SlideShare Storytelling Winners Announced Today!

Today the winners were announced for SlideShare’s “Tell a Story” contest. The contest was sponsored by Fuze Meeting and the top winner won $5,000!
Drunkenomics won the $5,000 grand prize:

Our very own Alex Varanese won for best design:

Best story telling goes to Lubomir Panayotov:

Judging Books by Their Covers

Ready for a quick design lesson?
Click on the picture to go to Joseph Sullivan’s list of Favorite Book Covers for 2008. (That one’s my favorite, by the way.)
Now, imagine you wrote a book this year. And your book just entered the market, along with the 172,000 other books published in the U.S. that year.1
And it’s [...]

Topic: Design
Tags: communication, Design, messaging, Visuals

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American Idol Meets Slide Design

For the fifth consecutive year, the PowerPoint Live User Conference is holding its Design-a-Template contest. The winner gets a free trip to the Fall conference. This conference is really fun and has a strong sense of community. Rick Altman has done a good job migrating the agenda to keep up with technological and learning trends.
The [...]

Topic: Design, Event
Tags: conference, contest, Design, PPTLive, template

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When to Hire a Professional Designer

My dad is a handyman. Not professionally, but a handyman just the same. He can fix anything: cars, lawnmowers, leaky faucets, washing machines, kitchen cabinets, roofs, fences, and just about anything with wires sticking out of it. He fixes things and he builds things. He tinkers with things, takes them apart, learns how they work, [...]

Topic: Business, Design
Tags: creative, Design, duarte, presentation

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Designing Presentations is a Dirty Job

Well-developed and designed presentations are finally getting the recognition they deserve. The influence and visibility of Garr Reynolds’ blog have helped change the perception that presentations suck, and made people aware of just how powerful a presentation can be.
Attracting really good designers to work for Duarte has been tough, because designing presentations is “dirty work”. [...]

Topic: Business, Design, Video
Tags: Design, dirty jobs, dirty work, mike rowe, presentation

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