Book Review: Presentation Zen Design
By Kostanija Petrovic, Product Designer, Open Text Corporation – To be published in 2010?
This review will take a personal look at Garr Reynolds' book Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations.
Book
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Garr Reynolds (2009). General |
Author
Garr
Reynolds is currently Associate Professor of Management at Kansai Gaidai University
where he teaches Marketing, Global Marketing and Multimedia Presentation Design.
Garr is active in the Japanese community and can often be found presenting
on subjects concerning design, branding, and effective corporate communications.
Garr is the former Manager of Worldwide User Group Relations at Apple Computer,
Inc. in Silicon Valley. With Apple, Garr worked with user groups (brand communities)
in the U.S. and Japan and traveled extensively delivering presentations, software
demos, and keynote addresses to the firm's most loyal customers. Before joining
Apple, Garr worked for most of the '90s at the head office of Sumitomo Electric
Industries in Osaka. Garr lives in Osaka, Japan.
(From www.garrreynolds.com,
adapted)
Homepage: www.garrreynolds.com
Review
In preparation – To be published in 2010?
From the book presentation:
In his book Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, Garr
Reynolds gave readers the framework for planning, putting together, and delivering
successful presentations. Now, he takes us further into the design realm and
shows how we can apply time-honored design principles to presentation layouts.
Throughout Presentation Zen Design, Garr shares his lessons on designing
effective presentations that contain text, graphs, color, images, and video.
After establishing guidelines for each of the various elements, he explains
how to achieve an overall harmony and balance using the tenets of Zen simplicity.
Not only will you discover how to design your slides for more professional-looking
presentations, you'll learn to communicate more clearly and will accomplish
the goal of making a stronger, more lasting connection with your audience.
(From product description, adapted)
