Google’s “Template”
A lot of our design is developing PowerPoint templates. Often, we are working within a corporate style guide that directs the colors, font and overall styling, and the biggest effort is effectively setting up PowerPoint to adhere to those guidelines in presentation design. On other projects, we are creating the look and a style guide through the template options selected.
I found this online overview of Google’s brand style guide, which is very interesting, has some great before and after design items and goes to show that every company should have visual branding rules (aka a style guide).
Full article and style guide samples is here.
– Troy @ TLC
Online Art with Silk
Silk is an online interactive art generator, where you create the art. The art is based on mirrored, or reflective, creation and it is much easier to experience than explain – so go experience it here.
I have saved out some images from Silk to use in PowerPoint template background development and also used the abstract art as images on slides. It is definitely a unique site that quickly produces unique art images.
– Troy @ TLC
Hanging Out in Santa Barbara at a Classic Theater
Had the privilege of working with a great company (both production and end client!) developing their visually dynamic presentations for a meeting and being in Santa Barbara at the classic Lobrero theater to run the showsite graphics.
– Troy @ TLC
Backstage (again)
Quick image of another recent project where I handled the onsite presentation edits and execution.
– Troy @ TLC
My Office at the Globe Theater
Recently completed an awards show that was held at the Globe Theater near Hollywood, CA. Presentation with almost 200 award winners.
– Troy @ TLC
Stack of Nexus 10 Tablets
Friday we were loading a completed interactive brochure project onto Nexus 10 tablets to be shipped to the client’s tradeshow event (can you guess which tablet is our staff test one…).
So how was PowerPoint involved in a 300+ page interactive brochure? The full project was storyboarded as a slide deck so the client could review and do copy edits before moving to the HTML5 coding.
– Troy TLC
Google and its New Image Searches
Click here to read the full commentary article on Google’s new/refined image search process.
“I did a Google search for the image” has become a standard phrase I hear a lot. It is said without thought of image quality (which often is why I am asking where the image was sourced from, in hopes of getting a higher resolution image to work with), ownership or copyright issues. Recently, Google has revised its image search display process to simplify the process. For presenters, this may be helpful, but I can definitely understand the loss of website recognition and ease of “borrowing” images.
Example of the “old” Google search results (shows source website in background):
Here is what is seen from a Google image search today (shows only image, mage specs, and related images):
– Troy @ TLC