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…

  • Which part of your preparation took the most time?

    A great presentation takes time. None of them…

  • reflections on failure

    So, I stepped onto the stage to give…

  • Ok, hands up who DIDN’T fall for it?

    The last blogpost was written and published 2…

  • Design- going retro is hip.

    Slide design (p2) changes with time. Consider today…

  • A red rectangle doesn’t make things clearer

    A bad data slide is not made better…

  • On speaking to a wider audience. Don’t.

    The message you deliver at a presentation may…

  • Design nightmare

    Designers are clever folk and too often abused….

  • On flow charts. Don’t.

    No, just no.Life isn’t like that. It doesn’t…

  • This is a document. I am reading it. Out.

    If you turn on the radio, you can…

  • The best title slide blogpost, ever (ii)

    How does one arrive at a great title…