From EMS's website. Good for page summation text.

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Nice Animated Titles

 Besides the fact that this whole video is pretty amazing, I really like the way the titles enter (starting at about 10 seconds).
 

Motion typography

Well, you're not doing this in PowerPoint, but it is inspiring just how much power you can get without much more than text alone.

770 Broadway

Some more of that text that dips out of the frame, here in a really cool application.

Lincoln, looking pretty hip

This is actually the graphic that made me want to start this blog. I saw it on a huge banner while walking uptown, past the New York Historical Society, and it stopped me in my tracks. I love the stark simplicity and how it combines an old image with really current design. It's hard to see here, but in the print ad the white parts are actually just a bit yellowed (more than the natural color of the newsprint), combining with the muted blue and red to evoke a 150-year-old cotton American flag. I'm not sure I'll ever get to use design like this in a PowerPoint presentation, but it's an inspiration.

 

And while I'm at it, the header on the New York Historical Society website is pretty cool, too. Is there a term for text that dips into white space below like that? I've tried to do it a few times, but it never looks quite right for me.

Old, but excellent post on good PowerPoint design

I just discovered this post on Juice Analytics (actually, just discovered Juice Analytics) and it's too good not to share. It's generally about the "less is more" design philosophy as applied to PowerPoint. My inclination is always toward clean, elegant simplicity, although I do believe that some repeated graphical elements can be valuable for branding and visual interest. I think this post shows how the impact of one strong image or one strong sentence is very powerful.

 

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