presentations

I walked through a trade conference. Not being my area of operation, I was intrigued to see how the 75 assembled vendors framed their world. In the main, I was struck by how little had changed over the past three decades in this domain of the annual supplier stall set-up.

This is the siren emoji. Which is, the internet tells me, aka “Police Cars Revolving Light”. It’s also what returns top if you search ‘klaxon emoji’. I’ve seen it used liberally by tweeters. Desperate to give their mini ‘breaking news’ style broadcast extra heft. Used across the spectrum

America’s National Hurricane watchers clearly have a big printer. Above is their widely shared printout of an early forecast for 2019’s Hurricane Dorian. Deemed such a threat, that in this Oval Office press event, the US President warned that the incoming storm was “a monster”. Not every office

[https://automattic.com/work-with-us/] This random ad flashed before me. Occupying only a small fraction of the laptop screen, it still caught my eye. And not only because I was one of their very first bloggers on the WordPress platform developed by these pre-2.0 digital natives. Their original was

Very much enjoying the mass of #moonlanding50 documentaries as we hit this momentous anniversary. The image up-top takes the stars from the Flat Earth Society (I know!) and puts them in the two main colours of the circular bands around Apollo 11’s badge. This alone, in your own colours

[https://news.sky.com/story/science-storms-and-protests-behind-climate-crisis-11744227] Another week, another [https://salespodder.com/plastic-problem-pitching/] climate change journalist thread. London based Sky News broadcast their latest series of eco-reports, called A New Climate. The header image above struck me for being the type of three-way horizontal bar split readily adaptable for a

This is in effect the title slide from the flotation prospectus of ‘ride-hailing app’ Lyft. The ‘y’ by the way, apparently standing for “why”. I know… As “mission statements” go, it’s sadly a shocker. All hail … the personal jetpack! Leaving the b-school Strategy module lesson to one side, does

We’re suffocating our home, and smothering all those with whom we share it. Susie Cagle duly illustrates [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/23/all-the-plastic-ever-made-study-comic] the plastic produced predicament. Here’s a selection of her drawings with Sales presenting links. The first (above) is a stacked bar in

I often find a cheeky remix-ripe design-leaning newsjack sales slide irresistible. Somehow, my feeds this weekend felt flooded with a ladies’ polka dot dress [https://www.zara.com/uk/en/printed-dress-p04886058.html?v1=14694309&v2=1143013] from Euro-giant Zara. At forty quid, quite the must-have Summer item it seems.