Basic ideas for dumping the template!

1. 10 Better Slide
Designs
Randy D. Nichols, Limestone University

2. #1: Title Slide
Full Graphic with Title @top & speaker
below

3. #2:
Text Left
Grap
hic
Right

4. Topic
Area:
Point!

5. #3 – Text Above: Graphic Below

6. Simple Text: Strong Graphic
• Tuesday in Library

7. #4: Text on top of Full
Graphic
• Simple Info
• In Bullets
• Below

8. Headline
• Facts
• Stats
• Points

9. #5: Text top
left
• Graphic Bottom Right
• Transparent is best

10. Clean Design
• Negative Space
• Draws the eye to the
textual and visual elements

11. (#6: full image – no text –
let pic do the talking)

13. Number or
Letter
• In the background
• Without Image?

14. Number or Letter

15. #8: Half & Half
• Split the page into two parts
• Half Visual / Half Textual

16. #8: Half & Half
• Works on either side

17. “#9: Quotation Slides
may
or may not have
graphics behind the
centered quote.”
-Famous Person

18. “#9: Quotation Slides
may or may not have
graphics behind the
justified quote.”
-Famous Person

19. #10: Make something
new!

20. Randy D. Nichols, PhD
Professional Communications
Limestone University
rhetoricsoup.com

21. All images “freegal” (free and legal) from selected image sites listed in Dr. Nick’s Pinterest Board for Freegal
Images: https://www.pinterest.com/randydnichols/freegal-images-for-multimodal-composition/