Sneak Peek: resonate Cover Design

The rumors are true… I’ve been hard at work on another book, and I’d like to give you a sneak peek of our first draft at a cover design.
After several internal brainstorms and sketching sessions, we ended up with these concepts.

We all felt that there was something special about the word resonate being made out [...]

Topic: Design, Diary, Question
Tags: cover, Design, draft, resonate

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Links to TED Global Talks That are Creating Waves

TED sent a note today about the TEDGlobal talks that are “creating waves” so it was fun to see all three of the talks we helped with on the list. Here are some tidbits about them:
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon, is an amazing photographer. We put her beautiful images into Keynote. To keep a gallery-like effect to [...]

Topic: Design, Event, Video
Tags: daniel pink, Design, paul romer, taryn simon, TED, templates

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The power of Audio in your presentation!

Audio shouldn’t be a slave to the visuals but instead should be thought of while all parts are in development, allow them to be collaborative as an element.

Topic: Design, Event, Tutorial, Video
Tags: audience, Design, PowerPoint, presentation, slide:ology, storytelling, training

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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:

Most popular went to Denise Caron:

Best use of multimedia went to Alan Brody:

Congratulations [...]

Topic: Design, Event, Video
Tags: alex varanese, contest, Design, fuzemeeting, slideshare, storytelling, winner

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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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