If you look to the right you’ll see a my half-assed attempt to achieve the same effect using a very interesting Photoshop filter from Andromeda software.

Anyone who has ever attended one of Tufte’s courses is already aware of the contempt he holds for the corporate Powerpoint culture. His new pamphlet is a detailed point-by-point attack on the underlying cognitive style, which he claims “routinely disrupts, dominates, and trivializes content.”

As an alternative, Tufte advocates the use of paper handouts, which actually have a much higher information transfer rate.

His argument is very compelling and I would definitely recommend the pamphlet to anyone who would be inclined to frequently use Powerpoint. I actually sent a copy to one of my clients in the continuing education field.

I’m still making changes to the CSS stylesheet for this site, so you may notice some general bugginess with the appearance of comments and trackback pages for the next day or so.

Cope.

Politics aside, it’s a brilliantly executed cover. You really need to download the PDF to see all the detail (e.g. the screenprinting effect).