design

Before & After: Bullet List to Process Diagram

Here is a quick Before-and-After slide. The original slide deck was primarily all bullet list text. TLC reviewed all content and proposed layouts that minimized the bullet list format and provided more visual layouts of the same content. For this slide, in going over the content with the client, we learned the bulleted text was really the talking points for a discovery process, which we happily converted into a process diagram layout. Same message, same content, but visual layout!

Before-After_1

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:33:20-07:00September 15th, 2014|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

Sample Slides

Just a few slides from a recent project. Sorry, I cannot show the dynamic animations on each of these or the full presentation. But it is great to showcase slides where we get to really develop everything. On these, TLC dropped out the background on all vehicle images and created layers of content that can be separately animated in for the final slide layouts.

Toyota_1

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:34:25-07:00September 11th, 2014|Portfolio|

Duarte Releases SlideDocs ‘Book’

If you have used PowerPoint to create a print document that was never intended to be projected as a slide show, fear not, you are not alone. TLC Creative Services has been creating lots of projects over the past few years that we internally refer to as “PowerPoint Documents.” Nancy Duarte has release a new “book” all about using PowerPoint for non-slide show documents called “SlideDocs.”

The downloaded book is a giant example of how PowerPoint is used for document design, because it is a PowerPoint file.

The core message of SlideDocs, which I agree with, is there are a range of documents. On the left are formal print design documents. On the right are slide show presentations. In the middle are print documents that are designed in PowerPoint.

I recommend everyone, especially clients, read SlideDocs if nothing else for the overview of graphic design and layout principles in the middle section. Get more info and download the free SlideDocs book and templates here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:47:41-07:00March 20th, 2014|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

2014 Color of the Year

Funny thing happened this weekend while at the local Home Improvement store – I learned the official 2014 Color of the Year! Not what you would expect to learn while looking for light fixtures, lumber and nails. But there it was, right up front near the check out registers, 4′ high in the paint department.

Each year, the Pantone Color Institute chooses a color of the year, and that selection has a big impact on design, art and fashion. 2014 is the year of “Radiant Orchid” – guess I better start working that into some template designs!

Radiant Orchid is “an invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today’s society.” It is “an enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones… (that) inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health.” Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone Color Institute director.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:56:40-07:00December 30th, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Business Owner One-Sheet (Portfolio)

This print project came to us as a folder of scanned images, Word documents and PDFs. TLC Creative Services took all of the information and content and crafted it into a print-ready document that displayed the information in a stylized layout.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:59:25-07:00December 23rd, 2013|Portfolio|

Visual Name List (Portfolio)

This is one slide from a series of presentations formatted on a template TLC Creative developed for a client program. The original slide listed a long bullet list of the key people from around the corporate global operations that were being highlighted for their corporate initiative ideas. TLC converted the bullet list into a visual layout using template colors and support graphics.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:00:57-07:00December 16th, 2013|Portfolio|

Template Vector Library (Portfolio)

On this template design project (which was a great template with all division variations setup on separate master slides in a single template file, which we will highlight later), we developed a series of vector icons for use by the corporation in all of their presentations.

Vector art is editable in PowerPoint, allowing anyone to resize without quality loss, recolor, add shadows, bevels and other PowerPoint styling.

The icons were included in the master template as part of the asset library, which makes it easy for everyone in the company to have a single place to go for the images and easy copy/paste use in any presentation.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:01:19-07:00December 13th, 2013|Portfolio|

Mexico Demographics (Portfolio)

For this presentation, a lot of demographic data was presented. We took the extensive document of bullet points and converted all to visual layouts, putting the content in easily identifiable groupings and adding an icon scheme throughout to tie the data together.

For the map data, everything is editable in PowerPoint. The vector format map was setup so we could fill the color for each country as needed. The callout numbers, lines and text are all PowerPoint elements, which allowed us to minimize design time by using the same elements with new color schemes applied.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:01:45-07:00December 11th, 2013|Portfolio|

Clark Consulting (Portfolio)

Clark Consulting asked TLC Creative Services to help with a presentation makeover on their slides for an important meeting presentation. After reviewing the files, we expanded the project to include an update to the PowerPoint template to set it up correctly, all formatting options preset, optimized and ready for real use. Here are a few before-and-after slides from the project.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:03:29-07:00December 6th, 2013|Portfolio|

Oops – says the “designer”

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a TLC project, just something left on the door of my residence.

Oops, guess the designer did not think the restaurant name would be missed when the door hanger die the printer spec’d was used.

This is printed really well: good stock, ink coverage, aqueous coating, trim and die. But the design obviously did not account for the die that put a hole where the company name was. Looking closer, other design questions come up: what is the capitalization standard? What is the punctuation standard? Were 7 font styles too many?

I hear it very often, about how someone’s nephew is great with the computer and designed the company brochure – the guy in the end cubicle on the 4th floor has Photoshop on his computer and can create the event banner – the IT department is setting up the webpage (the registration backend page) and has been asked to also create the PowerPoint template.

These people are great and often creative. The downside is when the general person does not know, or understand, the technical needs of the design, the company branding, or just good design principles the results are not ideal. A company’s image suffers, users with improperly setup files suffer, or money is just wasted….

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:06:47-07:00November 22nd, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|
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