Pecha Kucha, Japanese for “chit chat,” is the new communication style of telling a story using exactly 20 slides, for exactly 20 seconds each, for exactly 6 minutes, 40 seconds of presentation time.

It's the bane of students, business people and even the military: If you've ever yawned through a slideshow, you're probably familiar with that dreaded malady of modern times, known as "Death by ...

Twenty slides, twenty seconds each. In 2003, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of the design firm Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo devised a presentation format that deviated from the boring, wordy and ...

Why do it? Pecha Kucha presentations put specific time and image constraints on presentations to help students make concise, oral-visual presentations that are designed to engage the audience (and ...

Pecha kucha-- pronounced pet-shah coot-shah-- is an onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter." But for a small but growing band of international designers, artists and ...

Photo: Yama Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive ...

“Students, please remember to monotonously read every slide word-for-word when you present to the class.” Said no teacher ever. As I prepare for my presentation this week at the Florida Educational ...

Meetings, and the presentations that drive them, are boring, slow and rarely effective. Walk the halls of any Fortune 500 corporation right now and you'll find many rooms occupied by people with ...