Graphic Recording & Visual Note-Taking that Drives Innovation
Alphachimp is a graphic recording and visual facilitation studio. We turn complex ideas into live illustrations that your audience actually remembers.
Who we work with
Alphachimp works best with organizations running high-stakes convenings — conferences, innovation summits, strategy sessions, leadership retreats, and multi-day workshops — where the ideas in the room are too important to lose.
Our clients are typically event planners, innovation directors, learning & development leads, and nonprofit executives at mid-to-large organizations. They come to us when a PowerPoint won't cut it and the conversation needs to be captured in a way people will actually remember.
We've worked with Fortune 500 energy companies, medical researchers, universities, nonprofits, and community organizations.
What we do
Graphic Recording & Live Illustration
We draw your event as it happens — large-scale visual summaries of talks, discussions, and workshops, created live while your audience watches. The result is a visual artifact that captures what was said, what was decided, and what it all meant.
Perfect for: Conferences, summits, strategy sessions, leadership retreats, and community convenings.
Digital Graphic Recording
The same live visual documentation — delivered remotely for virtual and hybrid events via Zoom, Teams, or any streaming platform. Participants see the illustration building in real time on screen.
Perfect for: virtual conferences, online workshops, and hybrid events with remote audiences.
Workshop Facilitation
We don't just draw your meeting — we lead it. Alphachimp designs and facilitates workshops using visual facilitation, design thinking, and collaborative design principles, producing a visual record of outcomes that participants can act on immediately.
Perfect for: strategy development, team alignment, innovation sprints, and leadership development.
Explainer Videos
When your idea is too complex for a slide and too important to lose your audience, Doodles in Motion™ turns it into a hand-drawn animated video. We specialize in healthcare, science, education, and emerging technology.
Perfect for: internal communications, external marketing, patient education, and grant storytelling.
Speak,Teach & Inspire
Peter Durand has spent 25 years in rooms where ideas needed to go somewhere — strategy sessions, healthcare summits, energy conferences, community gatherings, law school classrooms as an adjunct professor at Northwestern university. He doesn't just talk about visual communication. He demonstrates it, live, while he speaks.
Perfect for: conferences, classrooms, internal team training, organizational development, inspiration
Recent Projects & Events
Why we do What We Do
Alphachimp LLC helps organizations turn complex ideas into shared understanding through visual facilitation, graphic recording, and digital storytelling.
In today’s information-saturated world, teams often struggle to stay aligned.
Alphachimp solves this by translating spoken ideas into real-time visuals — sketchnotes, infographics, and live illustrations that spark insight and improve decision-making.
Founded in 1998 by visual facilitator Peter Durand, Alphachimp has supported clients including Fortune 500 firms, universities, and nonprofit organizations. Services include:
Graphic Recording: Capturing events and meetings through live illustration.
Digital Graphic Recording: Visualizing virtual and hybrid meetings using tablets and streaming platforms.
Workshop Facilitation: Guiding teams through design thinking, innovation mapping, and strategy visualization.
Explainer Videos and Animated Whiteboards:
Each project produces a visual artifact—a powerful summary that enhances memory, engagement, and alignment long after the meeting ends.
Alphachimp also offers visual note-taking workshops for educators and professionals who seek to enhance comprehension and creativity. These programs enable teachers and facilitators to utilize visual learning to support literacy, critical thinking, and collaboration across diverse cultures and languages.
The result? A shared visual language that turns abstract strategy into actionable understanding—helping organizations see what they think, understand what they imagine, and act on what they create.
Think Visual Monthly Meetups are FREE monthly in-person events for professionals in any industry looking to expand their visual communication toolkit and be inspired by meaningful stories about the power of creativity and visual storytelling.
Hosted by: Impact Hub Houston
DATE: First Friday of the month
TIME: 10:30 am – 12 pm
LOCATION: The Ion at 4201 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002
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About our Founder
Peter Durand
Often mistaken for Hollywood actor Seth Rogan’s stunt double, Peter is an artist, educator, facilitator, and graphic recorder based in Houston, Texas.
He has worked extensively with corporations, nonprofits, universities, researchers, and healthcare organizations to capture and communicate complex ideas and processes.
Peter is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, teaching presentation design and visual storytelling in the Master of Science in Law Program.
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Get in Touch!
Feel free to drop us a line and let us know how we can help you understand complex situations and make better decisions.
Each project is a little different. We work with our clients and partners to craft something that fits their business needs or social goals.
Send a quick message, SCHEDULE A CALL or create a detailed PROJECT REQUEST.