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"Please don't buy this book! Once people start making better presentations, mine won’t look so good. (But if you truly want to learn what works and how to do it right, Garr is the man to learn from.)"
Seth Godin
Speaker and Blogger
Author, Meatball Sundae
"Garr is a beacon of hope for frustrated audiences everywhere. His design philosophy and fundamental principles bring life to messages and can invigorate careers. His principles of simplicity are as much a journey of the soul as they are restraint of the mouse."
Nancy Duarte
CEO, Duarte Design
"Presentation Zen is just fantastic. Best of all it's not another recipe book about “how to make slides” — this is about re-imagining how your entire presentation will work together as a persuasive and integrated show, from conception through delivery. Awesome."
Merlin Mann
43folders.com
Seth Godin
Speaker and Blogger
Author, Meatball Sundae
"Garr is a beacon of hope for frustrated audiences everywhere. His design philosophy and fundamental principles bring life to messages and can invigorate careers. His principles of simplicity are as much a journey of the soul as they are restraint of the mouse."
Nancy Duarte
CEO, Duarte Design
"Presentation Zen is just fantastic. Best of all it's not another recipe book about “how to make slides” — this is about re-imagining how your entire presentation will work together as a persuasive and integrated show, from conception through delivery. Awesome."
Merlin Mann
43folders.com
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FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the conventional wisdom of making "slide presentations" in today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your presentations. Garr shares lessons and perspectives that draw upon practical advice from the fields of communication and business. Combining solid principles of design with the tenets of Zen simplicity, this book will help you along the path to simpler, more effective presentations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must read for speakers at all levels,
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This review is from: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
If you are giving a presentation in the near future, postpone it! Please read first Garr Reynolds' book Presentation Zen.
You think you are an expert presenter? I thought so, until I read this book. Now I am getting closer. Reynolds doesn't just explain why some presentations are good and most are bad, he really makes you realize why this is so and gives you a fundamental insight into how you prepare and deliver messages which the audience will understand and remember. This is a very practical and easy to read book, he explains and illustrates the power of simplicity and white spaces, simplify to amplify, good design principles, how to use pictures and where to place the text, contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity. And when you have made your presentation, he tells you how to deliver it, how to connect with the audience and be completely present. Your presentation will never be the same
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful but slim for the money and too many Kindle errors,
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This review is from: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, ePub (Kindle Edition)
I found the content of this book helpful and considered, and worth 4 stars. I expected the new age style given the title, and was really sold on the book by the neat foreword which I read in the Kindle free sample.
But I was expecting more given the price. "Leave them wanting more" is one of Garr's principles and he does urge us not to judge a presentation by its length alone. Quite right, but in the case of the book, many more examples to illustrate his points would have been helpful. However the main reason I have rated this 2 stars is the number of careless errors in the Kindle edition. Some of the images described in the text are missing, and the promised stock photo credit is absent. These are slapdash errors that would not bother me in a cheap or free e-book but they are unacceptable in an e-book at this price.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic! Every PowerPoint user should read this,
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This review is from: Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
This is a blueprint for creative, engaging, presentation design. Garr uses a Zen approach to designing simple, elegant and memorable slides that do so much more than the ubiquitous bulleted lists.
Grounded in principles of graphic design, his advice had a huge influence on my presentation style and I have consistently received positive feedback from audiences (for example, one person who attended a day's workshop that consisted of no more than 40 slides in total, said it was the best workshop she'd ever attended and held her attention throughout). The book takes you through the whole sequence from identifying your key message, preparing to design the slides, the actual design and composition through to delivery. Simple changes, such as removing "chart junk" (eg a fancy 3D effect with a texture fill on the bars) and just presenting a flat, clear bar chart with one bar highlighted in another colour to make a point, can make a huge difference. More subtle changes, such as a soft shadow on text, and changing text colour from black to a dark grey, still add impact and mark out your slides from all the template followers. This book will revolutionise your approach to presentations.
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