Presentations Glossary

Visual Clichés: Target and Dart Pictures

How many times have you seen slides that include pictures of targets and darts, especially when the presenter wanted to emphasize that targets need to be met, or wanted to celebrate the success of a target met? If the last sentence itself sounded so clichéd, imagine how clichéd that slide must appear to the audience? To express similar concepts using different visuals, we will first have to explore what targets and darts represent in the first place.

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Visual Clichés: Target and Dart Pictures

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Visual Clichés: Light Bulb Pictures

If someone wants a visual to express a bright idea, chances are they will use a picture of a light bulb! And probably there are thousands of people who decide to use that picture of a light bulb for the same reason. and that’s made it a visual cliché! OK, now one has to wonder, does a bright idea concept even visualize as something other than a light bulb?

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Visual Clichés: Light Bulb Pictures

Tutorial Code: 09 13 06
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Visual Clichés: Teamwork Pictures

Rob’s presentation had this picture concept and so did Sam’s, and so do countless other slides. What’s this picture concept that populates so many slides? Why is it so popular? And more importantly, why is it so over-used? First of all, let’s admit that the reason why a picture concept gets clichéd is that it is good to start with; but then it’s too good for its own existence. Rampant over-use means that the emotions that this picture concept evoked do not work anymore. And that’s exactly what happened with the teamwork picture that showed many, many hands placed together.

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Visual Clichés: Teamwork Pictures

Tutorial Code: 09 13 05
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Markus Hannebauer

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