05-presentation-storytelling.md

Presentation as Storytelling

• Brief
• Presentation
• Inspiration
• Essentials
• Extra Credit
• Lectures
• Readings
• Resources

Brief

Design is storytelling.

— Ellen Lupton, designer (writer, curator, and educator)

Everything is a remix. Remix the content from the semester into a short presentation. You may show work from this course, other courses (past or current), an internship, or maybe the work of another or others that have inspired you, etc.

If you’re a minimalist designer — show us, tell us. If you’re passionate about details — show us, tell us. And if you’re in love with typography, color, etc. — tell us a story through your design work. What would you present at a Creative Mornings talk (but shorter)?

Presentation

You decide the flow. Keep it short, smart, and simple, but tell a story. It could be a case study, or your story as a designer, or what you love about design. You decide the story. You tell the story. You design the story.

Format

• Content first, with text and images in Markdown (and a link to the PDF version).
• Design second, with the same text and images, as a PDF.

≈ 20 minutes overall via Zoom on December 15 or 22.

• Final presentation (5–10 minutes)
• Walkthrough of all course assignments and optional extra credit (≈ 5 minutes)
• Feedback (≈ 5 minutes)

Note: You must attend both final classes to support your colleagues.

GitHub Config

• Create a project folder (repo) with a Markdown file and a PDF file, plus an img folder with images.
  • For example:
    • 05-presentation-stoytelling
      • presentation-2020-jgagne.md
      • presentation-2020-jgagne.pdf
      • img
        • …
        • …
        • …

Markdown Files

Think of your Markdown file as an article or outline to your presentation, it’s the write-up version.

• presentation-2020-jgagne.md

Example Outline

This is not a how-to, but a loose suggestion. You can do better than this.

- Introduction, About, etc.
- Title
  - Blockquote
  - Artwork
    - Caption, short description.
- Title
  - Short description.
    - Artwork
      - Caption, short description.
    - Artwork
      - Caption, short description.
    - Artwork
      - Caption, short description.
- Title
  - Short description.
    - Artwork
    - Artwork
    - Artwork
      - Caption, short description.
- Title
  - Short description.
    - Artwork
      - Caption, short description.
- …
- Thank You, Contact(s), etc.

Inspiration

• Introducing Jaroslav Benda
  • README Rediscovering a long-lost master designer
• F*ck You, Pay Me
• Design and disovery

Essentials

English for Designers Home Page

Create a home page for all content from English for Designers including Presentation as Storytelling and the optional Five Things I Learned This Semester.

• See my work-in-progress home page as a starter, as outlined in Curriculum Vitae Wrap-Up.

Lessons (Assignments)

1. Character & Description

• Write a short alternative text description, around 100 characters (120 character at most), about the overall appearance and key detail(s) of the artwork.
  • See alt attributes like paragraphs

2. Intentional Aboutness
3. Curriculum Vitae
4. Voice & Tone
5. Presentation as Storytelling

Extra Credit

Five Things I Learned This Semester

Create a page listing your top five takeaways, things I learned this semester, using text, links, images, etc.

• 06-semester-takeaways
  • semester-takeways.md

Markdown Files

• semester-takeways.md

## Five Things I Learned This Semester

1. …
2. …
3. …
4. …
5. …

Lectures

• Why storytelling matters
• The cues to a great story

Readings

• Presentation Design and the Art of Visual Storytelling

Resources

Writing Tools (Linters)

Use a combination of both writing linters to revise text.

• Grammarly
  • Aim for a score of 80 and above
• Hemingway Editor
  • Aim for a readability of Grade 9 or lower

Punctuation Guide

Please reference to improve punctuation. At least use the top ten punctation tips in your review process.

• The Punctuation Guide
  • Top ten punctuation tips