by Paolo | 22 April 2019 | Blog, Public speaking
Artists may be introspective and talk to themselves, communicators shouldn’t. Aim at a wide audience, let your message spread around and convey it so that it can be absorbed and appreciated also by people who don’t have your cultural background, your...
by Paolo | 31 March 2019 | Blog, Public speaking
Here is an easy one: readability. What is readable is your friend, and friend of your message. What is unreadable is an enemy and buries your message. Readability is about font family, size, colour, contrast (but also what is written, acronyms, buzzwords, …etc)...
by Paolo | 25 March 2019 | Blog, Public speaking
This seems a technical rule, and whilst it is, we can all apply it without too much hassle. Text is a set of lines, bends, dots and other elements. It has a colour, a thickness, a position, in other words it is a graphic as much as an image, a diagram or a photograph....
by Paolo | 23 March 2019 | Blog, Public speaking
Here is a rule I ignored in this post image, and without any valid motive I just could not do it better. The book cover, the series title, this post title… all smudged together, it’s not as it should be. What is negative space? We could call it the...
by Paolo | 22 March 2019 | Blog, LearnFromTED, Public speaking
#LearnFromTED is back and let’s go strait to the talk, this time it about poverty and the presenter is Rutger Bregman (it’s worth noticing that Chris Anderson pick this as one of the top 10 talks of 2017). Leave aside the topic, what can we learn from this...
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