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Critique: Rhizosphere round-up
Today's contribution comes from Larry York, and is used with his permission. Click to enlarge!Larry’s own review of this poster:There is too much text on the bottom of my poster, but the overall idea...
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Critique and makeover: Landfill bacteria
Today’s contribution comes from Patric Chua, who gave me permission to post this. Click to enlarge!Patric had this to say:Better Posters has been my guide for poster designs (Aw, thanks! - ZF), and...
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Link round-up for July 2016
Here’s the level of “attention to detail” that anyone who designs should aspire to:This makeover from Rian Hughes is shown here. His website is well worth checking out. Hat tip to John Wick.Titles...
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New Nature article on posters
Nature magazine has a feature on posters up today. It features my co-instructor in the #SciFund Challenge poster class, Anthony Salvango.Nature wants you to tweet your #PosterWins and #PosterFails!...
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Lurkers and claques
Most of the readers of this blog are lurkers. They read, but they don’t feel obliged to make a comment, or send me a tweet, or email, or anything else. And that’s fine. I’m a lurker in many online...
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Scott McCloud’s “Big triangle” and poster design
Posters are a visual medium. But not everything is equally visual. A picture of a real object is very visual, and the best thing to have on a poster. A scatter plot is less visual. And text is the...
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Link roundup for August, 2016
Design is about making decisions. Here’s a good look at how different decisions about the same numbers can give you dramatically different maps:Hat tip to Justin Kiggins.One of the problems with a...
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Critique: Neutrino topology
Physics is not the best represented academic field on this blog, so I was pleased to get this submission from Paola Ferrario, who was kind enough to share this with readers of the blog. Click to...
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Reading gravity
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ. I recently learned that something I’ve called “the Cosmo principle” on this blog is an actual thing that proper designers talk about, except they have a...
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Critique: Dynamic relationships (of amino acids)
Inna Nikonorova is today’s kindly contributor, who let me share this on the blog. Click to enlarge!The poster is clear and readable, but I do think it could be improved.I like that the Introduction...
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Avoid the tenuous touch
There are two good choices for placing objects on a page. You can separate them.Or you can overlap them.But it’s a bad option is to have two objects almost touching...Or just barely touching.Of course,...
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Link roundup for September 2016
Quote of the month:A conference poster should be readable in 3 minutes, from 3 metres away, after 3 beers. The tweet is from Torsten Seemann, but It think he’s quoting Matthew Wakefield.Michael Skvarla...
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Critique: On spec(trographic)
Today’s contribution come from Michael Young. This will be shown at this year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems conference, but he’s given me permission to show you as preview. Click to...
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Critique: Cubic slip-systems
Today’s poster is from Danyel Cavasoz. Now, although I live in a region with a large Hispanic population, my Spanish is pretty bad. But based on the arXiv notice in his poster, I am reasonably...
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Critique: Catching a DRAGON
Today’s poster is from Athanasios Psaltis, in my old stomping grounds in in Canada (McMaster University, to be exact). This poster was shown at a school on “Origin of nuclei in the universe,” and...
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Link roundup for October 2016
Contrast matters, and web page designers are starting to forget that. Kevin Marks delves into how grey text is becoming so prominent on the web. Marks notes something I’ve talked about before: the...
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Critique: Catalyst judging
Today’s contributor is Luca Biasolo, who gave me permission to show this:This poster has more ambition and design sense than probably 90% of the posters I see at conferences.I like that Luca committed...
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Critique: Establishing axons
Today’s contribution was tweeted out by Christopher Leterrier. Click to enlarge!This poster promptly attracted compliments, and Christopher asked for my take.This poster has one obstacle standing...
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Critique: Making enzymes
Today’s contribution come from Ian Haydon, who is kind enough to share it with us. Click to enlarge!Ian writes:The attached poster won best in show at my departmental retreat last week. I think why...
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Link roundup for November 2016
The posters up for the National Science Foundation’s annual Vizzie awards make for an interesting gallery. Some nice work there! Vote for your favourite!Every panel in the figure above shows the same...
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