World’s Best Presentation

I got this from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. These are the win­ners of the World’s Best Pre­sen­ta­tion Con­test. The one on top is the Sec­ond Prize Win­ner called FOOTNOTES. The one below is enti­tled THIRST and won 1^st Prize.

I hope I can start mak­ing my keynotes as beau­ti­ful as this. Pre­sen­ta­tion Zen has a great post on Mak­ing Slide Designs which would be really great to study in deeper detail.

Here are some of the points in that article:

(1) Make it visual.
Slides are visual aids, not “text aids,” right? Again, it must be noticed (we notice com­pelling visu­als), under­stood, and remem­bered (we remem­ber images). We are visual beings. You do not have to use slides, but *if* you do, make them highly visual. And remem­ber: Vision trumps all other senses.

(2) One slide, one point.
IKEA does not try to cram many prod­ucts into a sign or give a lot of infor­ma­tion about that prod­uct in a sign, though there is plenty of space to do that if they wanted to. Instead they fea­ture a sin­gle item at a large size — it gets noticed, read, and remem­bered. For pre­sen­ta­tions, “one slide, one point” is a good gen­eral prin­ci­ple to fol­low. Don’t be afraid to tell your visual story over many frames.

(4) Con­trast rules!
Con­trast is per­haps the most impor­tant prin­ci­ple of all. You can achieve con­trast in many ways, size (big/small) space (near/far), and color (light/dark, warm/cool), etc. IKEA achieves great con­trast with color by using a vivid warm color which comes at you (yel­low) and a cool color for back­ground (dark blue) on the side of their gigan­tic build­ing. White and black (the great­est color con­trast) is also often used in the IKEA bill­boards. Although I do not rec­om­mend the IKEA brand color scheme (unless you work for IKEA or one of the Swedish Olympic teams), IKEA graph­ics make good use of con­trast.

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