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 ...

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 ...

Meetings, and the presentations that drive them, are boring, slow and rarely effective. Walk the halls of any Fortune 500 corporation right now and you'll find many rooms occupied by people with ...

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 ...

On an outdoor patio in Kampala, observers lounge in the near-darkness, watching as an image is projected on a bare white sheet slung between two trees. In Reykjavik, a spellbound audience fills a ...

Why do it? Pecha Kucha presentations put specific time and image constraints on presentations to help students make concise, oral-visual presentations that are designed to engage the audience (and ...

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.