Slide Composition Principles

[Joel B. Kohm]

I'm interested in the basics of slide composition - using title, picture,
labels, text as a tool of visual rhetoric in court proceedings. I find the
stock PowerPoint layouts do not sufficiently emphasize the visual components
of a complex slide. Are there any manuals, websites, software, that will
help with the slide composition where the emphasis is on the visual. I'm
thinking, for example, of some basic rules, like the rule of thirds for
photographs, but applicable to the entire slide.

Joel B. Kohm
Barrister & Solicitor

 

[Guest]

I think that the following book will be very helpful to you:

Kristof, R. & Satran, A. (1995). Interactivity by design: Creating and
communicating with new media. Mountain View, CA: Adobe Press.

It is 10 years old and not specific to PowerPoint, but I think that it will
have a lot of useful information for you. You can find it at Amazon, for
example, at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568302215/qid=1113098009

--David

David Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[tosime]

There is a lot of material on the internet on graphic design principles.
These principles apply to all design.

Do searches for things like "graphic design principles" add balance,
proportion, eye movement, layout, harmony etc. for more specific examples.

PowerPoint is a subset of basic graphic design.

....Tony

 

[Marshall]

Testing

There is a lot of material on the internet on graphic design principles.
These principles apply to all design.

Do searches for things like "graphic design principles" add balance,
proportion, eye movement, layout, harmony etc. for more specific examples.

PowerPoint is a subset of basic graphic design.

...Tony