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Book Report: Slide:ology

I Have Seen The Light.

Why in the world has it taken this long to bring out a great book on presentation design?! Is it because we all avoid slide work like the plague? Is it because real designers don’t “do” slides? Or is it just a misunderstood medium?

Enter into the picture Nancy Duarte and her beautiful new book, Slide:ology: The art and science of creating great presentations. (Nancy’s firm created Al Gore’s Oscar-winning presentations for An Inconventient Truth)

Here’s what Presentation Zen author Garr Reynolds had to say in a recent review, “…(it’s) my favorite presentation book of all time”—that’s a significant endorsement considering his book’s huge popularity.

From his review:

Slide:ology is practical, it’s highly visual, and it’s beautiful. I love this book. Slide:ology should come bundled with every copy of PowerPoint or Keynote ever sold from now on. I received a draft copy about three months ago that blew me away — the final product is even better than I expected. I just got my copy over the weekend. At 274 pages, the book is meaty without being bloated. This book is not the last word on presentation, but it’s the best book on the art (and science) of creating and delivering presentations with the help of multimedia written to date. Period.

And I need to mention they have a great site, blog and mini-library of downloadable PowerPoint slides from the book case studies?

Source: Thank you Rachel Nussbaum & Presentation Zen

Tags: Al Gore, An Inconventient Truth, Nancy Duarte, PowerPoint, presentation design, presentation zen, presentations, rachel nussbaum, slide:ology, sliderocket