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Occasionally, I come across a book or two that offers up some great PowerPoint content. Most recently, I started to read: “Presentation Zen Design” by Garr Renyolds There were some information nuggets that were helpful to a fellow graphic designer who is seeking to create powerful PowerPoints for clients. As seen on the jacket of this book, [...] Wow. That about says it all, doesn’t it? “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.” Quoted in a New York Times article, by Brig. General H. R. McMaster, (who, according to the article, “banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005…. by [...] This question is asked a lot – Where do I start? “I have this template and I’ve dropped in some text but I am not sure how to make this more lively. The template isn’t working well and how do I add charts that look good? Oh, and I have these 20 other slides that [...] …to all of you clients out there who are always in a rush…. Year after year, as a graphic designer who works on a Mac, I am asked if I have learned, or embraced KeyNote (the Mac equivalent of PowerPoint). Now believe me – I would LOVE to. I have tooled around in that program enough to know that it is very powerful, easy-to-use and has so many [...] After an email exchange with a health corporation in NYC, and the request to help them “clean-up” a presentation, I said, “Just call me the maid-service for PowerPoints… sweeping and cleaning them up.” And that’s a lot of what I do on a daily basis for presentations. Cleaning them up. A lot of times a template has [...] Over the years, I have spend a many hours prepping bids and creating estimates for clients interested in a PowerPoint. Sometimes it’s a new, fresh design. Sometimes it’s a redesign or an “upgrade.” Either way, the time spent is still time spent but there are obviously varying degrees of energy exerted on projects based on [...] Now why would a PowerPoint Queen (who is also well versed in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), be taking the time to talk about creating Word templates? Or (gasp!) actually designing in Word?? Perhaps it is because this has become a new passion of mine. ‘No way!’ you say. ‘How can that be? Who is passionate about [...] Do not use clip art in your PowerPoint, please. Wait. Not strong enough. Do NOT use clip art in your PowerPoint, OKAY?! I am not sure what happens when someone is putting together a presentation. Do YOU like to look at those dinky, poorly drawn drawings? No? Well then, why would you think that someone [...] In the last few weeks, the PowerPoint Queen has received many contacts from some interesting marketing characters (yes, it takes lots of wonderful charm and character to be in marketing!) Many of them are asked to spiffy up their client’s PowerPoints. And many of them can do just that, but also have come to the [...] |
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