You don’t have time to sit and wait for creativity to strike. Not with an upcoming presentation and a blank slide deck staring back at you.
One of the most frequent problems presenters and designers struggle with is where to start. In our past few blogs we’ve been talking about using AI to help start your presentations. Today we are giving you another way to chase down inspiration for your presentation design: Behance. Behance is a community of creatives whose “main focus is to showcase and discover creative work.” With over 24 million designers, artists, and photographers, it’s a resource every presenter should know about.
So let’s look at 3 ways to pull inspiration from Behance to use in your presentation design: style inspiration, color inspiration, and template inspiration.
1. Style Inspiration
If you don’t have any idea of what you want your slide deck to look like, Behance can help you decide on a style that feels right. Start by thinking about the mood or feelings you want to create with your slide deck. Then, scroll through Behance looking for anything that aligns with that. From the home page, you can click on “Discover” to enter the “Best of Behance” gallery. This page highlights some of the best designs for that day; so it’s always changing.
When you find designs that have the right feeling, click on the “save” button. This will prompt you to create a mood board. I do this often for presentations I’m working on. Then look at your mood board and examine what it is that jumps out at you. Is it playful lines and bright colors? Is it moody, high-contrast photography? When you’ve found a few examples, ask yourself what you can emulate in your slide deck. Can you use stock images or artwork to mimic the same style? Or maybe you want to hire that artist to do some freelance work for your presentation. For example, I love the work of Anastasia Suvorova. She’s a digital illustrator located in Cyprus.
I can contact her directly on the Behance platform with a freelance inquiry, as shown below.
2. Color Palette Inspiration
Another way to pull inspiration from Behance is to use it create your slide deck color palette. Let’s look at one of Suvorova’s pieces of art.
The content of the image, while beautiful, isn’t right for my presentation, but I love the color palette. I’d like to use that as a starting point for my presentation. So I can screen shot the image and upload it to a blank PowerPoint presentation. From inside PowerPoint, I can use the eyedropper tool (find it by using the search bar at the top or by clicking on “fill” for any element) to pull specific colors from Suvorova’s artwork.
3. Template Inspiration
You can also find presentation templates on Behance. Simply type presentation, presentation template, or slide deck in the search bar. You’ll pull back a huge gallery of templates from designers all over the globe. Pay attention to what it is that makes a particular template attractive to you. Also note what elements the designer has used to make the deck feel cohesive and to maintain a good flow from the first to the final slide. You can use their templates to inspire your own slides, or you can query specific designers if you want to hire them for freelance work. But before you hire a freelance designer, check out this slide from Ethos3 Creative Director Kyle Scudder.
If you are looking to hire someone to help with your presentation design, our dedicated team at Ethos3 is ready to help. But better that you hear it from one of our clients, than from me. Here’s what Matt Hull of Hill’s Pet Nutrition said about collaborating with Ethos3, “The designs are always amazing! The team works tirelessly to cater the design to any specific requests we make and they always come through with something truly beautiful!”
Behance Can Save You Time
About 47% of presenters spend more than 8 hours to design their presentations. With Behance, you can cut down on that time by finding your inspiration more quickly. Whether you just need to decide on a style or a color palette or get ideas for a new template, Behance allows you to peruse thousands of projects from millions of designers and artists worldwide, taking advantage of this truly creative community.
You might also want to check out our portfolio to see how we’ve helped clients just like you. Or get in touch with a member of our dedicated design team now.
