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

Pumpkin Placeholders & Costume Craziness!

October 31, 2008 By Chris Iufer

The results are in for this year’s annual pumpkin contest at Duarte. We’d like to thank all of you who participated by voting, giving this year the biggest turnout we’ve ever seen. We’re so glad you share our excitement, and love of creative carving.

In addition to the pumpkin contest, we also host an Annual Costume [...]

Topic: Diary
Posted October 31st, 2008 at 3:04 pm by Chris Iufer
Tags: Costumes, Halloween, Pumpkins, Winners

TED book club arrived with 2 cool books!

By Nancy Duarte

One of my favorite things to come in the mail is TED book club (WAY better than Oprah’s). Books are sent to TEDsters each quarter or so. But today I had one of the biggest thrills of my life because this time it had MY book in it. You can tell how happy I am [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Diary
Posted October 31st, 2008 at 8:00 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: slide:ology, TED

Orange is the new red, white, and blue

October 28, 2008 By Paula Tesch

Every year, Duarte holds a pumpkin decorating contest. This year is lucky number thirteen. It’s so cool, we’re beginning to think 13 really is lucky after all.
Get some practice for your trip to the polls. Check out the pumpkins at www.duarte.com/halloween and vote for something that doesn’t require homework, or a tiny pencil.

Which one will [...]

Topic: Design, Diary
Posted October 28th, 2008 at 5:04 pm by Paula Tesch
Tags: contest, Pumpkins, vote