meetings and presentations

Yesterday i had my first presentation before a company. Last week i've been hard at work creating a layout and visual style for the magazine i'm making for Lions club Nootdorp-Pijnacker. I went through their briefing with them focussing on these important factors: A magazine to keep and attract sponsors. It shouldn't look like a glossy and it should show the fun of helping, the helped people and and not so much on the club it self. What I felt I needed to do was to create a lower threshold of helping.

I looked to my diaries. They have an extremely low threshold and people always seem to want to look at them. Not to mention they're sincere and most of all human. Something important when creating a magazine about people being helped.

A couple of pages from my last journal

So i went to work, and created something that would have that diary feel, yet be a bit cleaned up. And a bit easier to read. It should be fun, but informative as well. I came up and presented the following:

And guess what? They liked it! Pleasantly surprised they said. It was something they could work with. Of course it wasn't perfect. I need to make the second spread a bit more calm. But the whole style and look was approved. Presentation went well as well. I'm still too fast of a speaker and that really rattles everyone, but knowing that it's my fast speaking that's a big part of my presentation flaws means i can focus on that and fix it.

So it's an exciting week. Now i'll be waiting for text and making some illustrations for the magazine. seeing as we gave each topic a place in the magazine. (i'm at a loss for the proper english here)