When designing a presentation chart, you should focus on clarity and credibility above all else. In order to best explain what I mean by clarity and credibility, I’ve put this visual anatomy of a chart together. Clarity: Hierarchy of titles is clear. The overall message of the page (the top line that says [...]
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Metaphors Series Revisited: Innovation
Last June, we had a series of posts brainstorming possible visuals for metaphors, including: growth, balance, and leadership. In this post, I’ve put together a list of possible images for another theme that I’ve seen in dozens of presentations: innovation. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of innovation is: 1. The introduction of something new 2. [...]
Language for discussing images
When working with clients, we sometimes butt-heads when speaking about images. Not because we have different taste, but because we have a different language when talking about images. We are frequently talking about the same image and agreeing, but because of our different language we don’t see that. To help you avoid future arguments with [...]
Implications of SOPA and PIPA passing on presentation designers
You’re probably thinking, wow Presentation School, you’re a day late! We disagree, these bills will not be debated until February so this issue is still alive and well. If you can, you really truly should use legal images and videos in your presentations when you can (more on why here: Why Legal Images are [...]
Why legal images are good
Many people don’t think much about sourcing images for their presentations. Typically what happens is they go to Google, type in what they’re looking for, see their search results and grab any ole image that comes up in their search results. That’s fine for small internal meetings where you are just trying to explain your [...]
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