PowerPoint Designer £35K?
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- monoboy
Am I missing something...
http://www.designweek.co.uk/Jobs…
*Must be able to import graphics from file.
- BaskerviIle0
I'm pretty shit hot at powerpoint which is a sad reflection on the more inevitable parts of the job of a designer.
I'd also like £35k, but you'd have to offer me a lot more than that to get me to do powerpoint full time.
- skt0
that is why the pay is so high. the crushing boredom of the job will probably make you self harm.
- Hahahauncle_helv
- cool, I'm all about that anyway.
*applieskelpie
- monoboy0
I don't get the thinking process behind employing somebody just to implement PowerPoint presentations. And the salary? Eh?
- uncle_helv0
BaskerviIle— "I'm pretty shit hot at powerpoint which is a sad reflection on the more inevitable parts of the job of a designer."
Yep very true, nothing worse than doing a very comprehensive, beautiful brand identity and then having to do the powerpoint presentation for the internal relaunch/roll out, although I guess you get to see the branding in it's cheapest shittest form!
- detritus0
PP's an arse - but I don't agree with 'cheapest shittest form' - it's just another digital template. If you have problems embedding a bitmap in a MS application then.. well, you have problems.
- lowimpakt0
realistically, what are the other options are there for making a business presentation that can be modified on the move?
i'd be interested to know.
- canuck0
Not gonna lie, i've seen some alright powerpoint presentations. You can actually do a lot with the program beyond the click to next slide function.
- BaskerviIle0
PPT can be ok, you just need to design everything in illustrator or indesign first. Treat it like a webpage or regular presentation. Then you compromise a bit on things like type. I'm pretty proud of making nice looking template for some major corporations. Clean, minimal powerpoints are very rare things indeed.
Best alternative for your own presentations is just present full screen PDF slideshow, do it all in indesign, takes seconds to export.
- skt0
i have to do a bunch for our pr department, and without fail, every presentation they do, they manage to destroy them.
then i can't say i'm a fan of our agencies identity anyway.
- lowimpakt0
"PPT can be ok, you just need to design everything in illustrator or indesign first. Treat it like a webpage or regular presentation. "
we do this all the time in work. To be honest, if i'm presenting to government or academic people, type is the least of my worries.
- BaskerviIle0
Only thing worse than working in PPT – writing about it in an online deisgn forum
:)- At least you can get paid for the former...detritus
- I get paid by Microsoft to chat about the virtues of PPT on online forums (or should it be fora?)BaskerviIle
- skt0
good point. i'll be in the london transport thread, pissing on the seats.
- Raniator0
'Ensuring they are fit for purpose...'
Fuck me, they don't even need to be very good. My old boss used to say to people things were 'fit for purpose', when what he actually meant was 'it's shit, but you've ran out of time and my bollocks are on the line so it will have to do'...
- uncle_helv0
Never seen a good powerpoint, the only part I have designed is the template the copy is always shoe horned in by whoever was doing the presentation, can't say I'm too familiar with designing a whole presentation, that would kill me, have designed pdf presentations for pitches though!
- Raniator0
The main problem with most people's PowerPoint presentations (apart from the obvious) is that they are too copy heavy. Having paragraph upon paragraph crammed on a page only to have the speaker repeat it word for word is pointless.
Less copy = more creative possibility & better presentation.