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Slides that stick

Helping you design better PowerPoint presentations


I will be around Paris some time this August. I am not sure whether it will work out in the end, but maybe we can organize a meetup in one of my favorite places there. If you are interested mail me at contact [at] axiom [dot] co [dot] il. (Image credit bfraz)


It is important to pay attention to camera positions when selecting images for your presentation. This wave that is about to crash on top of the photographer is a great example. Add some dramatic typography and the audience can almost feel the need to swim to the shore before it's too late.


Image via iStockPhoto.com.

The reading experience on the iPad has influenced the design of this blog. I cut the share buttons, retweet counters, time stamps, etc. What's left is a clean sheet of paper with some ideas to make you a better presentation designer. Now it's purely up to the quality of the content whether ideas here will spread or not. What do you think?

You take a picture of a cloudy sky, and hand write a text with a healthy dose of "glow" and you can create your own skywriting images.


Here is how people used to do this before the age of PowerPoint:


I have been working with PowerPoint 2010 for a few days now, here are some of my first impressions. I am discussing the upgrade from PowerPoint 2007 to 2010. (2003 users: see my earlier post on upgrading to 2007.)

Visual Bee is an Israeli startup that offers a plugin for PowerPoint that can improve slides automatically. At the click of a button it does 2 things:

  1. Transform list of bullets into shapes that are distributed evenly over the slide
  2. Analyzes the words in your bullet points and picks an appropriate background image

The user can choose from a number of styles, that will be applied consistently through your document.

This ad reminds us how easy it is to create a visual concept with elementary shapes and nothing more than basic drawing skills.


Via Ads of the World.

Wonderful, a top 100 of the most over-used buzz words in press releases compiled by Adam Sherk:

Today is the second anniversary of my blog, thank you for reading, commenting, and contributing!

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