Kinetic typography: more examples (24)
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As a follow-up to yesterday's post on kinetic typography, I would like to point you to several more examples. First, a clarification: my purpose in bringing up the topic of kinetic typography is not to suggest that you too should incorporate text elements in your live presentations in the same way that you see featured in the examples below and in the previous The Girl Effect example. Using apps like PowerPoint or Keynote alone would ...
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Geoff said:
I'm a typographic nerd at times.
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Ron said:
This is an area that companies really need to consider when creating content.
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huixing said:
It is believed that the first use of kinetic type on a screen was in the Hitchcock film North by Northwest; Saul Bass designed the opening credit sequence. Watch the opening below. The credits do not just convey information but also express emotion and set the mood for the film.
Kinetic typography used to present The Girl Effect (16)
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We all know that a picture paints a thousand words. So, if you were to create a short on-line presentation that dealt with an important issue such as poverty and were trying to not only inform the viewer but also to make a profound emotional connection, it would make sense to use images of the problem — photographs of the actual people in need of help. You need words to inform and express much of ...
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Chi Guy said:
Great moving type presentation
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Josh said:
Finally a socially relevant post from Garr, not un-modest, name-dropping business presentations.
Design means putting yourself in the user's shoes (11)
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Design is about many things. Above all, it's about clarity, and intentions and about putting yourself in the position of the end users (or the customers, students, audience, etc.). When designs are not well thought out, even though it may all look good from our point of view, users get frustrated, confused, or even angry. Anyone who has used a poorly designed user interface on a mobile phone, for example, or gotten lost while following ...
Beautiful example of the visualization of a story (13)
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This morning I caught this short story on CNN (video below) on a very cool organization called D-PAN (Deaf Performing Artists Network) which, according to their website, "...create[s] media designed specifically to serve deaf audiences through the use of American Sign Language (ASL)." Their latest video is a visual interpretation of the song "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera. I never paid much attention to the song until I heard it augmented visually today by D-PAN. I ...
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Goldie Katsu said:
How much do we take our senses for granted and how can we used multi-media to share an experience that would otherwise be unavailable to many with only one medium.
Whiteboard presentation: T. Boone Pickens on reducing America's dependency on foreign oil (35)
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Perhaps you've heard by now, but billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is on a mission to make sure the USA has an actual energy strategy under the new US president. He has a plan — The Pickens Plan — and he's been talking about it to anyone who will listen (watch this behind-the-scenes clip from The Daily Show), and he's put together a nice little four-minute presentation outlining the plan. Slides were added to ...
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DaveP said:
I really like this guys ideas. The fact that he will make money on this doesn't bother me at all. Everybody wins.
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Mike Lepore said:
I love hearing Pickens talk - it seems like he actually has a plan that could work - which is great
Play is good for you (and it's good for business) (29)
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We talk about play around here a lot. Remember that play was one of the six aptitudes needed to be successful in today's world featured in Dan Pink's A Whole New Mind. I often associate at least one aspect of play and playfulness with the old Buddhist idea of the beginner's mind (or child's mind). That is, in the child's mind there are infinite possibilities, but in our adult mind (one filled with habits and ...
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Courtney said:
I need to go play more often. Too much learning!
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Manas Tungare said:
I saw the talk just a few hours before Garr's comments surfaced, and I'd recommend it highly!
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David Rinnan said:
I great presentation by Tim Brown. Provide some interesting insight into how to put yourself or a group of people into a creative mode.
Seth Godin presentation: how to build a tribe (54)
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I mentioned this before, but Tribes is an absolute must-read for 2008. Many of you already know much of what Seth Godin talks about in the book, especially if you have been following Seth and his blog, buying his books, etc. over the years (this is not a how-to book). But there is something special and "sticky" about the way he puts it together in Tribes that reminds us of our mission and our market ...
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Rodrigo said:
Assistam! Assistam! Assistam!
Finally, the 2008 US presidential election is over. Yesterday, (2)
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Finally, the 2008 US presidential election is over. Yesterday, each candidate gave their final speech of the campaign after the results were in. John McCain gave a very gracious and heartfelt concession speech in Arizona shortly before President-elect Obama delivered his victory speech in Chicago. We watched both speeches live here in Japan on CNN as did millions more across the globe. I intended to make a few comments about Obama's speech in Chicago today, ...
