I always wondered what went on there.
$380 x 500 people, that’s $190,000! I’ll have to remember to ask for more money next time I’m asked to speak for a commercial organization.
I always wondered what went on there.
$380 x 500 people, that’s $190,000! I’ll have to remember to ask for more money next time I’m asked to speak for a commercial organization.
I enjoyed the course 15 years ago, although it was already clear this was print, not computing.
But it does sound like it hadn’t evolved, too bad.
Indeed, but the books for ideas: I had 2 sets so I had some to loan to coworkers.
It sounds like a lot of money, but if they had biscuits for morning tea that would have chewed up some of the profits.
Hi, my $.02.
I attended Tufte’s presentation a few years ago and for the most part enjoyed it. I also really enjoyed his books, all except the most recent one, “Beautiful Evidence”, because he rants a little too much against PowerPoint and is to extreme for my tastes and it has too much self promotion (here is my dog!, here is my artwork!, etc.). The presentation wasn’t too interactive, but I found Tufte very approachable in person afterward.
I actually came to understand the rants about PowerPoint a few days ago when I downloaded a couple of large presentations a few days agov
Without the dialoge they are very close to useless–a bit worse than watching an ad with the sound turned off.
Wait – those sound like good presentations to me. A presentation that I can download and read like a book is not a presentation I want to sit through. I want to listen to the speaker and have it complement his/her words, not duplicate them.
Faculty and grad students pay just $200, including 4 books. It’s a steal (IMO of course; I attended last week at his NY studio). True, he has strong opinions about presentation. What I learned was a) the importance of turning careful analysis into compelling visual stories and b) one person’s well-developed, if idiosyncratic, approach that task.
I completely agree with Robert K. The bit with Galilei’s book was just appalling, since the auditorium (here in NYC it was at the Hammerstein Ballroom) was huge and the book was really pretty small. The stuff with sculpture just seemed self-indulgent, as did the photos of his art collection at his Connecticut estate.
I left at the lunch break, happy to have my books, happier still to not have to listen to him for another three hours.