Information Design Handbook

November 19, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

There’s a lovely new book that just came out called The Information Design Handbook by Jenn and Ken Visocky O’Grady. it is similar to mine but they focus on the principles of information design (their book is square too which is cool!)
Most of the content in the book can apply to slide design. Here [...]

Topic: Book Reviews
Posted November 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: Design, highway, information, LATCH, type

Presentations at Carnegie Mellon & NYU!

November 17, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

Presenting at the Apple store was surreal.
There was a nice enthusiastic crowd which included folks from O’Reilly, some family, some TEDsters, Tony Zander (who took the photos for me) and Bert Decker and his wife Dru. Bert did a great blog post on the power of Twitter for this event. He used Flip Video to [...]

Topic: Diary, Event, Video
Posted November 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: Apple, carnegie mellon, NYU

Speaking at SF Apple Store

November 14, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

I’ll be speaking at the Apple store in downtown San Francisco tomorrow at 6:30. The Apple stores as a whole placed a wonderful-sized order for the book. They should be on the shelves of the stand-alone Apple stores no later than next week. Of all the news I’ve received about the book, this one gives [...]

Topic: Diary, Event
Posted November 14th, 2008 at 4:42 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: apple store, san francisco, sf, speaking

My two favorite books are in Amazon’s Top 10 for 2008!

November 7, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

For the first time ever, two visual communication books have made Amazon’s Best Business Books of 2008 top ten list and they happen to be two of my all-time favorite books.
First there’s everyone’s favorite:
PresentationZen by Garr Reynolds

This book is in the #3 spot of all Business books. The book was beautifully written and designed by [...]

Topic: Book Reviews
Posted November 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: 2008, amazon, Book Reviews, books, top 10

Election Day!

November 5, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

After costing us more than the GDP of a small developing nation, election day has finally come and gone. A political cartoon seems in order. After all, cartoons have been used for persuasion and visual story telling for centuries. In my humble opinion, the best cartoons need the fewest words. The best ones are also [...]

Topic: Design, Message
Posted November 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm by Nancy Duarte
Tags: audience, communication, metaphors, visual