# High-impact graphic design field notes

> A graphic design presentation combining fluorescent statement slides, a radial test-card illustration, giant numerals over an audience photograph, textile product images, and full-bleed personal photographs.

- Kind: Slides
- Live deck: https://speakerdeck.com/uxyall/aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemporary-graphic-design-ux-yall-2022
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/agent.txt
- Authorship: Not stated
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: not stated
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Decks; fluorescent, bold typography, industrial, full-bleed photography, retro graphics, high contrast, oversized type
- Slides: 260
- Preview: a flip-through of inspected screenshots; open the live work to experience its motion and interactions.
- Shared by UX Y'all in Website: https://speakerdeck.com/uxyall/aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemporary-graphic-design-ux-yall-2022
- Prompt fidelity: Unavailable in this entry. The recreation brief is written by Reference.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this deck

This is a visual reference. No original creator prompt is available. The following brief was written by Reference after inspecting the work.

Build a presentation around two saturated accent colors and one extremely heavy uppercase type style, keeping small metadata blocks in consistent positions. Alternate broad, left-aligned statement slides with full-bleed photographs and centered object images to vary density without losing coherence. Use oversized numerals over one photograph and geometric radial linework for a special interstitial; replace the existing subject matter, badges, products, and personal imagery with material relevant to the new presentation.

1. Open the live work or source and inspect the frame images below.
2. Adapt its layout, hierarchy, palette, and interaction patterns to the user's own content and brand.
3. Compare the result against the reference. Use your own assets and credit the original creator.

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the captured walkthrough frames, not by the creator.

A graphic-design presentation combining bold typographic slides, illustrated artwork, and photographs.

- Color: Vivid lime green and orange-red with black, dark green, cream, and muted photographic colors.
- Type: Large, heavy, condensed geometric uppercase lettering, often in contrasting colors against flat backgrounds.
- Framing: A montage of rectangular slide designs and images. Several use oversized centered headlines or circular emblems; others feature photographs or a vertically arranged illustration.
- Structure: Alternating presentation graphics, including a technical-difficulties card, headline slides, a badge and line-art illustration, abstract artwork, and photographs.

Storyboard of the slides: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/storyboard.webp

- Slide 1: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f1.webp
- Slide 33: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f2.webp
- Slide 66: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f3.webp
- Slide 98: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f4.webp
- Slide 131: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f5.webp
- Slide 163: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f6.webp
- Slide 195: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f7.webp
- Slide 228: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f8.webp
- Slide 260: https://meetreference.com/media/ref-aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemp-d17b/f9.webp

## Links

- View deck: https://speakerdeck.com/uxyall/aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemporary-graphic-design-ux-yall-2022
- Original post: https://speakerdeck.com/uxyall/aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemporary-graphic-design-ux-yall-2022
- Source and design credit: https://speakerdeck.com/uxyall/aaron-draplin-an-update-from-the-front-lines-of-contemporary-graphic-design-ux-yall-2022