Leslie Herring
 

 Presentation Design

Art Direction, Design, Branding, Animation

A pitch deck, client presentation, or Keynote speech is a common and often poorly designed asset for many companies. I helped take these company presentations to the next level.

 

Key ways to help presentations is to simplify slides, cleanup or recreate confusing or ugly graphics, illustrate abstract concepts, animate, and create template pages so future edits of a presentation have a good starting point once it’s out of a designer’s hands.

I helped design & was in charge of construction the final presentations in Keynote & PowerPoint. See select slides from each presentation below.

General Electric

Applied Intelligence Keynote

Under Art direction from the First Person motion team, we created am mix of 3D and 2D images in After Effects as well as in Keynote to craft a presentation for GE Healthcare. I helped concept some of the 2D pages and applied our digital bit style.

Minds & Machines Slide Animation
Minds & Machines Slide Animation

Minds & Machines Keynote

First Person crafted multiple presentations for GE’s Minds & Machines event. Each Keynote needed a unified look, with just enough variation for each speaker. I crafted custom icons for GE to use in their presentation, recreated graphs to fit the new style & be used in animations, and simplified concepts into easy to digest slides. I helped animate some 2D slides in After Effects myself, and worked with motion graphics designers & 3D artists for the 3D animated slides.

Power Generation Powerpoint

I worked with 3D designers to create backdrops for the PowerPoint, while simplifying the original presentation’s overly crowded pages into more bite-sized content. I also crafted custom icons for GE to use in across their presentations.


United Technologies Slide Animation
United Technologies Slide Animation

United Technologies

Keynote

I worked under direction from a Creative Director and Art Directed motion graphics artists to create this animated Keynote. Starting with still image style frames for concept, I specifically communicated the vision for slide backdrops to motion graphic artists to pair with Keynote animated editable text. I also created several in-Keynote slide designs and animations as well.


Kimpton Slide Animation
Kimpton Slide Animation

Kimpton Hotels

Steve Pinetti Workshops Keynote

Working under Art Direction from a motion graphics artist, I helped create new text animations both in After Effects and in Keynote for my first Kimpton Keynote. Eventually I took over creating designs for all of Steve Pinetti’s workshop presentations and translated his broad & sometimes nebulous concepts into tangible imagery, enhancing his existing training workshops.

Karma Powerpoint

Working with Kimpton’s updated brand standards, I crafted their customer service training presentation. Kimpton images were carefully selected for each slide, and I focused on Kimpton’s reputation for providing amazing experiences for their guests.

Hotels & Restaurants PowerPoint

Kimpton Hotels are always expanding. This presentation featured upcoming properties and Kimpton’s future goals for creating great hotels nationally and internationally.


VRX

Pitch Deck Keynote

VRX is a Virtual Reality based startup specifically focused on delivering media for VR experiences. While VR technology advanced, content was thin. For this pitch deck I created a concept logo, quick branding, and designed a presentation to express VRX’s position in the VR pipeline.


Market Price Tonight

Pitch Deck Keynote

Market Price Tonight is an app that provides unprecedented access to a curated collection of the world’s best restaurants. For this pitch deck to recruit restaurants to the app and obtain more investment funding, I used the newly created brand design to convey the companies benefits, and relay case studies and successes already achieved.


Inspire

Pitch Deck Powerpoint

Inspire is an Environmental Control Systems company that provides advanced solutions for high‐end cultivation facilities in the indoor agriculture industry. I created a brand identity, print and trade show assets, and a website for this company. This pitch deck details the company’s capabilities and expertise to new customers.