Top Stories published by SlideMagic in May of 2009

Typography basics: readability, legibility, and impact

I am reading an article in Layers Magazine with a good summary about the basics of typography:

  • Readability: how easy is it to read a long block of text
  • Legibility: how easy is it to…

ColoRotate — new color design tool

Your colors scheme is the most important driver of your presentation’s look and feel. Much more important than logos or other graphical elements on the page. Adobe’s kuler is a popular example of an online tool that helps you pick colors (even from an image if you want…


We used to have something like this at McKinsey

Information Aesthetics is talking about visualization nostalgia. Hey, we used to have a ruler like this at McKinsey. I will continue to look for one, or a picture. They were blue, had boxes for bar/column charts and pie diagrams, and a few…


Chart make-over example, sorry Skype

I am preparing a speech and needed a case example for a chart make over. Sorry to be picking on Skype again… A great color scheme plus a chart I discussed before. I have nothing against Skype, this is just for educational purposes.


Weekend reading: Rene Margritte paintings and Photoshop images

I am browsing through an old (1979) book, Magritte: Ideas and Images

, about the life of the Belgian painter Rene Margrite this weekend. What if he could have used Photoshop? Repetition of…


“Excuse my English” — slides that cannot stand on their own

I put the slides I used for a presentation on SlideShare despite that they actually do not stand on their own very well.

One piece of feedback I got is that I should not apologize for speaking poor…

These were the top 10 stories published by SlideMagic in May of 2009. You can also dive into daily archives for May of 2009 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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