Journal lightning talk · 3-minute thesis · short pitch.
- Up to 8 slides · 5 min
- Figures placed & formatted
- University template applied
- Editable
.pptx+.pdf
Your committee will not read forty cluttered slides. We format defence-ready decks — clean layouts, readable typography, a consistent colour system, and your figures placed and aligned so the result reads at a glance. Editable .pptx, in your university template.
.potx, .thmx, or a single slide. We format against it. No template? We set up a discreet system in your department's colours, restrained enough to pass any committee.
Master slides, layouts, colour palette, departmental crest and footer rules configured correctly — so every slide is consistent and the deck reads as one piece, committee-ready.
A 5-minute lightning talk and a 45-minute defence carry different slide counts and densities. We set the deck to the right length and keep each slide to a legible amount — no wall of text, no overflow.
Bring your charts and tables as they are. We size them, align them to the grid, match their colours to the deck and caption them so they read cleanly — we format your figures, we don't re-make your data.
Send your manuscript / chapter, the slot length, the audience, and any university template. A 20-minute call (free) to scope the deck.
We set up your university template — master slides, colour palette, type styles, footer and crest — and map your content onto clean, consistent layouts. Approve the look, and we format the full deck.
Every slide formatted to the template — layout, typography, colour, alignment — with your figures placed and polished. Daily updates by email; a draft halfway through for early feedback.
Presenting at a journal or society — Elsevier, Springer Nature, IEEE, ACM, ACL? We deliver in the venue's house style: aspect ratio, font stack, logo placement, embargo conventions. Send the speaker pack and we match it.
Journal lightning talk · 3-minute thesis · short pitch.
.pptx + .pdfPhD / MPhil viva, full defence. The most common slab.
Plenary, keynote, conference paper. Designed for the bigger stage.
A0 / A1 conference poster, print-ready.
Yes — and we prefer to. Send the .potx / .thmx, or even a single slide, and we format against it: master slides, layouts, colour palette, departmental crest, footer rules. If your university doesn't publish a template, we set up a discreet system in your department's colours, restrained enough to pass any committee.
Fewer than you think. A 30-minute defence is comfortable at 20–25 slides if one of them is a figure that holds the room for two minutes. A 45-minute defence sits around 30–35. We design backwards from your slot, not forwards from your chapters.
Yes — that's most of what we do. Send your existing slides and we reformat them to a consistent standard: your university template applied, typography and colour harmonised, layouts cleaned up and aligned, and your figures placed and polished. Your content and argument stay yours; we format, we don't rewrite.
No. We format — layout, typography, colour, alignment and template — not content. Your headings, text and findings stay exactly as you wrote them; we make them read cleanly on screen. We don't write narrative outlines or speaker notes.
We place and format them — sized correctly, aligned to the grid, recoloured to match the deck and captioned for legibility. We work with the charts you provide; we don't rebuild them from raw data or re-run your analysis. Send the highest-resolution version you have and we'll make it read cleanly on screen.
The Defence package includes two free revisions in the week before defence. Most last-minute changes — re-ordering two slides, swapping a figure, tightening the takeaway — fit inside that window. Larger structural rewrites are quoted separately, but we will always try to absorb them.
Yes. Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, and IAST transliteration all handled. We pick a script-appropriate display face (Mukta, Hind, Catamaran, Noto Serif Devanagari) and pair it with our usual sans for the chrome. Bilingual decks (English headlines, regional body) are common.
We hand off. Posters are delivered print-ready (300 dpi, CMYK, bleed marks) with an InDesign source file. We will recommend a printer in your city, brief them on paper stock, and review the proof — but the final transaction is yours.
Defence, viva, lightning, plenary, poster. Formatted to your university template — master slides, layout, typography and colour, your figures placed and polished. Editable .pptx, with a rehearsal call before the defence.
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