About me
Ciao! I’m Filippo “Sketchy” Buzzini, a visual practitioner and visual thinking expert based in Switzerland. Through Sketchy Solutions, I help organisations, companies and teams turn complex information into clear and memorable visuals.
I specialise in graphic recording, strategic visualisations, lettering, visual communication trainings and illustration, and I am at ease working in 5 languages (English, French, Italian, German and Swiss German), also simultaneously.
I created Sketchy Solutions in 2017 with the goal of helping my clients communicate more effectively through creative, colourful and meaningful visuals.
My work can be used in many different settings such as conferences, workshops, meetings, strategy sessions, projects, presentations and organisational communication.
My studies, and master’s degree, in history of contemporary societies and geography have taught me to understand, makes sense of and connect the most important information within a complex topic, which allows me to listen and synthetise all kind of information quickly and effectively. My focus is always on the content and on providing a visual summary that is truthful to what has been said and where all the important information is present.
Let me sketch solutions for you!
What I do
I use visual thinking and visual communication to help people understand complex topics, capture conversations and communicate ideas.
I visually document conferences, workshops, meetings and events in real time. As people speak, I identify the key ideas, connections and messages and translate them into a visual summary. In-person or online. Both on paper or digitally.
I turn complex strategies, projects and products into more digestible visual summaries, tailor-made to the customers’ needs.
Visual communication trainings:
I provide introductory trainings on visual thinking, lettering flipchart visualisation and graphic recording. All trainings are hands-on and practice oriented.
Logos, promotional posters, book illustrations, icons, stickers and any other design that can be used by your company or organisation to promote a project, an event or a product.
Experience
Since creating Sketchy Solutions in 2017 my work has taken me to all kind of rooms and places in Switzerland and beyond. I have created visual summaries in 18 countries across all seven continents, working in very different cultural, professional and organisational contexts.
I have worked with several multilateral organisations (UNICEF, the International Committee of the Red Cross or Médecins Sans Frontières) and well-known international companies (Patagonia, Procter & Gamble or Roche) in very disparate sectors. I can count several Swiss higher education institutions among my clients (ETH Zürich, EPFL or the University of Bern) as well as many established Swiss companies (Swiss Post, SBB CFF FFS or the Emmi Group).
A full list of all the non-confidential clients can be found here.
I have collaborated with government offices in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Iceland and Luxembourg. I created awareness visuals against violent extremism for a radio programme in Cameroon and graphic recorded about whales and glaciology in Antarctica. From agricultural consulting conferences in Australia to sustainability in finance in Liechtenstein. From helping small teams find alignment in a strategy session to drawing in front of 1000 people, my experience and flexibility is as broad as the geographies and climates I had the pleasure of working in.
I think that almost any problem could be made clearer through some Sketchy Solutions!
Why the name ‘Sketchy Solutions’?
Sketchy refers to how I work, while Solutions refers to what I offer.
I like the word Sketchy because of its double meaning.
When describing a picture, ‘sketchy’ means “resembling a sketch; consisting of outline without much detail” (Oxford Dictionary). A sketch strips an idea down to its essential elements. It doesn’t try to show everything; it shows what actually matters. This is at the heart of my approach to visual communication: taking complex information and reducing them to simple and understandable drawings.
But ‘sketchy’ can also describe someone or something that is “suspicious, unpredictable, or a little odd” (Urban Dictionary). I like this second meaning because it suggests thinking differently and not always following the most conventional path.
Then there is ‘solutions’, which is “a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation” (Oxford Dictionary).
Put the two together and Sketchy Solutions means: Simple and understandable drawings to solve a problem or a difficult situation.
Let me sketch solutions for you!
Media
End-of-the-year video collection of Sketchy Solutions’ work. From 2018 to 2025.
Exchange with Mike Rohde, one of my professional idols, on his Sketchnote Army Podcast.
Interview with Bikablo (in German) on the challenges of working remotely on a project in West Africa.
Neuland interview with Sandra Dirks:
And here you can find the blog article.
Interview about graphic recording. Cagliari, 06 December 2017:
Video courtesy of CAMINERAS.