p2

The supportive media (p2) is everything that adds to the story (p1) in its delivery (p3) whether as a presentation or visual aids. If you have visited the site looking for tips on using powerpoint, you will be disappointed. The discussion is around design concepts, use of text in slides, images and data slides used to illustrate and support the message. It is the least important part of a presentation and some presentations may even be better without slides! Most importantly, the .ppt file is not your presentation.

Cornerstone posts include.

p2 posts

Pictures don’t need titles

Imagine a beautiful picture, perhaps a sunset or a portrait, destroyed by patronising words on top of it. If a picture requires words to render it comprehensible the image is…

Miles ahead

  Miles Davis, improvisational jazz wonder developed a new form of jazz outwith the accepted boundaries of music. He eschewed accepted understanding of chords and scales and gave the world…

just for reference- don’t

Big hair, flares, shoulder pads, mini skirts, wide ties, skinny jeans, platform shoes and putting references in powerpoint slides in a tiny font at the bottom of a slide. Just…

reflections on failure

So, I stepped onto the stage to give a Keynote presentation having checked and run through the whole IT setup, twice. The IT guy pressed the button to swap from…

Design- going retro is hip.

Slide design (p2) changes with time. Consider today and what is regarded as the norm for a slide and then consider how “Presenter” (powerpoint) started back before the Internet. At…

  • Consistency is the key

    Consistency adds significantly to a presentation. If you…

  • Less pies

    The use of charts to visually display data…

  • Herding chickens

    The major drawback of text on screen is…

  • Do not use this.

    Fontography 102. The font that you chose to…

  • Fontography 101

    People can get very excited about fonts but…

  • What sort of a presenter are you?

    The quality of a presentation is the product…

  • Don’t get me wrong.

    The reason that most text based presentations suck…

  • It’s not a comic

    The scientific evidence is clear that text on…

  • Dirty secrets on your usb stick

    I’ve been to a few presentations recently where…

  • Presentations fail because science (2)

    Presentations as they are routinely delivered fail because…