This was a fun project that brought back memories of my sister from years ago. The Cabbage Patch kids relaunched had the marketing team needing a template for their "marketing stuff". - Troy @ TLC more »

This June is the release of The Green Lantern movie. For a recent meeting I did not have the opportunity to hang out with real Green Lantern - the lantern used in the movie, not the actor. Still very cool. (The small one, not the super-sized promo versi… more »

On this template project we worked out the technical needs (PPT 2007, color scheme, logo, etc.), but there was no input on design direction. So the project evolved with an initial design blitz of layout and design styles. Based on a continuous input the… more »

Last week when working on the East Coast, a different time zone than home, I was asked how I managed to keep track of things in the different time zones. Windows 7 has a great little feature to add multiple time zones to the clock. 1. Click the time… more »

Last week SlideRocket, which I like a lot, announced there "It's 'Say No To PowerPoint' Week" promo. But the tagline really got me wondering how they define a presentation. "SlideRocket is celebrating national "Say No to PowerPoint Week" by challengi… more »

Microsoft has featured TLC Creative Services on the MS Office Blog this week for our use of Excel and MS Web Apps in tracking design projects. The irony is it features our use of Excel - and no one here will admit they are great at working in Excel.… more »

In PPT 2003 and 2007 we used the 'Ascend' and 'Descend' entrance animations. In PPT 2010, the same animation effect has been renamed "Float Up" or "Float Down". **** - Troy @ TLC more »

PPT 2003 and 2007 gave us the 'compress' entrance animation, which I have used lots. In PPT 2010 it is mysteriously missing from the animation options. But is it really gone? To get it back, here is one solution: Create a single slide presentation i… more »

Flying across country to meetings has a few advantages; no cell phone, no internet/email and lots of time to catch up on reading. Earlier this week I caught up on some magazines. Time magazines Person of the Year issue had several great articles. T… more »

At a recent event I attended one speaker was dynamic, engaging and a very good speaker. He did not have a PowerPoint presentation and did not need one to hold the audience attention. But it was distracting to have the large blank screen above him. Di… more »