Feedback from a seasoned graphics designer

A meeting of 2 generations yesterday, when I sat down with a retired graphics designer who spent his professional live designing logos and visual corporate identities (some of which are highly visible icons in the Israeli high street). He has not used a…

The secret to great presentation design is…

The bar has been put higher and higher over the past years:

• Everyone is now able to put text and charts in PowerPoint and project them on a screen
• (Almost) everyone has discovered where to get beautiful…

Setting default fonts for PowerPoint data charts

When you insert a data chart in PowerPoint, chances are that the font in which they pop up is the default Calibri. Why? Because you did not bother to change the fonts in “design” “fonts” “custom fonts”. Set the heading and body fonts to whatever…

Visualizing the curse of knowledge

I often have to explain the concept of “the curse of knowledge”: it is actually harder for an expert to explain something than a reasonably intelligent outsider (here is why presentation designers should be reasonably intelligent :-) ).



Dan and Chip Heath use a…

Manually adjusting fonts

Sometimes it is necessary to adjust the characters in a sentence manually. Look at this image (with a deep quote) and see how letters line up vertically. Standard horizontal and vertical spacing in PowerPoint will not get you this effect. Put in the characters as individual text boxes…