Friday, August 3, 2007

Vectorise Your Next Presentation

If you look around you today in magazines, television, and web media alot of new design trends start to appear. One such design trend currently in use is Vector art and Graphics.

If you’re in marketing and sales and looking to do a slick presentation, the inclusion of a vector graphic can greatly enhance the visual look of your presentation slides.

Take a look our quick DIY Vector Art lession:

 

 

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Keep Business Charts Simple

 

If you’ve sat through any Sales or Finance presentations, a slew of charts and diagrams would have been thrown at your senses. Most of the time, the information contained therein lost to millions of numbers, bars and pies feeling your senses.

 

The problem is, charts and diagrams are meant to simplify information in a digestable and oftwn impactful manner - but sometimes we get side tracked and forget this. Sometimes, we get tempted to use the 3D options, never mind that it can’r all quite squeeze on the slide. 

 

So resist the temptation to add fancy extras like pictures and 3-D effects if they make the chart look busy. If a chart is too detailed or cluttered, customers won’t invest the effort required to figure it out.

Both Steve Jobs and Al Gore use charts to convey their message. In Al Gore’s compelling film An Inconvenient Truth, his use of charts were clean and simple and thus told a much more powerful story.

 

When using charts, follow these tips:-

  • Pick the appropriate chart for the data
  • Limit it to only one representation of information
  • Don’t clutter the chart with other pictures or data
  • Use soft colours for the axis, and strong colours for the data lines

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