Formating an Excel table in PowerPoint (under time pressure)

At 11PM on the evening before the Board meeting, the finance department emails you a horribly looking PowerPoint deck full of copied tables from Excel with the latest quarterly results. There is no time to start designing…

SpiderPic — price comparison shopping is coming to stock images

By now everyone knows that using professional images in your presentation is far better than ripping images from Google image search or clipart: higher quality photographs, isolated subjects on a white background…

Maintain one vanishing point when rotating 3D PowerPoint objects

3D effects can add impact to a PowerPoint slide if used at the appropriate occasion.

• 3D for the sake of 3D adds complexity: the slide becomes harder to understand, the only thing you showed is…

“Be stupid” — DIESEL ad with motion graphics

A bit noisy, but nicely done.

The trouble with 99% perfect photo compositions

See the ad below. Something is not right. It is hard to see what it exactly is, but the image is not natural. The light? The shadows? The 3D proportions?