Presentation design blog

Any company can invest and get a brand new custom presentation template built, that's the easy part. (And if you're still in that phase of building your template, our guide on creating professional PowerPoint templates can give you so many tips and tricks.) If you're new to working with presentation templates, start with our PowerPoint Templates 101 guide. It covers the fundamentals of building and using branded templates, from slide masters and layouts to maintaining visual

You've probably been here before: someone from the sales team sends over a deck for review and it looks nothing like your set brand. Wrong blue. A font you don't recognize. A chart style that belongs in a 2014 annual report. You ask how it happened, and the answer is always the same: "I just used the template." And that's the real problem with most PowerPoint templates. Sure, they look great when they leave the design team, but then they hit the hands of 10, 20, or 50 differe

Teams in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry are presenting constantly and the presentations themselves are the connective tissue between strategy and execution. That volume is exactly why branded PowerPoint templates matter, and exactly why so many of them can fail. Most branded CPG templates are built to look polished. But "polished" and "on-brand" aren't always the same thing. A template that doesn't reflect the actual visual identity of your products, whether that's the