Think graphic design doesn't matter? (25)
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As the eyes of the world turn to the US presidential election in just a few hours, it's a good time to remember just how important design is, even the design of something people take for granted (or at least they used to) like the design of a simple election ballot. It's almost exactly eight years ago that the results of the 2000 US election between Al Gore and George W. Bush began to hang ...
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dann said:
Graphics design saves the world!
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Mike B said:
Looking back on the Supreme Court halting the recount and calling the election 8 years ago, it's painful to think about how different things might have been.
Guy Kawasaki’s Reality Check (9)
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Here's a must-have book for you: Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by our buddy Guy Kawasaki. This wonderful book is a compilation of Guy's best writing in recent years (Guy's blog is one of the most read blogs on the net). Any business person — or others who want to change the world with their ideas — will find this book very useful, practical, and inspiring. I think ...
Getting off the grid (14)
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I don't know if it's my age or just the hectic world in which we live, but I find myself making more little mistakes and being less satisfied with my work overall unless I can take the time everyday to be alone and focus on one thing at a time. When I talk about the need for professionals to find alone time or "get off the grid" as much as they can, this is not ...
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Tyler Hayes said:
I say it time and time again, multi-tasking is the downfall of modern productivity.
Duarte's Pumpkin Carving Contest (1)
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Halloween's a weird holiday. It's never been my favorite, but I did like It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown as a kid, and I always did rather fancy orange and black (perhaps that's why I'm a Beavers fan). If it's Halloween, that means the folks at Duarte Design are once again showing off their Jack-O-Lanterns in their annual employee pumpkin carving contest. Checkout all these cool pumpkins. Workshops: See you in March '09 in Silicon ...
Visualization of how the world views US election (30)
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Unless you've been living in a cave, you are probably aware that there is an important election about to take place in the United States (though I suspect at least some cave dwellers are very much aware of this too). Although one candidate seems to have an advantage with one week to go, it's more or less a race that's too close to call. You know how Americans feel about the candidates, but what about ...
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Chris said:
That non-Americans cannot vote is something I've often pondered. Maybe it's finally time for a World President? They had one in The Fifth Element, and look how that turned out in snogging Milla Jovovich. We can certainly learn from the lessons of the history of futuristic movies.
Steve Jobs at the whiteboard (c. 1991) (32)
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Some 17 years before The Back of the Napkin was published, and before death-by-PowerPoint was a familiar refrain, Steve Jobs was not only a master of the slide presentation, he was a clear and thoughtful presenter at the whiteboard as well. I love this old presentation below featuring Steve Jobs at the whiteboard as he methodically, yet passionately, explains NeXT's positioning and future growth opportunities. Sure, his projections did not pan out and NeXT never ...
I love my Sony LCD projector (3)
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A few years ago I made a presentation at an ad agency in Tokyo. The agency used a small Sony projector that really impressed me. Although it was not the smallest or the lightest on the market, I loved its slim design and it was very bright and made the slides on the screen look fantastic. Last month I finally purchased a Sony projector in the same family as the one I used that day ...
PZ translations (redux) (1)
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The Dutch and French versions of PZ have been out for a while, but I just received my copies today. The Dutch version is slightly narrower and taller than the English version. The French version has a glossy finish on the cover. The Dutch and French teams did a fantastic job. (I snapped this pic below on my iPhone and put it up here on Posterous. In French: Présentation zen : Pour des présentations plus ...
Seth Godin's Tribes (23)
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Yesterday I downloaded the free audio version of Seth Godin's latest book Tribes. It's fantastic. As I have so many things to read, I didn't think I'd get to this book (which I also purchased) for a while, so I was really happy to see there is an audio version, which is read by Seth himself. I listened to the audio book on the trains and during the evening walk through the city. Even if ...
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ahg3 said:
Garr is great. Especially because he's sharing Seth ;)
Singularity Summit '08 in San Jose, CA October 25 (1)
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I've heard from many people over the past year about the Singularity Summit being held this month in California. Unfortunately, I can not get away from Japan during that week in October, but I think many of you may be interested in this summit. (The summit curator, Tyler Emerson, attended the PZ book signing party at Duarte Design in March and he has actually been quite the evangelist for the book and for the idea ...
You've got to be believed... (1)
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This week I received Bert Decker's revised edition of his best-selling You've got to be believed to be heard. I haven't finished the book yet but I have seen enough to recommend it (take a look inside the book here). In chapter one, Bert (who's one of the most gracious and charismatic guys you'll ever meet) talks about the idea of Old Communicators vs. New Communicators. "Old Communicators fail," says Bert. "New Communicators succeed." Here's ...
