An incredible talk from this year’s TED.
“With endearing honesty and vulnerability, Raghava KK tells the colorful tale of how art has taken his life to new places, and how life experiences in turn have driven his multiple reincarnations as an artist — from cartoonist to painter, media darling to social outcast, and son to father.”
I’ve been so busy preparing signage, flyers, stickers and what have you for an upcoming conference for work. In the midst of all the chaos, I’ve managed to work on a poster presentation for a colleague who is presenting at a national conference. Although it only took me a few hours, I am surprised at how much I like it.
It’s interesting that after working so intensely in the visual centers of the brain, I found it incredibly difficult when asked to actually look at the text to make edits. My corpus callosum was straining under the task.
In any case, here is the end result. This small version is the only one I’ll be posting to display the overall design because the numbers are still under review by committee.
Task Group Orientation Presentation (right-click to save to desktop)
This is a slideshow presentation I created on a complex and very dry topic. In an ideal world, I would follow Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule for slideshow presentations because it’s simple and effective. Essentially, his rule states that every presentation should have no more than 10 slides, lasts for 20 minutes, and use at least 30 pt fonts. If everyone followed this rule, audiences all over the nation would find themselves alert and informed. Shocking.
I tried my best to follow Kawasaki’s rule and many other rules for this particular project, but unfortunately, this was not my presentation. I was tailoring it for a team who would take turns on certain slides and of course, not everyone prepares as well as they should.
The less prepared your presenter, the more slides and the more text you’ll find in their slideshow.
So for your consideration, here is what I came up with in the end. This is the slideshow minus 11 text-heavy slides because I wanted to keep the file small and spare you minutes of your precious time. Click the movie or use the right arrow on your keyboard to advance.
For more on the perfect presentation, 43 Folders has a great article on the topic.
