Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations, Second Edition

1. Design Matters

Philosopher’s Road in Kyoto, Japan.

Presentation and design lessons are all around us, even in something as seemingly unrelated as a beautifully prepared traditional Japanese meal. A few years ago on a late fall afternoon, a friend and I were walking along Tetsugaku no Michi (Philosopher’s Road) in the city of Kyoto. After our walk, we stopped in a local restaurant for a traditional meal. Japanese-style meals are called washoku. The kanji characters for washoku () literally represent “harmony” and “food,” and harmony is indeed ...