Provided slide had lots of good points: It was not a bulleted list, items are color coded, and alignment is not to off:
The “after” slide developed used the same layout concept, but used colors for extra contrast, layering of content along with bolder and more legible text:
– Troy @ TLC
Most every presentation software for the past 15 years has made information as bullet points the default way of visually presenting it. While efficient, and duplicate-able, it is definitely not the most attractive or memorable way to present information. Here is an example of “Bullets vs. Visual Layouts” from a recent project.
Here is the original slide – simple, consistent, boring bullet list:
Here is the slide after the presentation makeover project. It has the same information, but has some visual impact with color, shapes, layering, and speaker support animation (obviously not seen in this flat image of the slide):
– Troy @ TLC
Quotes can be powerful in a presentation. But the visual should also be powerful. Here is the original slide:
On the good side, it is not to small of text, high contrast colors, and legible.
Here is the slide after the presentation makeover:
The quote is now on the (new) corporate template, so it ties in with the full presntation look. It is clearly a quotation with the oversize stylist quote marks. And in addition to credit (name of person being quoted) is a great image of the author.
– Troy @ TLC
I am fortunate to work on a lot of really great projects. One constant is the content is not something I can share with others, and often it only has that great appeal when viewed in context of the staging, screens and other slides. The Lexus LF-LC is now public knowledge, so I thought I would share a few slides from the show where it was first shown.
I started with a background for the presentation that had lots of motion and energy. The content was lots of visuals and minimal text (no bullets). So working within the brand style guide here is the slide background I created for the LF-LC.
Next step was to optimize the great photography in Photoshop for each slide. The screens for this show were very large and projected in HD, so the slides and images really made fantastic visuals. Now imagine these slides 40′ wide!
– Troy @ TLC
Here is a typical slide from a presentation:
And here is the slide makeover:
The stylized text and layout make for a dynamic visual of the simple text. Further, the custom gradient and text treatment was then used throughout the presentation as a core design element.
– Troy @ TLC
Design requests are always diverse and some things can still be developed more dynamically in video editing vs. PPT. TLC Creative Services did slide makeovers for all the presentations at this meeting, but I spent some time in the video edit suite to develop this quick animation to kick off one of the meeting segments.
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– Troy @ TLC
One of the greatest things I hear is something like this “Just make the slides have the key concepts I am talking about.” To me, that means the presenter:
– Knows their talk
– Is a confident presenter
– Will not be reading the slide to the audience
– And has given me freedom to design visual slides (yeah!)
This is a sample slide from a recent presentation TLC Creative Services developed (Note: Corporate template and much of the content adjusted for the sample slide). This minimal content slide reinforced the presenters point, did not distract the audience from the presenter and provided much more memorable speaker support than a list of bulleted text with all the details (that the presenter provided during the talk).
– Troy @ TLC
This is a template developed for a recent project. It is a very visual template with rich, dark color scheme and great contrast of the vertical lines background to the horizontal lines of content. The same vertical line background is used on all master layouts. The primary design element used is adding masks of varying opacity and color over sections of the vertical line background to allow the content to stand out and be legible.
– Troy @ TLC
Another presentation template in the series of talks on Medication in today’s environment was this visually fun template. The template goals were lots of content area, clean lines and visually conveying the concept of growth of the overwhelming number of medication options. The final template featured all of the formatting master layouts and formatting options preset with trees to represent continuous growth and raining medication on the title slide.
– Troy @ TLC
This PowerPoint template outline was for a presentation with a core message of the complexity of medication. The template featured a simple color scheme and central focus on the head filled with medication image. The same image was used on all other meeting materials to visually depict the message.
– Troy @ TLC