One of my recent projects was developing a 3 screen presentation for a large corporate event. Each screen was widescreen format (16×9). My goal was to create flowing template art that visually radiates from the center screen to the outer screens. Here are all three screens:
Here is a bit closer look at the left screen:
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To add a professional touch to the aesthetics I create a feathered edge rectangle in Photoshop and save it as a .png with a transparent background.
I make sure it is sized just slightly larger than the movie image/placeholder and then send it BEHIND them. This provides a great aesthetic to the slide by adding some depth to the movie and making it float a bit off the background.
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It has been a road full of design choices – and we have a winner!
(I will let you guess which version of this design was selected)
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Hey this is good stuff! But after some more discussion it was back to Illustrator and PhotoShop for a few more options – so when do I get busy working on those presentations…
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After some discussion regarding colors and use of logo (to include presentation template, event signage and print pieces), it was back to the drawing board for a few more ideas:
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So on this project I was given the theme text, “The Ride of Your Life”, and the visual direction. From there it was up to me to select color scheme, graphics, etc.
Here are the first two logo concepts:
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A recent project had me reminiscing about my childhood. This “presentation” was basically very large wall art to accompany the event theme. Remember doing Spin Art projects…
Using some graphics designed in Illustrator (vector based, exported as .EMF’s, and imported into PowerPoint) and some creative animation I recreated these red spin art elements.
Full presentation had several different spin art elements and was a 9 minute loop. Happily, the SpinArt was a huge success and spun all night long!
To see a quick movie of two of the spin art elements animation click here.
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To add the rounded corners to the table I just cheated a bit…
First I set the upper-left and lower-right cells to no fill (note the text in the upper-left is now the same color as the background and cannot be seen).
Second I created two rounded corner autoshapes. Each filled with same color as the table background and sent to back. I then positioned them to align with the edges of the table.
Finally I grouped all three elements so they could easily be moved. The final result is a table with two rounded corners.
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Tables contain lots of data – but often they do not blend with a presentations overall color scheme or design cues. Here is one example from a recent project that incorporated both the color scheme and design elements.
Color Scheme:
I filled the header bar with same color used for the bullets, bold text, and slide title area. The body of the table is filled with the presentation secondary color that was used throughout on several elements.
Design Cues:
The upper-left and lower-right feature rounded corners. Circles and rounded corners where a major design element throughout the presentation.
Up Next: How the rounded corners where created.
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The final element was to create a placeholder for the financial information. I added another custom fill autoshape, this time a rectangle. After sized it was ‘sent to back’ and the appropriate text was added.
If you would like to download this slide, click here.
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