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Resource for beautiful gradients
We use gradient a lot in our designs. Here’s a great collection of beautiful gradients to use in your presentation. httpss://uigradients.com/
Creating a highly effective PowerPoint template for your organisation
Most large companies and organisations provide a PowerPoint template to give their staff a head start when creating a presentation deck. Using a template means that users don’t have to start from scratch and provides a consistent, on-brand message to audiences. If you’re about to embark on creating a PowerPoint template for your company, here... Read more »
Drone detection video production
We’ve recently produced a video for Eclipse Digital to promote their innovative drone detection and mitigation system. Eclipse have developed the system to protect security sensitive areas from intrusion by drones. The system is able to detect an unauthorised drone and block it’s control signals, sending the drone back to it’s take off position. The... Read more »
Energy & Utilities Skills – Skills Strategy Document
We’ve recently created a Skills Strategy document for Energy and Utility Skills The document gives an insight into the skills landscape in the energy and utilities sector. We created the document as an interactive pdf to enable easy navigation. It features several infographics which give readers a visual overview of the skills requirements in the... Read more »28-09-15
Export from Illustrator to PowerPoint
UPDATE This post was written in 2015. It’s now possible to import SVG directly into PowerPoint (office 365, PowerPoint 2016) Export your artwork from Illustrator as SVG. See this article to find out how Go to the insert tab, click Pictures Find your SVG file and click Open OLD POST Just a really quick one... Read more »21-03-15
Delivering your presentation as a PDF
If you want to insure that your presentation looks the same across a wide range of devices PDF is a good choice. You can create a presentation in a variety of packages (Powerpont, InDesign, Illustrator for example) export as PDF and be confident that your audience will be able to view the presentation on their... Read more »10-03-15
Tags: diagrams, reading list
Reading list – The Diagrams Book by Kevin Duncan
This great little book is subtitled “50 ways to solve problems visually” and is a highly useful toolkit for people who like to approach problem solving using images and diagrams rather than words. It’s also an excellent resource to have at your disposal when looking about ways to present a concept to an audience in... Read more »
A day’s filming at the skills show
The week we spent an interesting day filming for EU – Skills at the Skills Show at the Birmingham NEC. The filming was carried out as part of a wider project to promote traineeships in the energy and utilities sector to potential employers. We spoke to three representatives of major employers within the sector (SSE,... Read more »17-05-12
Tags: analysis, consultation, presentation
Public consultations – 20 years on
Having done my first public consultation – on implementing a new road scheme into a housing estate in West Sussex – some 20 years ago, it’s interesting to reflect on what’s changed, especially in terms of the software available to enhance the process.09-05-12
