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…

  • retro fitted

    Retro fitted presentations are really not very good….

  • format changes

    Format changes often when a presentation is moved…

  • type not font

    Type not font influences the reception of a…

  • sans comic sans

    Life is better sans comic sans. Fontography is…

  • Least important part of any presentation

    The p2, the supportive media, is the least…

  • No caption required

    In a scientific article an illustration or a…

  • Single image per slide

    When constructing a slide use only a single…

  • On generic slides

    Generic slides are designed so that “anyone can…

  • data slides (1)

    Data slides fail in a good scientific presentation…

  • Can you see this at the back?

    The p2 is usually constructed on a laptop…