I dug Sunday’s So You Want to Start a United Arts Fund session for the content and also for the form. Paul Tyler, Grants Director, ArtsKC Fund introduced us to the Pecha Kucha approach to PowerPoint presentations – 20 slides, 20 seconds each. Read about the theory and performance arts roots in the August 2007 Wired article “Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down“.
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Thanks for spreading the word about this, Amy. Edward Tufte (www.edwardtufte.com), famous for his contributions to information design, has also harped again improper PowerPoint usage, and pecha-kucha takes his work one step further by providing simple rules that effectively challenge the user to create better presentations.
There is also an ongoing PowerPoint competition. The submissions are longer than pecha-kucha files because they are meant to be viewed, rather than part of a spoken presentation. However, they are similar image-based and text light. View this recent winners here: http://blog.slideshare.net/2007/05/07/contest-results-2/
Eulynn
Excellent link. I notice that the winning presentations use text as graphics. Packs a punch, keeps you interested.
Andrew Zolli’s PowerPoint really worked for me – less is more and strong visuals.
http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/