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Push & Pull Forces

Economists think of migration as being driven by a combination of push and pull factors, things which drive you away from your home country and things which draw you to your destination. The summary of one London-based broadsheet opinionista on a burning hot topic de jour. Simple swaps turn this

Next Level Presenting Ad

These twenty seconds are from a trio of mid-23 ads from a campaign called 'it's all about teamwork'. In case on first glance you weren't so sure, it's a parody. Above we see Abe. You can also hear elsewhere that app design so good was probably down to the feedback

Abysmal Performance Shown in Graphs on Health System Anniversary

Mainstream British media seemed more concerned with the chilling corral of children to sing 'happy birthday' to an institution with dystopian cult-ification rather than exposing why it's in need of its own urgent wellbeing intervention. As the UK taxpayer-funded, supposedly government-run health service reaches 75 years since inception, thankfully there

Top Trumps Card vs Status Quo

Above is a screenshot from the London broadsheet graphics team of The Telegraph [sub'n req'd]. Compiled the day before: Twitter issued a cease-and-decease notice against its latest microblogging challenger for perceived blatant copycat-ing; Threads' umbilical link to Instagram preventing pure account deletion caused it to be red-flagged as a 'saw

Part-Filled Data Bar

Here's a graphical treatment I saw recently worth noting. Via [sub'n req'd] the FT's Datawatch team. It's not all that often that we present data that is not a finished 'period'. Typically we've full Years, Quarters, Months and the like to show. Yet on occasion to chart a period only

Presidential Prompt Card

Here's a link from the employer of a canny photographer in what looks like the Downing Street Rose Garden this Monday. The notelet is in the palm of visiting American President, Joe Biden. I realise that many observers would dismiss this image. On account of feeling that the gentleman concerned

Google I/O Conference '23 Keynote Slides

My recent post brought about via a one-time slide maker for former ceo Eric Schmidt reminded me of a blog I posted five years back. Time for an update. As for the current chief exec, an ace presenter he is not. So you might say he needs his slidedeck to

Bullet Build Layering

Here's a rolling news slide treatment from London. A different slant on the traditional, yet tired, trope of animating bullets. So delaying reveal in time with your glowing speech. Otherwise, your audience reads ahead of you and fails to take in any of your words of wisdom, attention lapsed until

Google EA '06 Strategy Grounding

How to present In 2006, I helped @ericschmidt create a deck outlining Google’s strategy, for a presentation Eric was delivering to the company. It taught me a profound lesson on how to present. When I showed up to my first meeting with Eric, he asked me to visit with

Number Slide When Headline Guaranteed

Our latest estimates show around 606,000 more people came to the UK than left in 2022: ▪️ total long-term immigration was around 1.2 million ▪️ emigration was 557,000 ➡️ https://t.co/04Rbgiv12v pic.twitter.com/H4ne9A3f3p — Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) May 25, 2023 UK media worked itself