I am currently involved in a project for an aluminium producer with lots of travel. I’ve just got back from Romania, going next to Sierra Leone and China. Updates therefore might be a bit erratic.
The slide is not bad at all, especially after you’ve seen the process all by yourself. The numbers are quite useless here, of course.
Another excellent outline slide, this time from a very stylish church strategy presentation. Yes. A church strategy presentation.
The three visual metaphors are very clear.
I think that’s an excellent slide. I was not able to re-create it despite its apparent simplicity as I don’t have the exact font. But I still like it. Sure it has a lot of text, but this is a sort of “contents slide”, it is repeated several times throuh the presentation so you have plenty of time to read. And its VERY easy to read: the font is just SUPER large. It’s 96 or something. Another thing is that even trivial fonts look beautiful when enlarged. They just do.
The font has to be quite narrow though to fit. This one looks like DIN 1451, which is used for roadsigns widely. I don’t think you have it, but you can create about the same effect with Arial Narrow.
The author is Jesse Robbins and his talk is called DisasterTech. Noble cause as well.
Sometimes I see people using rather crudely drawn stick figures or misshaped and pixelised user icons probably taken from, I don’t know, Google Image Search? Personally I think abstract depictions are cool. And if you are using them anyway, why not do it nicely?
Draw a triangle, smooth the edges (Keynote: either by double clicking them, or by going Format –> Shape -> Smooth Path), add a circle representing person’s head. Then just clone it:
Silhouettes. Easy to find, look great. Give a slide that impersonal feel you need sometimes. Shorts would be a bit more challenging to draw though.
Technically, that’s not a slide, but I don’t see any reasons why it can’t be. The signs below are a bit small, as you might have noticed, but otherwise it’s just perfect. The figures could have been taken from a Webdings font (Webdings’ a bit different but hey) and the shorts drawn as a free-form shape. Takes seconds, looks great. Very informative.
By Craig Robinson.
And what is the deep meaning attached to the basketball shorts comparison, I hear you scream. But did you ever wonder why they’ve become longer? One could write a master’s thesis, if not a PhD. “Why” is a very powerful question. It’s “why” that creates “wow”.
By now everybody must have seen the Brand Gap presentation but I will nevertheless use one slide from it (slightly edited) to make a point.
This is a slide from a presentation made by IBM in 1975. The match between words and image is stunning. I can hear him say those words. Maybe because he was actually meaning them exactly — which, I realize, is not always possible.
I really like slides that (in theory) could be created by anyone within just a few minutes. That’s why I really like this Nokia presentation.
Love: The use of colors and fonts is just perfect. Corners are rounded in a distinctly Nokia kinda way, not in a ubiquitous Apple kinda way.
Hate: Nothing, really. Pictograms might help — although they might as well double (or even triple) the amount of work.