PowerPoint design
We know communicating through effective visuals is important, but when you’re faced with a blank slide, where do you start? BrightCarbon’s graphic design experts have come to your rescue, sharing their expertise on PowerPoint design whether you’re a pro, or just looking for some quick hacks.
Read on to find an entire library of hacks, suggestions, and inspiration on all things PowerPoint design. From everything you need to know about typography, to how hierarchy affects the way you lay your slides out, or just some great tips on adding some easy design touches to make your presentations pop, it’s all here.

Better job interview presentations
More and more employers are asking prospective employees to produce a presentation as part of the interview process. But what makes a good job interview presentation? What should you cover? What are your interviewers looking for? Follow along with this mini-course to make a compelling presentation that will turn heads and help you stand out from the rest.
Editable CV and resume templates
Looks aren’t everything, but a well-formatted, thoughtfully designed CV or resume can help draw prospective employers to your application and get to the highlights faster. The trouble is a lot of the free templates online are PDFs, and although you can edit them, they don’t have full editability until you…
Data visualization library
Data visualization is an incredibly useful storytelling tool. By using graphics and visuals to bring your data to life you can make your content so much more digestible and actionable that just be presenting a lot of numbers. Browse our library of data visualizations and have a go yourself from the prompts provided.
Christmas quiz template
It's Quiz-mas! Download our free Christmas quiz PowerPoint template for festive fun and fiendishly difficult quiz questions!
BrightSlide
Created for PC users by PowerPoint experts the BrightSlide add-in will help you create, polish, and edit presentations at speed. It draws on industry-standard shortcuts to boost your workflow and provides amazing, extra functionality PowerPoint users have only dreamed of. And it’s all yours, for free!…
Color tool for PowerPoint
Often, when working in PowerPoint it can be really hard to quickly check what theme colors are programmed into the PowerPoint presentation you're using - especially if they use different templates. It can also be tricky to have your custom colors easily accessible. Download our PowerPoint color tool and paste into your presentations to check your theme colours and pre-fill your custom colors.
Editable PowerPoint maps
A globe-trotting collection of editable PowerPoint maps, featuring a PowerPoint world map, PowerPoint country map, and PowerPoint US state map, which you can use to take your audience on an incredible journey
Awesome presentation toolkit
An awesome presentation toolkit, free to download, which contains PowerPoint visuals, iconography, slide templates, and other graphics to kick-start your next presentation.
Awesome PowerPoint design tricks
We recently ran a training seminar showing off some of the awesome tricks that can be achieved in PowerPoint. If you weren't able to attend the show, but want to be more awesome in PowerPoint, you are in luck! We have put together a set of videos sharing our favourite tricks from the session.
PowerPoint training – free online course
One of the things people find difficult about creating visual PowerPoint slides is knowing how to replace their bullet points with visuals and animations. To help people create visual slides, we've put together a four week set of quick PowerPoint tutorials. Sign up for the course here and learn how to visualise and animate your ideas in PowerPoint.
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