Tag Archives: Graphics Library
ADA Map Symbols – Get all 130+
Was on the road last week at the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth and built over 2k new symbols for you to download so warm up your hard drives to download them this week. Here are the ADA ones.
DK
Field Artillery Map Symbols Here – All 355 of Them!
As part of the Beta project that we are running with the Army’s Combined Arms Center and the USMC Training and Education Command I will be cranking out military graphics library packages nearly every day for the next 30 days. I hope to average +100 new images a day. Today’s installment is 355 Field Artillery Map Symbols.
Enjoy,
DK
The Science behind MPM – The Picture Superiority Effect
Visual communications are here to stay! Don’t take my word for it, here is the scientific data.
- People will remember 10% of what you say to them three days later.
- If you communicate primarily with visuals (such as PowerPoint slides), your audience will remember 35% of what you show them. That is three times as much.
- If you use both visuals and spoken, they will remember 65% of what you have said/shown them. That is over six times as much as just spoken.
Or so asserts one of my favorite brain researchers, Dr. John Medina.
The underlying reason behind this astounding set of statistics is that human being’s dominant sense is visual and it trumps all other senses.
Our earliest recorded forms of communications were cave drawings.
As children, vision is our primary sense and spoken language develops later.
All of this wraps up into a theory called the Picture Superiority Effect.
What is the Picture Superiority Effect and How Does MPM Use It?
Simply put, the Picture Superiority Effect is the scientific explanation for why a picture is worth ten thousand words.
For a little over 40 years, scientists have acknowledged that we encode memory “verbally” AND “visually”. This dual-coding theory says that people, when they are processing information (such as your presentation) break that information up and encode it in the two different stores of Visual and Verbal.
Recent cognitive neuroscience suggests that the visual memory storage is the dominant one. (Note: all of you cognitive neuroscientists out there please excuse this oversimplification). This because it is easier for people to recall visual information. Period
So what does this all have to do with the Modern Presentation Method? Well, everything really. One of the underlying principles of MPM is that visual communication is here to stay. And that if a presenter wants to be truly effective they need to tap into visual communication.
We help you tap into it in a number of ways.
Removing the Visual Design Barrier
First, through the use of super templates, design guides, and slide starters MPM absolves the presenter of the need to have basic design skills. Take this example, the Decision Briefing Infographic. It’s designed to be printed out on 11×17 paper.
Now, people who natively speak and read Indo-European languages scan across any visual in a Z-pattern. And so this particular Modern Presentation Method is designed to take advantage of this fact.
This notion of absolving the presenter from needing to understand basic design principles is sprinkled throughout the MPM templates. Background colors and text are color coordinated to be visually appealing and also to contrast where important information needs to pop. Slide layouts take advantage of any of a wide variety of design principles such as the Rule of Thirds.
Removing the Graphics Barrier
Next, MPM removes the graphics barrier. By putting several thousand high-quality organizationally focused graphics at the presenter’s fingertips, we remove the need to search for and chose quality graphics.
Text First, Visuals Second
Last, MPM takes advantage of most people native communications strength, the ability to write. By having presenters put their story together in textual format first, we use that native ability. Then once the 80% textual story is in place, we use the templates and graphics library to quickly move the presenter through the visual stage of the build process.
Summary
So that’s it. People’s dominant sense is vision and the Picture Superiority Effect proves this. MPM helps the presenter take advantage of the Picture Superiority Effect by removing the Visual Design and Graphics barriers, and by focusing their story building skills in Text First.
That’s all, thanks for tuning in.
DK
MRAP Pictures!
Here are some MRAP Pictures. Just download the .zip file. (It’s a big file – 150M – so let me know if you are having trouble downloading it and I’ll break it up into multiple, smaller .zip files)
For each picture there are the following versions.
The Original
A Black & White Version
An Oil Painting Version
And a Sketch Version
Blackhawk Icons, Get Your Blackhawk Icons Here
Here you go, some in Grey, Black, and White with no backgrounds.
Just download the .zip file here.
DK
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