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Oops – says the “designer”

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a TLC project, just something left on the door of my residence.

Oops, guess the designer did not think the restaurant name would be missed when the door hanger die the printer spec’d was used.

This is printed really well: good stock, ink coverage, aqueous coating, trim and die. But the design obviously did not account for the die that put a hole where the company name was. Looking closer, other design questions come up: what is the capitalization standard? What is the punctuation standard? Were 7 font styles too many?

I hear it very often, about how someone’s nephew is great with the computer and designed the company brochure – the guy in the end cubicle on the 4th floor has Photoshop on his computer and can create the event banner – the IT department is setting up the webpage (the registration backend page) and has been asked to also create the PowerPoint template.

These people are great and often creative. The downside is when the general person does not know, or understand, the technical needs of the design, the company branding, or just good design principles the results are not ideal. A company’s image suffers, users with improperly setup files suffer, or money is just wasted….

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:06:47-07:00November 22nd, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Time at Microsoft with the PowerPoint Team

This week, I have been a guest at Microsoft’s corporate campus in Bellevue, WA for an MVP Summit. I have spent each day in meetings with the PowerPoint program managers, devs and other PowerPoint MVPs. This proves to always be an insightful time and a good investment of my time. Just a few photos from the past few days:

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:07:29-07:00November 20th, 2013|Personal|

1 of 36 (PowerPoint MVPs Worldwide)

Last month, I was very excited to announce Microsoft extended the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for PowerPoint recognition to me for another year, my 10th year. A few people asked how many MVPs for PowerPoint there are.

On the Microsoft MVP site, it lists 36 PowerPoint experts in the MVP program. Later this month, I will be on the Microsoft campus in Washington state with many of the other MVPs in sessions with the PowerPoint Program Managers and Devs going over feature requests, issues and providing insight into real-world use of PowerPoint.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:09:00-07:00November 8th, 2013|Personal|

Monte Carlo Show

Monaco has been a wonderful location for a meeting! Local AV crew have been great, hotel-town-and views all fantastic, and of course the amount of PowerPoint presentation needs incredible. Lori and I are wrapping up a week of meetings and taking the long flight back to California in a few days.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:09:18-07:00November 8th, 2013|Personal|

San Diego Show

Things are exciting at TLC Creative Services as we have more and more multiple shows happening simultaneously. This week, I am in Monaco, Amber has been in New York and Jennifer in San Diego.

Jennifer has been handling the pre-show design and showsite presentation execution in San Diego for a great end client and production company.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:09:46-07:00November 6th, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|

NOLA and Lexus

This week has been a great show in New Orleans. Lexus group is a fantastic crew to be a part of, has fantastic staging and allows us to develop fantastic presentations (not a single bullet point in 300 slides!)!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:11:30-07:00October 23rd, 2013|Personal|

Lots of Screens in Orlando

I have been in Orlando this week on a good show. The General Sessions I ran had multiple stages with screens on either side to fill the entire Ballroom.

Thanks to Paul Chrisope for the pictures and for demo-ing the new GoPro camera super wide angle capabilities. And keeping things sane!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:12:03-07:00October 18th, 2013|Personal|

SnagIt OneClick – How to Disable

As a designer, SnagIt is one of my most valued go-to apps. But even the best software sometimes creates problems. In the latest version of SnagIt, a new feature, “OneClick,” (at least this is the first version I have noticed it) just gets in the way. The concept is to have an onscreen button to activate SnagIt vs. a keyboard command.

OneClick puts a small red button at the top of your screen.

Click the red button and a small menu drops down, allowing easy access to many of the SnagIt tools and settings.

The dilemma is that the button is ever present, sitting on top of everything: windows, apps, slide shows! This is not good and something that took a bit of investigating to figure out how to turn off. Half the effort is knowing the name of this unwelcome feature – OneClick.

To turn off, open SnagIt, click the VIEW menu and click SNAGIT ONECLICK. This is an on/off toggle, so it should now be removed from your screen. You may also see a TURN OFF ONECLICK option in the Quick Launch dialog in the left action pane.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:12:50-07:00October 9th, 2013|Personal, Software/Add-Ins, Tutorial|

Desk with a View

Earlier this week, I was in Washington DC as the showsite Graphics Op/presentation designer. Great event (even with the government shutdown that cancelled a number of the scheduled presenters). There was a lot going on for presentations, videos, live camera and more. My “desk” requirement was room for 6 computers – here is my setup with 5 of those computers (one is an external monitor):

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:14:30-07:00October 5th, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|
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