Via Creative Market, 10 fonts that designer hate…but end up using anyway.
Category Archives: Design
50 Brand Style Guides
I’m a sucker for good brand guidelines. Here are 50 great examples compiled by Canva.
Love Jamie Oliver’s!
Categories: Design.
Redesigning Sony’s Leaked Slides
When bad slides leak and become news, presentation designers can’t help themselves from redesigning them. And that’s a good thing.
My friends at SlideRabbit took on Sony’s recently leaked slides.
RIP Microsoft Clip Art
Microsoft has finally killed off Clip Art!
And take a listen to this NPR Interview with Cathy Belleville, one of the lead Clip Art designers.
Also, Mashable’s “15 Classic Pieces of Microsoft Clip Art We’ll Miss the Most.“
Categories: Design, PowerPoint.
Sourcing and Using Vector Icons
My friend and fellow PPT MVP Dave Paradi has a nice post up on how to source and use vector icons in PowerPoint when you don’t have access to Adobe software.
And a few more resources for free icons are Google’s Material Design icon collection, flaticon.com and thenounproject.
The Olive Garden Deck Reimagined
Mary Meeker Presentation Makeover
A lot of people (including clients of mine) took note of presentation designer Emiland De Cubber’s slide makeover of Mary Meeker’s deck profiled in Business Week.
It’s good. Take a look.
And a hat tip to IdeaTransplant’s great post on the makeover.
5 Questions with the Max Borges Agency
What do I think the most common design mistakes are in presentation and where do I draw my design inspiration from?
Read my Q&A with the Max Borges Agency.
Categories: Design, Interviews.
Massimo Vignelli, 1931-2014
Categories: Design.
Brilliantly Simple Book Cover design
I’m simply in love with the simple brilliance of this book cover design by Tom Lenartowicz
H/T to Kottke.
