Not exactly Don Draper

A small selection of slides from CannesLions 2011 (which is a festival for 'creative' people, i.e. the advertising and marketing industry).

This presenter just doesn't seem to have cared at all. Did they make this at 0300 while jetlagged?

Next up a presenter does some sort of wheel thing with colors and stuff.

I don't have any idea what's happening here. I think it's some sort of story.

And finally, someone saw some seaweed on the beach at Cannes.

Source: 100+ Beautiful Slides from CannesLions '11

The Fog of War

No pithy comment here. This one's serious. Here's a US military slide mentioned in the New York Times article We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint:

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”

Hat tip: tomcrowley.