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Link roundup for October 2015
A feature in The Atlantic asks a big question: Can posters still change the world? I’m unsure posters have ever changed the world, but no matter. Still a great article on the power of the poster...
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Casing a poster
I’m fascinated by the ways people recycle posters. Traditionally, posters are one-shot ephemera, which usually gotten reuse only by decorating department hallways. While fabric posters has some...
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Critique: 3D sound
Today’s poster comes from Erlend Magnus Viggen. Click to enlarge!Erlend had a few notes on this creation.Since the article is about a computational method that we developed, the poster is a flowchart...
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Critique: SAS depot
Today’s poster come from Maxine Davis, which she did for a small conference. Click to enlarge!There are a couple of things that are very successful on this poster. The colour scheme is very cohesive,...
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Link roundup for November 2015
Posters are a visual medium. But not everyone sees equally well, and I’ve written about taking factors like colour blindness or presbyopia into account in design. But I had not considered the...
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Lessons from sex toys: you have to let other people try things out
And I thought I was pushing the envelope when I talked about how lingeriedesign could inform poster design. Well, here we go for the edge of the envelope again...This post was inspired by the article...
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The next big thing... or dead thing?
Lots of poster presentations would benefit from having something that’s hard to show on a static, flat piece of paper. The question becomes how to bring in other elements, like video. People have tried...
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Using bad design to make a good point
Crossposted, with slight edits, from NeuroDojo because I am way behind on grading!Michael Eisen recently took all the journal titles off descriptions of his papers on his lab website. This upset some...
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Lessons from the Miss Universe 2015 pageant: behind many fails lurk bad...
Anyone performing live dreads screwing up. At least in theatre, it’s unlikely to be recorded. But on television, those epic fails will live on for a long time.This weekend, everyone was talking about...
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Link roundup for December 2015
I’ve been tracking hacks for videos on posters for some time. Now, Pieter Torrez is working on another version of interactive posters. Read more about this here.This poster was nominated (informally)...
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The view from the floor of SICB 2016
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a conference, but this week I was at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Portland. These were things that I noticed while looking at the posters....
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Critique: Sea turtles eating trash
This week’s poster is like those “Spot the difference” cartoons that used to appear in the classified ad section of newspapers (dating myself there). Qamar Schuyler sent me a work in progress, so there...
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Critique: Thale cress RNA
Today’s poster is from Andrzej Zielezinski. It was shown at the twentieth annual meeting of the RNA Society last year. Click to enlarge!This poster feels very contemporary and in tune with the times....
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Link roundup for January 2016
We have a new contender for “worst graph ever”: the pie cloud.What... I mean... Why... I... I give up. Shudder. Hat tip to Andrew Gelman.Pieter Torrez has an article on how to create a beautiful...
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Critique: Gull movements
Today’s poster is courtesy of Christine Anderson. This was presented at last year’s World Seabird Conference. Spoiler alert: this poster contains seabirds. Click to enlarge!Christine wrote that she was...
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Critique: Autotune
This week’s poster from Chris Cummins (used with permission) is not about correcting pop stars who cannot sing on key. This was presented at the computer science conference HiPEAC 2016. Click to...
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Present your geology poster online!
Signal boost! The American Geophysical Union just tweeted out a link to a virtual poster competition for undergraduates. You have to sign up my 3 March 2016 for the spring round. Anyone who wants...
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Critique: Manta ray thoughts
This week’s contribution comes from Kenneth Chin. Click to enlarge!Let me get to a couple of good things before moving to the ways it could be improved. First, the title is big and cannot be missed. If...
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Link roundup for February 2016
I often use highways signs as metaphors for conference posters. This article describes the typeface selection for highways signs in the United States, and the decision to return to an older (possibly...
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Lucky seven!
This blog began seven years ago today. And it’s still one of my favourite projects. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do writing it.Picture by Lee Bryan on Flickr; used under a Creative Commons...
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