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Creating a presentation by hand using calligraphy

by baijum on 11/11/17, 1:35 PM with 22 comments

  • by matt_wulfeck on 11/11/17, 4:23 PM

    Beautiful handwriting. Letter writing is a lost art, both in writing and meaning. Doesn’t anyone know or recommend a pen-pal websites where people exchange hand-written letters just for fun? My hand-writing is horrendous (as my spelling) and I’d love to get better at it.

  • by SwellJoe on 11/11/17, 8:48 PM

    I'm always jealous of folks who can draw/write effectively and beautifully. I'm dysgraphic, so even writing legibly on a whiteboard is not really an option for me; I mean, I can struggle through and make it legible if I take about five times as long as someone else would take, but even then the writing won't be beautiful, by any definition. Writing on the chalkboard in school was a real source of stress.

    One of my favorite presentations ever was a description of public key encryption where the presenter used hand-drawn cartoons and drew some in real time. And, one of my favorite explainer videos is the Food is Free intro video, which is all hand-drawn by one of the founders of the project (who's also in the band BLXPLTN, among others; he's pretty good evidence that talent isn't evenly distributed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlC-4MgfICU

  • by amrrs on 11/11/17, 5:23 PM

    That's good. I've seen your calligraphy passion and skills separately on twitter. This is a nice combo when a techie can be more than a techie which is very common in the west where a developer also fishes or surfs, but being in india Noufal you're an inspiration!

  • by j0hnM1st on 11/11/17, 11:10 PM

    this is cool

  • by metahost on 11/11/17, 4:46 PM

    tl;dr: Make beautiful presentations with calligraphy

    I might be mistaken, the post doesn't link to an article providing insights on preparation of a keynote presentation.

  • by BrentOzar on 11/11/17, 2:32 PM

    tl;dr - writing your slides out in calligraphy is hard.

    The post would be better reframed as, “calligraphy is hard and time-consuming.” Doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with a keynote presentation. The output is gorgeous, but I’d be curious if you couldn’t get better results faster and cheaper with an outsourcing service.