Powerpoint templates (non-ugly)
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- RepusII
Hi,
I'm looking for powerpoint templates, but the only ones I find on the web are incomprehensibly ugly. So I thought people here would probably know the hideout of the cool powerpoint templates.
Thanks!
- Mojo0
You have to do them yourself; are you a designer?
- Mojo0
I mean, I haven't seen any.
- Mojo0
Office 2007 has some nice slides, but that doesn't help I guess.
- Mojo0
Oh, IT people? It doesn't have to look amazing, IT people produce crap PPs so .. I dunno
- RepusII0
I even tried torrents, downloaded 900 mg of templates ... my god how do people find the guts to show these to people haha
- Daro0
- Ramanisky20
what exact category of look are you searching for?
- wetzel0
Nothing created in PP isn't incomprehensibly ugly. Design your own PDF slideshow...
- RepusII0
Clean and simple, no high tech gizmos, no wires and servers, no "abstract ice looking objets". The more abstract it is thought the better, I want people focusing on my content not my presentation (hehe).
The one i'm planning on using if I don't find better is this one :
or this one :
(maybe more the 1st one there)
- Meeklo0
trick request..
the words powerpoint and non-ugly can never be on the same sentence
- RepusII0
http://www.templateswise.com/ is the only site I found with decent stuff. Hard to believe such a widely used software has so little quality templates.
- Mojo0
Read this book, and read change the typography of your layout.
Easy.
- RepusII0
Hehe well I've given up on design years ago, and besides my presentation is tomorow, so unless I develop "Number 5 like skills" there aren't big chances I'll read it.
- Mojo0
I was kidding :) It's a big horrible (but wonderful and fantastic) book on the creation of grids for design, written in the 50s.
I have it in hardback, but I can't say I've got through it all!
- Ramanisky20
part of my job is creating templates ... the problem is that you have to create many many templates per month so you don't have a lot of time to work on each individual one ... and your designing mostly for business types (suit & tie folk) .. who are not looking for stylish modern design .....
- powerpointstyles0
Hello !Thanks for these websites ressources, try these also for free powerpoint templates : http://www.powerpointstyles.com and http://www.freepptfiles.com
Also, nice website, keep it up!
Bye,
Jenny
- BaskerviIle0
if you're talking about a presentation that you control then there's no reason you can't design it in InDesign and then import jpgs to powerpoint.
If you're talking about a true template then certain things come into play. You can design the template in indesign but as soon as you start importing images etc, the file size goes up and your aim should be to create as small template file as possible (imagine a deck that is 200 slides long with bg jpgs etc).
But your main enemy in PPT (and why I would never choose to use ppt) is typography. You just have no real control over any of it really. You can't fix things in place in a template as much as you'd like, and things like leading and even the way the type renders is just shockingly bad.
I had to do a template for a large consultancy (one of my clients) as part of a global rebrand, they have 140,000 employees wordwide so it was a big deal getting it right. It actually looked pretty good in the end, very minimal, clean, no effects at all. It's just that the type let things down a bit in the end. And you have no control over what the end user will insert.
- d_rek0
I think someone posted this a while back - had it bookmarked:
http://noteandpoint.com/- this is good - well a lot better than usual crapckentish