Pecha Kucha: Design in 20 Slides for 20 Seconds Each

Pecha Kucha: Design in 20 Slides for 20 Seconds Each

I was reading the San Francisco Bay Guardian and came across a posting for the a thing called Pecha Kucha. It got awarded the best 'Hyperintellectual Show and Tell' by the annual Best of the Bay awards that the publication puts on. After reading about it, it reminded me a bit about Share does, but in a slightly different (slide oriented) format. The text below is taken from the Pecha Kucha website:

"Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. (Admittedly, it was also a way to get
more people to visit SuperDeluxe - their then newly opened multimedia event space in Tokyo).

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you'll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global - as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 80 cities across the world."