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Top Animator, Murder Club Bestseller Author & Biggest Daytime DJ on Storytelling

Recently I've heard a trio of luminaries touch on storytelling tips. Kicking off with the starkest. A resurfaced clip from Trey Stone. Of South Park and Team America World Police fame. When recounting a tale, never hear yourself saying, "and then...". In context; "We can take these beats which are

Deadlock Mapping

A coin-toss clean sweep. Knife-edge landslide. Who saw that coming? The just-completed US Presidential campaign seems to have delivered plenty of gasps all-round. One arena pertinent to us though, is in the visuals. Beyond the sloganising vibes/joy/brat or ᴍᴀɢᴀ 2.0 slants. Into graphical representation of projections, status

Post-Race Telemetry Graph

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Formula Collective (@formula_collective) Has Formula One motor racing suddenly become interesting? For once there's competition for world champion. Which one hopes won't be decided in controversial, underhand, non-track manner of the last close contest. The era's leading team is being

Budget Burden Briefs

I read much of Britain recoiled in Halloween horrors after the first government budget of The Left for fourteen years. Or for those of a 'tax and spend' persuasion, very much more Treat than Trick. It's rare any budget receives warm welcome. This particular morning after giving rise not just

Players Purposeful Text Slide

Above I link to a press conference snap that certainly caught my eye this week. Remarkably, at this time I cannot find the same text repeated online. So here it is; "Leagues and players seek a fair and inclusive decision-making procedure to ensure the wellbeing of football players, viability of

Bankster Slidedeck Reality

There's a third season of Industry out. A TV drama-cum-exposé of merchant bank traders. Despite the littering of finance jargon, favourable reviews flow. What I enjoyed about the PR prior the latest series, were the pieces that seek to judge the veracity of the show. Is real-life corporate gambling banking

Finding Their Triangle of Sadness

The Times (London's) this week reported the average salary of a UK university head honcho. Known as a vice-chancellor. Across the country's 140-strong higher ed estate, it is an astonishing £325K. There are genuinely world-leading colleges across Glorious Albion. Proudly attending one of the world's top b-schools myself. With a

Upfront Best Bits Reel Danger

British National Treasure Michael Palin, at the tender age of 81, releases the latest volume of his best-selling diaries. Amid the launch PR lamenting, with disgruntled missed-chance bemusement, how his quarter-century BBC career of (hugely popular) traveloguing ended. His last series for them being about Brazil in 2012. Since when

Then And Now Slide

Edward Tufte would be proud. A trailblazer in how to present data. Among his many guideline presentation concepts, he cited his Magic Number. This related to when you ought use a numeric table, or a chart. I often see a presentation slide with a graphic when nicely listed numbers would

Your Unique Diagram

I got reminded of all the options listed in my book, 101 Diagrams That Sell. Someone working on a presentation deck (yes, salespeople are still doing so) was busy constructing bulleted points of steps. There's such a striking switch open here. From text to image. Swap words for a pic.