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…

  • Thank you!

    I was recently working with a colleague who…

  • That’s not what I meant by that picture

    A picture can paint a thousand words. It…

  • Here is a picture of a journal article

    If you want to read a journal article,…

  • Lessons from the Sensei (i) effective visual message

    I was privileged to spend time recently with…

  • What is the best presentation software?

    What is the best presentation software? There’s a…

  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

    The best books, the best films and the…

  • Lists only work for shopping

    If your p2 is a list You will…

  • What single purpose are your slides for?

      The challenge in improving presentations is significant….

  • No titles

    This is one of the greatest British Olympians…

  • Less is more. Or fewer, in fact.

    Less is more in design. The same applies…