Cliché of the Week: Clip Art
True story: I was working with a client, reviewing his existing slides with him, and making notes as to what needed work. We came across a data slide containing a large piece of clip art, similar to the fellow you see here.
It was the only graphic in the entire presentation.
I impulsively reached for the delete key, [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Posted November 11th, 2008 at 6:45 pm by Doug Neff
Tags: Clichés, Design, story, Visuals
Election Day!
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
Political Signs are like Slides
A gal named Laura Macias is running for City Council in Mountain View. I’m not sure who she hired to design her political signs but they look like really bad PowerPoint. When you drive by the corner of Grant and Cuesta, there’s a cluster of signs and you can read all of them but hers.
She [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Posted November 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am by Nancy Duarte
Tags: critique, Design, presentation
Cliché of the Week: The Bullseye
We need to stay focused.
Our numbers are right on target.
We made our goal!
When someone says those words, does your brain instantaneously call up images like the one to the right?
It does? Good. Then your brain is functioning appropriately.
Clichés are perfectly normal and perfectly natural. Your brain was designed to retrieve visuals quickly, and clichés are [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Posted October 22nd, 2008 at 4:18 pm by Doug Neff
Tags: Clichés, Design, story, Visuals
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Read all about it!
This just in: Nancy Duarte is getting wicked famous.
Check out the Business section of the San Jose Mercury News… to see a lovely interview with our fearless leader.
Topic: Business, Message
Posted October 21st, 2008 at 1:58 pm by Paula Tesch
Tags: interview, Mercury News, Nancy Duarte, San Jose
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