It’s long overdue, but as we’re in a new year and hopefully very new age, we have completely redesigned and relaunched NolanHaimsCreative.com, the business arm of this whole presentation thing we do.
Take a look and learn how we work with brands big and small to communicate more visually and with fewer words.
The The Let’s Hear It! Podcast is covers the world of foundation and nonprofit communications, and I have known Eric Brown, one of the hosts for more years than I can count. So I was excited to be asked on as a guest to talk about effective presentation design with a particular bent towards the nonprofit world which I have been working in for as many years as I have known Eric.
It’s a great and funny conversation that has covering a lot including why you want to “make your content like a Twinkie.”
Take a listen!
Episode #80, Should You Use Canva for Presentations? is up.
Troy, Sandy and I get our hands dirty playing with Canva and creating a sample presentation. Is the online software ready for primetime when it comes to presentation or is it still best left as a social media graphics creator? Tune in to find out our thoughts…
Take a listen!
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One of my favorite PowerPoint hacks is to hide page numbers in slideshow mode because really, who needs to see those on screen? This simple technique can also be used to hide unreadable source notes and any other content that should be visible in printouts and PDFs, but just isn’t needed or wanted on screen. Watch it here!
Episode #70, Presentations in the Courtroom with Kerri L. Ruttenberg is up and live!
Troy, Sandy and I welcome our first legal guest, Kerri L. Ruttenberg, to talk about trial graphics, how presentation is used in the courtroom and her fantastic book, Images with Impact: Design and Use of Winning Trial Visuals.
Kerri is a top DC litigation attorney and probably the top expert in using visuals in the courtroom in the country. I reviewed her book a while back when I first learned of it, but now we get to dive a bit deeper and hear more about the psychology of visuals, what can and can’t be used in a courtroom and what the state of the trial graphics industry is.
Even if you never plan on working in this area of presentation design, this is a really good conversation in which you’ll learn a ton not just about how to convince juries with visuals, but how to convince your own audiences.
Take a listen!
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Entirely impractical, but there’s something aesthetically beautiful about these simplified maps of various subway and train lines around the world.
h/t to Kotke
While I can’t say I’m happy about the data behind this chart from the NY Times (increasing murder rates across the country), I do love the simplicity of design.
Attach.io has posted 15 startup pitch decks from companies big and small, but all the resulted in raising significant capital.
There’s some good here (Airbnb) and some horrendous (YouTube), but design aside—and I usually never say that—what is to be learned from these is the simplicity of messaging and limited content.
As Guy Kawasaki has said, if you can’t explain your business in ten slides, you don’t understand your business and I don’t want to invest in it.
Check out all the decks here.
