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Managing Your Image Library

24 January, 2010 (19:04) | Featured, Slide Design | By: Mike

As we design more and more slide decks, we inevitably create or consume an ever greater number of images, whether they’re photographs, icons, or whatever.  The problem is, however, it becomes a problem keeping track of them all on your hard drive.  Whether you’re using Windows or the Mac, this is where you see how [...]

The Power Of the Metaphor

14 July, 2009 (22:18) | Slide Design | By: Mike

All too often, when people are trying to do the right thing by creating a strong visual to represent an idea, they fall back on the literal meaning of the word.  This often makes it very difficult to find the right image to convey the idea and will often result in a visual that seems [...]

Slide Make-Over: US Coast Guard

2 June, 2009 (22:31) | Featured, Slide Design | By: Mike

Last month, I attended the Government Web 2.0 Best Practices Workshop hosted by FEMA.  As you would expect from events such as this, there were presentations given that included PowerPoint slides.  Given my experience, the federal government is a fertile breeding ground for poorly designed and down-right ineffective slides.  This event did not disapoint.  As [...]