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3 Secrets to AWESOME Presentations
Raise your hand if you've ever subjected an audience to Death by Powerpoint. Let's stop killing each other with boring presentations, shall we? Here are three simple, powerful things you can do to transform an average presentation into an awesome one: 1. Don't just share information; TELL A STORY. Most presentations share a common goal: to persuade the audience to take action. What's the best way to persuade someone? What's the best way to get them to attach emotionally? Reframe your presentation like a great story: three acts with two turning points. Nobody likes being sold to, but who doesn't love a great story? 2. Boring presentations are safe presentations. Sometimes the best way to make a presentation more awesome is to go completely overboard. Polarizing slides engage audiences—they get people thinking and talking. 3. The first slide sets the audience's expectation. And the stuff in the middle? What exactly makes a slide "awesome"? Awesome slides make you feel something. Love or hate.
7 Rules for Mixing Multiple Fonts in Good Web Design - Noupe Design Blog
Sep 07 2009 Typography can be one of the most creatively rewarding parts of web design, but it can also be one of the most frustrating. Working with just one or two fonts can be challenging enough for most web designers, yet some still insist on using three, four, seven, or even more fonts in their designs. Some people excel at creating sites with complicated typography, while others fail miserably. Read on to find out tricks to creating fantastic website designs with complicated type, as well as some great examples of sites that get it right, and those that get it wrong. 1. Multiple fonts work best together when they have similar proportion and scale. Fonts don’t necessarily have to be identical in scale and proportion. 2. If you throw up six different fonts on your site, with ten different colors, and four different styles, you’re probably just going to give your visitors a headache (if they stick around that long). 3. You can compensate for heavier or lighter fonts in a few ways. 4.
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
We Made This Ltd
So, we’ve been kinda quiet here of late on the We Made This blog (for which you have our deepest apologies) but we can now reveal why – we’ve been entirely occupied with setting up a fantastic new project. It’s a bit of an epic tale, so, if you’re sitting comfortably, we’ll begin… Way back in April 2008 we posted on our old blog about Dave Eggers’ inspiring TED talk about his brilliant 826 literacy project, and asked if anyone was going to be setting up something similar in London. On the back of that post, thanks to Andrew Hinton, we met up with the wonderful Lucy Macnab and Ben Payne, and chatted loosely about how a London version of 826 might work. Things pootled along gently for a while, until Lucy and Ben secured support for the project from the Arts Council, as well as seed-funding from the JJ Charitable Trust, and things suddenly stepped up a gear, particularly when author Nick Hornby, who had been thinking about setting up something similar himself, joined the gang.
How to Give Effective Presentations: 21 Tips
Most business presentations range from incredibly boring to, well ... just plain boring. I'm sure you have a few offenders within your own team. It doesn't have to be this way, though. Here are 21 ways to make certain that your presentations hold your audience's interest–and help them make the decision you want them to make. Preparation Build a story. Presentation Check your equipment ... in advance. Now send a link to this column to all your colleagues.
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"Dead Drops" preview at Aram Bartholl - Blog
I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. Dead drop (Wikipedia) In the meanwhile drop some files here! 87 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Makerbot)Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo)235 Bowery, NY (New Museum)Union Square, NY (Subway Station 14th St)540 West 21st Street, NY (Eyebeam) Udate: I have to admit I wasn’t prepared for this unbelievable feedback I am got in the recent days. All pics on flickr ! This is my blog. Leave a Reply
18 Tips for Killer Presentations
Jerry Seinfeld has a skit where he points out that studies show public speaking is a bigger fear than death. That means, he claims, that if you are going to a funeral you are better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. While there isn’t a lot you can do to melt away your anxiety, a the best start is simply to make a better presentation. Becoming a competent, rather than just confident, speaker requires a lot of practice. But here are a few things you can consider to start sharpening your presentation skills: 10-20-30 Rule – This is a slideshow rule offered by Guy Kawasaki. What tips do you have for making killer presentations? Read full content
