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Back to basics: going analogue using the pencil (+ a bit of self-relativation)

A nice presentation by cartoonist Betsy Streeter on the front page of SlideShare today:
Ten Great Uses for a Pencil
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: streeter cartooning)
Two "so whats" for me:
  1. Go back to the pencil when designing presentations. Sketch, erase, sketch, sketch again. A much better creative tool than opening the PowerPoint standard template. Design your slide offline, PowerPoint is a production tool to get your original idea in digital form. Nothing more.
  2. A bit of self-relativation: it is amusing to see how professional presentation designers (ME INCLUDED) increasingly resort to using "back to analogue" techqniques to make their point. We've come full circle when we start pasting 10MB high-res scans of a piece of paper, a sticky note, etc. into PowerPoint.  Why not bring the physical flip chart page to the presentation event and leave the laptop in the office? This reminds me a little bit of the joke of the investment banker who worked 100 hour work weeks to retire at 45 and settle in a Mediterranean village to spend the day fishing. His fellow local fisher man has been doing this since he was 15 without going through the trouble. (A better, longer version of the joke here).