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

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

Toronto was on fire!

October 31, 2008 By Nancy Duarte

This was our first time to Toronto, and let me tell you–we love this city. The Design Thinking conference was fantastic. I spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of super smart, good-looking designers, all dressed in black. Folks at this event were exceptionally smart because they’ve all come to terms with the idea that design isn’t [...]

Topic: Book Reviews
Posted October 31st, 2008 at 4:18 pm by Nancy Duarte

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

The Cliché

September 15, 2008 By Doug Neff

In the preface to her wonderfully inspiring book If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland says (of the students in her writing class),
I freed them from clouds of automatic verbiage, from “uninterestingness”.
Lovely, isn’t it? I bet you’ve never seen those words strung together before. It’s fresh and new. An original and poetic way of making [...]

Topic: Book Reviews, Design, Message
Posted September 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am by Doug Neff
Tags: Clichés, Design, story, Visuals