accessible to diverse groups.
The guide introduces ten fundamental design principles: unity, balance, hierarchy, emphasis, rhythm, proportion, pattern, space, movement, and variation. Each principle is explained through simple definitions and visual examples, including materials created or collected by participants during the training. It also presents practical approaches to storyboarding and graphic facilitation, showing how stories, processes, challenges, and strategic goals can be organised visually.
The resource is designed for people who do not necessarily have a background in graphic design. Its purpose is not to teach perfect drawing, but to demonstrate how basic shapes, symbols, composition, visual metaphors, and spatial organisation can make information easier to understand and remember.
The guide can be used when preparing workshops, presentations, posters, educational materials, project plans, group reflections, or strategy sessions. The storyboard section supports users in dividing ideas into clear sequences, while the graphic facilitation templates help teams visualise goals, available resources, risks, obstacles, opportunities, and possible pathways towards change.
At its core, the guide emphasises that visual communication is not only a creative skill. It is also an inclusion tool that can support participation, overcome language barriers, structure complex discussions, and give more people the confidence to contribute. This collection offers a practical starting point for anyone wishing to make learning and collaboration more visual, accessible, and participatory.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5921
This tool addresses
Project Management, Organisational Management
It is recommended for use in:
Training and Networking
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Brno for you, z.s.
in the context of
Erasmus+ youth workers project
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Kateřina Kalábová (on 19 August 2026)
and last modified
30 July 2026
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