The Beauty of Good PowerPoint - PresentationZEN

We are trapped in world of BORING, MEDIOCRE PowerPoint presentations. People tend to use and re-use the same templates, fonts and clip-art making one presentation seem like the next and the next and the next. Then you get people like Guy Kawasaki, Steve Jobs and Seth Godin who set themselves apart by creating really cool, simple powerful slides.

A few years back Garr Reynolds made it his mission in life to save us from a certain slow painful death from boring corporate PowerPoint. He launched a really cool, insightful and relevant blog called Presentation Zen. He has now followed this up with a SUPERB book by the same name: PRESENTATION ZEN. If you expect to develop or deliver a slide presentation in the next 12 months then you have to read this book.

Things I love about the book:
The book highlights fundamental design principles in an easy to understand way -- even a boring accountant (like me) can get what Garr is saying.
Garr uses many before and after examples of slides to illustrate the principles he introduces.
Garr draws on the thinking of many other insightful authors such as Dan Pink - A Whole New Mind, Chip and Dan Heath - Make to Stick and Ben Zander - The Art of Possibility.
The forward by Guy Kawasaki - all done in slides - is super cool.
Garr Reynolds did the entire design and layout for the book himself.
The book touches on all aspects of presentation - preparation, design, development and delivery.
Garr shares web resources for cool pictures
The book includes examples of good presentations for a whole range of topics from other other presenters

It is a GREAT book that will transform your view on design and enable you to create and deliver top quality presentations.