When I saw Lawrence Lessing’s Presentation at TED, I was quite amazed at how he did it. If you haven’t seen it, you can view it at the end of this blog post. He uses a LOT of slides but most of them are pictures or only contain a few words. The slide would change every 3 to 15 seconds (some of them include animations or video clips). [click to continue…]

Go here for Part 1 on creating stunning presentation charts

Shadow
A technique I like to use a lot is to use shadows. But not too much - using drop shadow is like using make-up: Just putting on a little bit can make it look better, use too much and it will probably look horrible. The difference is not hugely visible, but to me even the subtle difference is nice. [click to continue…]

When looking at a presentation, I’m constantly looking for new ideas but I’m also trying to look for mistakes that the presenter is making (shame on me!), so I myself can avoid them in the future. When I’m presenting myself I might not notice my mistakes, but looking at a presenter from an audience view, I can avoid making some mistakes in my presentations. [click to continue…]

Having lived in Indonesia for 20 years, I really enjoyed Willie Smits ‘ talk on how he sustainably regrew an area of rainforest on the island of Sulawesi (where my mother is from, coincidentally), taking into consideration cultural, economic, social and environmental issues in the area. His talk was very strong and you can see it that he was determined and passionate about what he did. At the end he deservedly received a standing ovation! [click to continue…]

Ze Frank is a really funny person, you might of first heard of him when he sent around his online birthday party invitation which was forwarded around the world. Based on that he has started creating more online (and offline) projects and he’s also a public speaker now. He spoke at TED several times and I want to present to you his presentation from TED 2004. [click to continue…]

Jacek Utko had a very interesting 6-minute TED talk on newspaper design and how it helped a newspaper achieve a 100% growth. When I saw this, I directly saw the link to presentations and how his approach can be used for presentation design (by design I don’t mean how to put pictures into the slides or which type of font to use - but I mean design in a bigger sense as in how to approach the presentation as a whole). I really liked how he thought about design. [click to continue…]

Charts are often an important part of a presentation. You can visualize complex data with charts. But I’ve seen some horrible visual usage of them; the slides with charts are often cluttered, the data is displayed too small and sometimes irrelevant or superfluous data is included.

What’s the solution? [click to continue…]

I just found this funny Dilbert comic on presentations and pie charts, I just HAD to share it with you! [click to continue…]

One of the first books on presentations I came across was Seth Godin’s Really Bad PowerPoint (and how to avoid it). Even though it is not the most comprehensive (it’s 10 pages long, and 3 of them are of editorial nature), it did show me that there is another “presentation world” out there. It showed me the direction of what good presentations (and powerpoint) are all about. So I started looking on the web, and I found Garr Reynolds’ web page and from then on I was an regular reader of presentation design/delivery webpages. [click to continue…]

Read Part 1 of the article here.

So, after the 40-minute break (I guess they’re a bit lenient on time :- ) ) we continued. 6 more presentations followed. Many of the presentations had to do with animals tonight. A few of them were also business-/management-oriented. A guy from a big fashion company told us about how suits were produced, while a couple of other people talked about their art/design projects. [click to continue…]

If you don’t know what it is, you can read about Pecha Kucha Nights here.

So excited!!

So tonight I went to my first Pecha Kucha Night, this one was held in Cologne, Germany. I arrived there half an hour before they would let people in and I thought I’d be on the safe side and I’d be the first person to arrive. To my surprise there were already about 15 people there! 15 minutes later the line behind me was already 20 meters long (about 66 feet for the non-metric people reading this). [click to continue…]

This is a presentation I created soon after I saw the original YouTube video, which really impressed me. I won’t tell you too much about it now (because there’s a twist - so  make sure to watch it until the end!). [click to continue…]

Are you running out of ideas for your next presentation? Then maybe doing some physical exercise just might do the trick! I’ve had ideas for presentations come to me during a 5 mile run or so. I like running a lot and will do the occasional half-marathon, but during the relaxed training runs in the park (with or without my iPod Shuffle) my brain starts to unleash a lot of ideas. [click to continue…]

This is my 4th upload to slideshare and this time it deals with the subject of numbers. To be more exact, it compares “big numbers” from social media with numbers from global issues (hmm… hard to explain, why not take a quick look at the presentation?).

I also wanted to show with this presentation, that with [click to continue…]