We receive many comments and tweets every week with super creative prezis attached. Usually we forward them around the office and advertise online, sharing inspiration with others. Now we have decided to open a new channel on the Prezi blog for the most spectacular prezis created by our users. We plan to make short Q and A-s with them enlightening how they made those eye catching visuals and what method they followed to tell their stories.
This is all about sharing knowledge and skills, so come, join the conversation! Share your best prezis and explain how you have made them!
So for now here is the story of Lokloq, a white label mobile recruitment application from Amsterdam. Lokloq team has created and uploaded a very nice prezi regarding their business. The story has been built up using awsome custom graphics and it also uses Prezi’s zooming technology perfectly to create a catching visual about finding a new job on the go. We have asked founder Gordon Lokenberg and designer Esther Gons about how they built their prezi. Continue reading the interview!
Gordon, what was your goal with this prezi?
We wanted to do something new and inspiring with our presentation, we got in touch with Esther Gons, visualiser. Esther proposed Prezi and our answer immediately was: “let’s use that!” To present a new technology feature in an “old skool” way, by using drawings. Prezi is the new way of presenting so it all fits together and it also adds a wonderful “wow” effect to your audience. The presentation will not be forgotten by it’s way of presenting only.
We’ll also embed this prezi online, so more people can enjoy the presentation.
Esther, how have you started building this Prezi?
I have thought out a communication/story after having had two presentations of the Lokloq guys of what their application was and what they wanted to tell.
After I had the story I wanted to tell, and the way I would want to present it in my head, I drew the visuals by hand. I really like the (infinite) zoom on Prezi so I vectorized my drawings in order to make that work without losing quality. After scanning, I traced my drawings in Illustrator and saved them as pdf.
How much time did it take to finish?
Once all the drawings where made and vectorized, the actual making of the presentation didn't take long, it took a day for me to play around uploading, placing etc. Than we together (Lokloq team) took a day to go over all the elements and texts. The finalizing and fine tuning together with placing the path took another day or so.
How did it feel to switch to Prezi, a slideless presentation tool?
For me it was so much more natural to work with, because it is the way my mind and visuals works. It is so much easier to tell a story because you can make connections and go back to an important point in a natural way. It shows the overall story and the elements it is build up from, giving oversight and in depth details all in one.
What are your experiences after working with Prezi?
I absolutely love the way it is made easy to move about and place on a non restricted workspace, or so it feels. The usability is simple, the menu tells you exactly what it does and I lost almost no time learning how to make a prezi. Placing, enlarging, making smaller, all works perfectly.
On the other hand with my white drawings I could only choose one or two backgrounds in prezi. I couldnt use transparent background on the drawings so it would change with the background templates. To go and change the pdf's every time I switched would take far to much time though.
Overall it is such a logical way to present and to go with my drawings that I'm going to do more presentations this way. Even would like to make some just to explain some things and wigetizing them would be a great plus I think.
Ingredients:
method: hand drawings converted to .pdf files
tools: scanner, Adobe Illustrator (to convert into pdf) and Prezi of course
production time: 4 days
authors: content - LokLoq, visualization - Esther Gons
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 7:53AM
