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Chemistry is magic!
Neil Withers spotted this poster on Reddit:One of my friends entrusted my group and I to print his poster for a conference...he chose poorly.You can click to enlarge...I’m going to go out on a limb...
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Usable space
I like using all the space available to me on my posters. Big posters are easy to read and can get more attention. At a recent conference, the organizers told the presenters that the poster boards were...
View ArticleAn augmented reality poster
I’ve talked about various ways to make posters more interactive, from using QR codes to showing video. This is another step in making posters more dynamic: using augmented reality.Jump to the 4 minute...
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The Singular Scientist looks at QR codes.It’s a best of list, because people love lists. This one is 20 data visualization tools.
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New type
I am a sucker for sans serif type on posters. But sometimes, it seems that the choices are somewhat limited for Windows users.For a long time, Arial was the default sans serif in Windows. Arial is...
View ArticleDynamic posters preview
I wish I could go to this year’s Neuroscience meeting, but cannot, so I will miss the debut of “dynamic posters.” But a preview is available here, where we get a better idea of what this involves.The...
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Worst of the worst?
Worst venue?Overheard at a conference over summer: a poster session at another institution that decided to hold a poster session outdoors. in the height of August.Apart from uncomfortable heat,...
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American Physiological Society poster course
The American Physiological Society has decided to provide a course on poster-making. I’m pleased to see at least one scientific society taking a more active interest in poster presentations! The text...
View ArticleThe Better Posters workshop
Although I’ve been doing this blog for a few years now, I had never given a presentation or workshop trying to distill some of the best tips and ideas until this week. I gave two workshops at my...
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Link roundup for October 2012
NeuroscienceIt’s the month of Neuroscience, the biggest collection of conference posters maybe anywhere. Lots of people offered advice for presenting posters at that conference, which has the advantage...
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Care to sit down?
At big conferences, you can be on your feet all day. There’s a lot of walking from room to room, and poster sessions are generally several hours long. Even the healthiest and heartiest can start to...
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Hang time
This is a guest post from reader Mark Gurwell, used with his permission.Are there some general guidelines that one should consider depending on the length of time a poster will be hung?I ask this...
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Lessons from Tumblr
If you look around social media, particularly Tumblr and Facebook, you’ll see a lot of things like this:This example is from We are the 99 percent Tumblr, which was created as part of the Occupy...
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Link roundup for November 2012
Bluegrass Blue Crab has a nice post on essential features of a good map.There is a lot of good advice in this collection of posters by annoyed designers. If you can use a little reverse psychology. Hat...
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Giving posters to schools
One of the issues with conference posters is that they are usually one-shot deals.You design the poster. You print the poster. You have the poster up for a few hours or days at the conference. And......
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Critique: Debris discs
Today’s poster is from Sara Barber from the University of Oklahoma, and is used with her permission. Click the image below to enlarge it!This is a clean design, so the comments are fairly subtle.Having...
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Critique: Infrared
Today’s poster was submitted by Jessica Moore, who is manager of Center of Excellence in Nanomedicine at the University of California, San Diego. There is way too much stuff going on around the title....
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Link roundup for December 2012
Wired has a collection of the best scientific figures of the year, in their estimation. I think the authors may be more impressed by the volume of information in these figures than by their design.I...
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Critique: Privacy
Today’s contribution comes from Dave Wilson at the University of Arizona, and is used with his permission. It was presented at the International Conference on Information Systems in Orlando as a...
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Review: Writing in the Biological Sciences
I was sent a copy of Angelika Hoffmann’s new book, Writing in the Biological Sciences, by the publisher, unbidden. It’s been long enough that I initially forgot I wrote almost the same thing a couple...
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