My group's term project is focusing on Ensuring Environmental Sustainability. We will be presenting our project to the class, so I thought it would be a good idea to focus in on presentation styles that work well for a large audience.
Both of the above images show very important aspects of presentation. The top one utilizes white space with great effect. This is a good way to bring focus to a certain image.
The second image will work very well for my group project. The map does a good job of informing the reader of location and is a clean way to display information.
Both images found at http://www.graphis.com/brandingusa.php
The crooked picture on top catches the eye and causes the reader to actually digest the image in order to understand it. This rotation of the image is a good strategy to break up monotony and draw the eye to the image.
The second photograph shows the importance of light and shadow. Correctly using the properties will create a very dramatic effect.
Both images were found at http://www.polyscene.com/
The above images are both fairly common ways to display information, in a graph or in a diagram. The reason I chose these is because of how the images were used to the advantage of the writer. The above graph shows a drastic change, therefore making the reader more interested and intrigued by the subject. The diagram is very well put together and the use of bright colors and different size fonts draws the eye in and actually makes you want to look at it. The main reason I chose both of these is because they caught my eye and I actually stopped and read the information they offered. This is the most important goal of any information-conveying tool.
This image was used in an article which was titled, “Does Daylight Savings Time Save Energy?” Not only did the photograph catch my eye and make me crack a smile, it also is representing another issue in our society: the blind acceptance of “facts.” I think this is a great eye-opener as it lets people start questioning what they see as fact and possible make a change in their own lives. On the topic of sustainability, it is incredibly relevant as many don’t understand the impact small changes can have.
The above image was found at http://earth2tech.com/
I found this image very interesting. It is a creative way to display one image-or many- and makes you rethink what it is to present images.
It was found at http://www.tofslie.com/
This is a very attractive layout. It focuses on one main image on one side and then shows thumbnails of less important images. This would work very well for a presentation on sustainability in low-income housing. If we were to do a case study on an existing home, the thumbnails would allow for details of important aspects without taking up numerous pages.
This image was found at http://www.commonbrand.com/
The images above show another way to focus on one image while also showing thumbnails. This style puts more focus on the thumbnails than the above image. I also like the siplicity of this document. It conveys a lot of information without the use of words. I think this is the key to a good presentation.
It was found at http://www.okapistudio.com/index.php?paged=3
