Howard Mall had exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to talk. With 50 people looking on, Mall zipped through his PowerPoint presentation called “20 Ideas You Can Steal,” which included crude drawings of ...

Photo: Yama Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive ...

Pecha kucha-- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah-- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter." But for a small but growing band of international designers, artists and ...

It's the bane of students, business people and even the military: If you've ever yawned through a slideshow, you're probably familiar with that dreaded malady of modern times, known as "Death by ...

A couple of years ago, I found myself teaching a section of a class that mandated a PowerPoint presentation. (That is, to keep my section aligned with the others, I had to require such a presentation.

The concept for Pecha Kucha is simple: Speakers share ideas using 20 slideshow images that automatically change every 20 seconds. There's no stopping and no do-overs, so every presentation is exactly ...

If you happen to be in San Francisco this evening, June 21st, you might want to attend SPUR’s Pecha Kucha Night. Starting at 6:30 you can hear and see designers, thinkers and doers cover a range of ...