28 Creative PowerPoint and Keynote Presentation Designs
There’s a certain art to putting together a solid presentation and PowerPoint and Keynote are the primary tools of the trade. The “art” comes into play when you’re trying to set yourself apart; so how you use the tools is of great importance. Often it is the design of the presentation itself that does the trick. In an effort to help you put together a great-looking presentation, here are 28 examples of creative presentation designs using Powerpoint and Keynote:
1. 1 Billion Hungry Project
2. What the F**k is Social Media NOW?
3. How to Get Started as a Web Entrepreneur
4. Cost Effective Web Development Techniques
5. Good vs. Great(er) Design
6. Communication Patterns
7. Fast and Furious Startups
8. Designing iPhone & iPad Apps
9. What Developers and Designers Don’t Get…
10. Kill procrastination
11. Get Stoked on Web Typography SXSW 2010
12. Due Diligence for Angel Investments
13. Soap
14. Creative Thinking
15. Burn Your PowerPoints
16. 40 More Slides + Memorable Quotes from Cannes Lions 2010
17. The Creative Brief: A Research Project
18. 100 Beautiful Slides from Cannes Lions 2010
19. New Business Opportunities In Retail
20. I’m on Facebook, Now What?!
21. MagnetBoard (Template)
22. 8 Minutes for Creative Refreshment
23. How To Be Creative
24. Designing and Developing Windowed Interfaces for Web Apps
25. 2010 And Beyond
26. Implementing Design – Bulletproof A-Z
27. Building on the Shoulders of Giants
Presentation Resources
There are plenty of great resources online for presentation design, here are a few:
- GraphicRiver PowerPoint Templates
- Note and Point Presentation Gallery
- SlideRocket Presentation Showcase
- Slideshare Most Favourited
- PresentationZen
- Guy Kawasaki on Powerpoint Presentations
- 20 Free Powerpoint Templates that don’t suck
- 10 Premium Professional Powerpoint Themes
- How to Give a Rockstar Presentation
Know any other great resources? Comment them in!
Thank you so much! These were VERY interesting people with creative ideas. I hope my brain won’t explode to these things 😀
Keep up the good work!
I second you with that, woah! i’m gonna get stuck for a moment! Thanks guys.
Great collection Mike, thanks for sharing. I wish those creative brains will share all the stuff as open source design, great stuff….looking at it just made me give up on learning design.
pffffft… never give up. Don’t you think you have to learn something about design to appreciate it?
This is a very creative webpage full of promising and fluent artists with intresting peices of arts. Thank you for the post.
Wow, fantastic! Really awesome collection I’m feeling inspired. Keep up the good stuff.
im gona exploooooooooooodde..
Very creative work from around the world! would love more posts like this..!
I have not seen any better ppts in my life then these..thanks a lot…
Really cool and colorful presentations. Great work !!!
Cool stuff!
WOWWW!!!cool!!! tks a lot!!!
Awesome compilation, thanks!
Very cool!
yes very cool
Wow, 3 of these presentations are mine, i’m honored, thanks!
Jesse
So inspiring
Hi Mike, I have another presentation that you might like:
STEAL THIS PRESENTATION!
http://www.slideshare.net/GlobalGossip/steal-this-presentation-5038209
Heyy Jesse!
Jus saw your slides, nice work!
One question though, what you use? Powerpoint or Keynote?
Hi Neeraj,
I use mostly keynote for the creative ones.. but unfortunately I have to stick to PPT for the corporate internal presentations.
Jesse,
hmm…
I always wanted to create awesome presentations (i am a programmer by nature, so u can understand my natural immunity to designing aspects 🙂 )
Also, I will be stealing some ideas from your slides… hehe… if you don’t mind 🙂
cheers!
Hi Jesse, I’m intersting for your presentations, thanks for you.
So, I need ideas about my futur presentation with powerpoint. The topic is : Periruban landscape, I want do its graphic like the 3D films cinema. I hope do the original one. Can you help me?
Thank you very much.
Great Compilation! Thanks. I can apply some of the style on my day job. 🙂
Good job.
Really cool and creative presentations. I usually buy templates for powerpoint at place like http://www.presentationfuel.com or slideshoping.com and them customize them – these are much more creative!!!
Wow , I like them . Could you send them to me ?
Inspiring, and a great resource. Thankyou!
Great Idea..very inspiring..thx for sharing ^_^
Great resources! You could also try – http://www.24point0.com/latest-posts-on-ppt-tips/ for some advice and more resources on presentations.
Usually I use designs from http://www.smiletemplates.com but these also very creative. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic work! Greetings from Germany…
Some superb design there, thanks! I came across some lovely templates on graphic river – worth a look. http://graphicriver.net/user/DMXdesign/portfolio
Really superb!
Fantastic! Some of them actuallly made me feel desperated by comparing with my PPTs. Thanks for sharing them. from South Korea. : )
Thanks for sharing this wonderful collection…. feeling very inspired!
Just came across this site / post.
So tired of the same old boring corporate presentations and really want to work on adding some design…
Not only learning about great design here, but also content, structure, style etc..!
