About a month ago I came across an interview with Brad Bird, about what a company can do to infuse innovation and creativity into their work. Bird was hired by Steve Jobs to basically shake things up at Pixar, when Pixar was at its peak, simply because Jobs didn’t want to lose the growing [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Fostering Innovation
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
More great diagrams
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been really into looking at complex diagrams with great deals of detail. While in a courtroom setting, we’ve got less time to get a point across, particularly in an electronic demonstrative, some of these more detailed explanations are definitely giving me some inspiration.
John Grimwade’s portfolio is really cool, and I had the pleasure [...]
Docu-point
Posted in Presentation, Visual Explanation on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Presentation Zen posted a blog earlier this week on Hillary Clinton’s campaign sending an elect ability PowerPoint to House Democrats.
I’m including links to this blog as well as a link to Rick Altman’s blog who developed a before and after version. There’s a good message here about appropriate use and design.
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/05/hillary-campaig.html
For a before and [...]
Muxtape
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://muxtape.com/
Beautiful in its dedication to ugliness. I love the clear tape case too I miss those. The playlists sort of look like the inserts into tape cases.
All Streets In the US
Posted in Uncategorized on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this map, pretty cool when data does what data does. It maps every street in the United States. Don’t miss the city details below too, those are pretty cool.
Edible Inspiration
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In thinking about what to blog about as a first time blogger, I hit a wall. Then, I put my virtual car in reverse and hit another wall.
It’s a little overwhelming writing a note to open space (yes, I’m being a bit dramatic but it’s my blog). I’m more of an interactive person. I need [...]
Baseball Salary v. Performance
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve become a fan of Ben Fry, he’s written a book on data visualization for O’Reilly.
Here’s another chart from him, it compares the payroll of a baseball team to it’s performance over the season. The slider at the top let’s you move it so you can see what happens over time.
Image Scaling
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stretchy pixelated images are always a problem. Here’s a post on CSS liquid about an elegant browser solution for a portfolio site.
Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides
Posted in Presentation on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a great explanation and example of Pecha Kucha b Dan Pink.
These Slides Are Made For Using
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently started working with a young attorney who was putting together his first opening. He spent many hours working on his script and annotating spots where he wanted slides. He told me he was open to other ideas for slides, but wanted to make sure I covered the points he identified. My first draft [...]
