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PowerPoint Contest (with Guy Kawasaki)

Slideshare, a new PowerPoint website that looks to me like youtube for PowerPoint, has announced a competition. What makes it interesting is that Guy Kawasaki will be judging.

Here is the announcement I found at The Techsplodder. But interestingly, the press release they show is dated March 19, 2007 – but today is the 18th! Click here to go to the slideshare.net website.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:47:59-08:00March 18th, 2007|PowerPoint|

I’M IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has been a great week spent as a guest at Microsoft.

It has been a painful week – due to some almost unbelievable occurances I have been locked out of the blog and unable to access it. After spending the afternoon armed with lots of notes and suggestions, and working way outside my realm of expertise (ie. PHP administration) I have successfully hacked my own blog database and given myself access once again!

Stay tuned for some delayed photos and highlights from this past week at the Microsoft MVP Summit.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:47:18-08:00March 16th, 2007|Personal|

Align, Equal Size and Balance

On this slide the elements where nice high-resolution images. But they blend together and do not have a strong sense of balance.

The presentation I was working on involved converting all to a 16×9, widescreen, format. Having the extra space was great for this slide, allowing me to keep the images large. From a design perspective each had a black stroke applied to keep it from blending into the background, they were made equal size with the other elements on its row, the left and right elements were aligned with one another and all were equally distributed (horizontally). The overall goal was to help the images stand out as individual elements and be presented in a visually balanced layout – here is the slide developed:

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:46:35-08:00March 9th, 2007|Portfolio|

Oh ,The Colors

It is often beneficial to color code the data. But sometimes to much color makes things difficult to interpret and ends up looking like the circus has arrived. Here is a great diagram that provides a lot of vital information – it just gets lost in all of the colors and shapes.

My goal was to minimize the distracting colors, make the diagram fit within the slide and emphasis the relation and process. Here is the revised diagram:

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:46:07-08:00March 7th, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Great Graphic – For an Engineer

Here is the original graphic provided. It has all the needed information, is nicely balanced, has good contrast – and has all the factors an engineer would appreciate.

Taking the same content, basic layout, and even color scheme, here the revised version of the diagram developed for the (16×9, widescreen) presentation.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:45:31-08:00March 5th, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Accurate Graphic, But Wrong Emphasis

Here the original graphic from a presentation. It is a universal company-wide depiction of their process. No problem, I initially recreated the graphic using the 3D spheres for a more professional look.

But listening to the presenter during rehearsals he was discussing how three elements drive the final element (output). We adjusted the graphic for this presentation to be in line with the message being discussed.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:44:31-08:00March 3rd, 2007|Portfolio|

Show It A Story

Lots of presentations show quotations. Here is the original slide with a lot of quotes – each animates on with a click.

To put the quotes in a visual environment a series of ‘torn paper’ graphics where designed, font sizing and line spacing were also adjusted.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:44:00-08:00March 1st, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Tell the Right Story

Here is the graphic from an original slide.

After discussing with the presenter, the message was not really about a hierarchy, but that all three processes where controlled by one business unit. Here is the revised graphic that was more aesthetic, cooridinated with the presentation color scheme, and showed a more accurate story.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:43:22-08:00February 27th, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Access to PowerPoint

After I have interpretted what the data is saying (relative to content of industry and presentation), the need is to often recreate in a PowerPoint-friendly format. Here is the original provided, an MS Access piece.

To make a clearer, easier to read, symmetrical and more aesthetic graphic here the same data recreated using semi-transparent autoshapes, color coordinated arrows and a layout that was as large as the template permitted.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:42:58-08:00February 25th, 2007|Portfolio|

Knowledge Does Not Equal Design

I had a recent conversation while updating a series of presentations that I found very insightful. The conversation was along these lines:

Client – Thank you for updating all of our presentations, making them look consistent and just ‘better.’

Troy – Thank you for the opportunity to assist.

Client – I can see the ‘graphic designers touch’ over what our engineers do.

Troy – Well, after I actually figure out and interpret what the intended message of the slide is, my biggest goal is to bring focus to it.

Client (and this was the key to the whole conversation) – You know, our people have taken lots of classes on how to use PowerPoint, but there is a big difference between knowing how to add things to a slides, and knowing how to design a good layout.

Over the next few days I will pull some before-and-after examples that focus on redesigning the visual layout of the slide.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:41:49-08:00February 23rd, 2007|Personal, PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|