Awesome examples and great links !!
Next Gen PPT design. You might want to watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsilpUcoUM
very good
Thanks for sharing this wonderful collection…. feeling very inspired!
Great creativity on these ppts. (The links to the slideshare presentations seem to be broken though.) It’s nice to see some good ones.
I know powerpoint is still the standard, but with innovations like Prezi (www.prezi.com) I think that may be changing very soon.
Okay, so I am going to stand up and say I disagree. I have put my full name on this post so you can contact me directly (please, no death threats) but I think its important someone make some key points about this compilation.
A few key points before you start slamming me however. Firstly, I am REALLY committed to seeing presentation standards improve and I acknowledge this attempt at doing so. Secondly, I am not criticising the creativity and design elements included here…some of them are truly spectacular…but i am challenging the notion that they are killer slide decks. Thirdly I have been through many but not all of them. Fourthly, my business is about creating presentations (thats all we do) so I have the hands on experience to make these points. Finally, I am giving really shortened explanations of the issues that could take much longer than the space here to explain. I ask you to take what i say as the startiing point to ask “what makes a good presentation”…my aim is to add to the conversation here, not criticise whats on display.
So they are:
1. Nice looking slides dont necessarily make killer presentations, they can be badly designed slides from a presentation context.
2. A series of image slides, with which either dont make or communicate a key point on each slide does not make it a killer slide deck. Every slide must do one or the other of of those things. If I cant see the point of a slide, probably neither can athe audience, so therefore its a distraction not a contribution. (Key question here: why do you create a slide? Then, what rules guide you in what you put on it?)
3. Many of these decks are just a series if slides, one after the other, many having no visual consistency. Killer slide decks have a visual narrative that flows smoothly from one slide to the next, just like a verbal narrative. If you told a story verbally that was a disjointed verbally as some of the these decks are visually, would anyone be able to follow it? Why is visual different? Make a presentation where people cant even tell where one slide stops and another starts.
4. Prezi, keynote, powerpoint…if you think changing the software will make a difference you are looking in the wrong place. The only difference prezi makes is it makes people “motion sick by prezi” rather than “death by powerpoint” or “killed by keynote”.
5. Some are incedibly text heavy. These have been designed to be read, not presented, so they are documents not slide decks. As teh later they work but nit the former.
I could write much more but for the sake of allowing other poeple to make a contribution to this discussion I will leave it at that. As previously stated, my aim is to have you, as designers, distinguish between what works in a presentation and how that is a different environment than print or other media.
Yep. Reread the above.
It’s absolutely true there is a difference between effective presentation and amazing design, but the two are not exclusive. One can craft a great design template but not get the message across rendering it ineffective or present the information well but leave the viewer visually unimpressed.
In working with clients, crafting a deck is always tricky in a deliverable context as the client is both being presented to and given the deck for their own use. This usually requires a balanced mix between text heavy and lower content heavy slides.
The notion of a slide deck today isn’t what it used to be. It’s not always an in person interaction and they have to be able to speak for themselves. Many of these presentations weren’t in a business context, so following the same presentation principles of delivering a message on each slide doesn’t always apply. Slides are no longer shared with just the intended audience, they are shared socially to interested audiences around the world and creative template designs with heavier text help get that message across when no one is there to tell the story.
I can say all are so impressive that I can’t comment one !
Thanks for this. We’ve just started creating powerpoint slides and uploading them to Slideshare, so this has been great for providing us with inspiration.
Here a video I made entirely in Keynote ’09.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr_G23JQbBA
Thank you very much for that. I’m trying to come up with a relatively creative powerpoint presentation layout.
Awesome Ones! Thank You Very Much!
how to use it to microsoft powerpoint, is it for all editions of power point
Thank you for these designs. Absolutely inspiring!
I especially like #15 😀
Hi
can You please send to me this nice and beautiful presentation?
mu email:majd_nasim@yahoo.com
Cool collections..Really inspired a lot…
Thanks for sharing…
Great collection Mike, thanks for sharing. I wish those creative brains will share all the stuff as open source design, great stuff….looking at it just made me give up on learning design.
Wonderful PowerPoint and keynote slides/template can be found in http://www.slidesdesigner.com .
Check that out.
I cannot download any if below PPT, is there any other way to download them or not?
Are they PPT or PDF?
I mean is it possible to change their data and use their design or not?
Here is another great presentation service
http://www.pptwear.com
Great posting! Totally agree that you need to think outside of the box to elevate your presentations from plain text/info to impactful messages!
What a fantastic sharing!
Good work!
Amazing presentations indeed, and great ressources for creative inspiration. Thank you!
Great templates and very inspiring, none of the above is boring nor traditional, I think I can make use of any of them. Excellent job, thank you !
Nice work!!!
What about this one? http://www.novaty.com
Cheers,
Mike
Love, love, LOVE! Thanks!
excellent post, I loved ..
regards
Thanks a lot for these.
Some are really inspiring.
For more creative presentation ideas this may also be interesting:
https://itunes.apple.com/il/app/100-creative-presentation/id487096501?mt=8