Great book “Tasteful Color Combinations” — not even available on Amazon

Found hidden away on a shelf in the book shop of the Tel Aviv Museum: “Tasteful Color Combinations” by Naomi Kuno. It is not even available on Amazon, that’s why I have trouble finding a good web link to it.

Squeezing more text inside a PowerPoint shape

Circles are beautiful shapes to work with. Unfortunately, PowerPoint’s standard settings make it hard to fit in text. To get a bit more space, got to “format shape”->”text box”:

• Set the internal margin to zero
• Switch off automatic word wrap

Visual communication in schools — when is it too early?

During a meeting today: “You make presentations? Can you believe that my children are actually producing PowerPoint in school at the moment?”

Infographic example — poor info / great graphic

Infographics can look great, but can do a poor job in getting data across. This data could have been brought out better with simple bar charts. I am still struggling to get the point (15+ years of chart-decoding-experience as a strategy consultant…

Getting rid of image tags in PDF files

PDF is the preferred format for emailing out presentations:

• Small file size
• Clean presentation without the risk of an accidental edit

How to build a presenter’s confidence to depart from “overhead slide” presentations

Every day, I am working hard to convince my clients to switch to a presentation format that no longer resembles the hand-written overhead slides we used in the early 90s: lots, and lots…