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A collection of 504 issues

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.

National Convention 24s

These quadrennial American party conferences can be quite the timestamp. Showing where we're at with the mass glitzy presentation. They always seemed to me following on behind the latest big arena pop extravaganza staging. We're a long way on from a simple lectern on raised platform in front of tall