About David Margolis - The Slide Guru
Hi, I’m David Margolis, the creator of Slide Guru. I’m glad you found your way to my website. As a Presentation Specialist, I’ve spent the last 10 years designing high-level presentations, delivering executive keynotes, developing corporate pitches, creating brand guidelines and innovating presentation systems across a wide variety of industries that include Advertising, Sport, Finance and Telecoms. Over my career I’ve designed over 50,000 slides. My new goal is to share the best of my portfolio with you. [/slider_custom]
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47 Top Typography Tools and Resources
Typography is the foundation of design on the web. Back in 2006, designer and founder of iA Oliver Reichenstein even went so far as to proclaim "web design is 95% typography." It's imperative, then, to have a thorough, grounded education in optimizing and utilizing typography to create a balanced, harmonious, accessible hierarchy of content, when working on the web. To help you improve and learn more about typography, we have compiled 25 useful tools and resources, from fundamentals to modular scales. Have we left out your favorite typography tool or resource? If so, please share your recommendations with other readers in the comments. 1. Founded in 2008, Typekit offers a library of fonts, from old classics to new favorites, which can be used on the web. The browsing interface is well organized. 2. Recently acquired by Monotype, Typecast provides a platform to quickly style type in the browser and check for readability, rendering and beauty as you work. 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
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Illusions in Data Visualization
Data visualizations are effective ways for inputting information into a human’s brain, and as Visual Analytics Researcher at Tableau Software and Visual.ly advisor Robert Kosara says, visualizations are what makes our world real. But even when the people who created the visualization are being honest, we can’t always trust what our eyes are showing us. We’ve evolved our visual perceptual system over millions of years (some other animals see optical illusions too) and it is extremely effective at what it does, but it still has some quirks. Sometimes it takes shortcuts to make things efficient, and those shortcuts are exposed in optical illusions. In a data visualization context, illusions are dangerous because they can make us see things that aren’t really there in the data. There are two main types of optical illusions: Physiological and Cognitive. Physiological Physiological illusions happen because of the way our sight systems physically work. Cognitive
2000 Free Photoshop Patterns - Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag
Resources 650+ Free Photoshop Patterns May 26, 2010 by Steven Snell 71 Comments 74981 views The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available. You’ll find some individual patterns as well as many packs of multiple patterns. Seamless Subtle Patterns (15 patterns) Powered by Shutterstock Paisley Photoshop Patterns (8 patterns) Skull Patterns (2 patterns) Floral Photoshop Patterns (4 patterns) Flower Photoshop Patterns (6 patterns) Different Texture (1 pattern) Hand-Drawn Scrolls (1 pattern) Antique Engraved (1 pattern) Stylized Clouds (1 pattern) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns (6 patterns) Grungy Natural Beige Patterns 2 (6 patterns) Floral (1 pattern) Leafy Set (3 patterns) Gypsy Garden (1 pattern) Late Bloomer (3 patterns) Hexagonal Patterns (72 patterns) Damask (1 pattern) Charcoal Damask (1 pattern) 0 shares
The Art Of Timelines For Learning
Sharebar Click for large version on Wikipedia Now that infographics have entered our consciousness, we no longer need to think of timelines as events placed on a generic horizontal arrow. Why use timelines? Timelines provide structure. Timelines enable chunking. Timelines are a good source for interactions. What topics work with timelines? Here are a few possible categories of topics that can work in a timeline format. Evolution of a company productChanges in relevant regulationsProgression of industry eventsExplaining a linear process or procedureHistory of a company or organizationEvents in the life of an influential personSocial changes and trends over timeGrowth or history of technologies in an industryTelling any kind of story in sequenceHistory of a relevant city, town or region What are some examples of timelines? So glad you asked. Using a map for a timeline. Using a series of slides for a timeline. Using a trend graph for a timeline.
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The Visual Language of Timelines
Time is often considered to be a subjective experience—it seems to pass quickly or it drags on and on. Structuring time with timelines, however, provides a sense of stability and objectivity. It’s a way to give temporal events a framework so we can show how occurrences relate to each other. Essentially, timelines provide a way to tell a story. Elements of Timeline Language To understand a graphical timeline, the viewer needs to understand both its conventional and novel visual language. A way to depict the trajectory or path of time (conventionally, these run left to right or top to bottom)Elements that define each point or segment of time (often a line or shape)Elements that define each event (text and/or graphic)Text labels and call-outs (used on the trajectory and elsewhere) Timeline Examples As visualizations grow in popularity, timelines use ever more creative visual language to communicate through shape, color, movement and imagery. 3D Spiral Timeline Highly Interactive Timeline
