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We all want our presentations to have enough pizzazz to keep our audience engaged, but with the myriad typefaces, themes and effects available in PowerPoint, the tendency is to overdo it, resulting in long, disorganized and visually disorienting presentations that drive an audience to distraction.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. By learning a few simple design principles you can avoid Death by PowerPoint and create presentations that communicate your message with style, grace and impact.

In Roach’s seminar you’ll learn how to create powerful presentations in these 7 easy steps:

 

1.      Strategy: Effectively plan your presentation and tailor it to your audience

2.      Aesthetics and composition: Use of the grid and manipulation of positive and negative space to create lively slides

3.      The power of three: Entertain, inform and persuade

4.      Type: Which typefaces to use and which ones to avoid like the plague

5.      Typography: Applying type for better, faster comprehension

6.      Color: Communicating with the right palate

7.      Images: Visual factors that make a powerful impact

Darby Roach has been a teacher of graphic design at the country’s leading colleges, won numerous design awards and headed up some of the most creative marketing shops in Seattle. He is currently the principal and creative force behind Orbit Direct Creative Marketing. Now he brings his more than 25 years experience creating top-notch communication for companies such as Apple Computer and Nike to the ZINO Society in his seminar, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint.