CSS Gallery, News, Tutorials & Community. 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.1. Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint. In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations. Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started! Also be sure to check out 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.2! Not a Designer? Most of the content on this site is targeted specifically towards professional designers and developers, or at the very least those interested in getting started in this field. You’ve chosen a visual tool to communicate and should therefore take the time to learn a thing or two about visual communications.
Follow the ten tips below and see if you don’t start getting comments about your awesome presentation design skills. Kuler Piknik. 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don't Suck: Pt.1. 5 Super Easy Illustrator Typography Tricks. Beautiful typography goes much further than finding the right font. Today’s post will help you break out of the nasty habit of simply typing out a headline and calling it a day by showing you how to craft standard text in Illustrator into something more interesting and unique.
Below you’ll find a fairly random collection of tricks that I’ve picked up in the last few years. Each method is highly open to interpretation and you should definitely try to tweak and customize them to your own preferences. Scribbled Text The first technique is super easy and a little cheesy, but with a little creativity you can create some nice applications. From here you can create your own settings or simply choose one of the presets. I like to double up on this technique to really push the illusion of hand-drawn text.
Embellishing Scripts There are tons of free fonts and vectors online that really aren’t anything more than a few swirls. Rounded Corners Easy 3D Text Playing With Letter Forms Conclusion. Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts.