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Link roundup for August 2017
This month’s nominee for “Best poster ever” comes from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting, and was created by Julian Resasco, with pictures by Andrew Bell:I got multiple people forwarding...
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Critique: Community influence
Today’s poster was sent in by kindly contributor David Selby. It was created for the useR! conference in Brussels earlier this year. Click to enlarge!The main data visualization gives this poster a...
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Critique: C’est difficile
Contributor Abigail Kelly is the maker of today’s poster. She bemoans that she never gets feedback on them. Well... we aim to please here on the Better Posters blog. Click to enlarge!I hate to say it,...
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Critique: Sand crab summer
Some projects show up as posters at conferences, and then are neatly converted and are published as journal papers soon after. My newest paper (Faulkes 2017)... did not happen that way. The bulk of the...
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Link roundup for September 2017
Best repurposing of a conference poster for the month goes to Wendy Yoder:(For something on this Internet, this blog has not had enough cats.) Hat tip to Colin Purrington.A collection of awesome...
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Critique: Crab parasites
Most of the time, I think my poster aesthetic might be described as Swiss style. That’s the period that saw the creation of Helvetica, for instance. It’s a style that is very spare and very organized,...
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Critique and makeover: Bird sperm
Today’s poster is a contribution from Antje Girndt, who presented this at the European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) 2017 meeting in Groningen, the Netherlands. Click to enlarge! Antje was...
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Link roundup for October 2017
This month’s link round-up begins with a big tutorial on making posters by Desi Quintans, “How I make conference posters.”Excerpt:About my design ethosI think that visual design is just as important as...
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Critique: Life in the cold
Max Showalter had the worst possible poster experience. The thing we all dread. Max wrote:I recently presented this poster at a large conference and of the thousands of people walking by literally no...
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Why academic conference posters rock
Iva Cheung fires a shot across the bow with a long blog post titled, “Why academic conference posters suck.”Ahem. Obviously, I have thoughts on this.Cheung begins by noting that there is not a lot of...
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The perils of PIZI: the “PI Zone of Intimidation”
Justin Kiggins wrote:The zone of PIs chatting with each other between the posters was always super intimidating to me.Science writer Bethany Brookshire agrees.It was super intimidating to me. The only...
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Posters teach visual science communication skills
The National Academy of Sciences of the US regularly sponsors the Sackler symposium on science communication. I’ve had gripes with them in the past. I have another this year : Increase of poster...
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The shut out: when nobody visits your posters
A couple of weeks ago, I featured a poster that had no visitors. This, followed by having to defend poster sessions the next week got me wondering.Just how many people put in the time and effort to...
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Link round-up for November 2017
The link roundup after the massive Neuroscience meeting is always fun. Just ask Shaena Montanari, “How big is that meeting?”Was at the bar tonight in DC and saw poster tubes... I’m not even a...
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Critique: baby heads
Today’s poster comes to us courtesy of Laura Steinmann, presented at the 2018 American Nurses Association conference. Click to enlarge!She writes:I developed a 4 foot by 8 foot poster which is crammed...
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Critique: Badger parasites
Today’s poster comes from Rachel Byrne. Click to enlarge!Rachel was kind enough to respond to my request to share this, which I think is just a delightful work. It demonstrates the old adage that...
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Link round-up for December 2017
One of the problems with free fonts is that they often don’t have special characters that are necessary for proper display of characters from other languages, or symbols.Google Noto is a series of...
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The view from SICB 2018: "The effect of..."
I am in San Francisco for the annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting. At every meeting I go to, I am looking for trends in poster design, either good or bad. This year, I have...
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Critique: Let’s compare
Today’s contribution comes from Richard McGee. Click to enlarge!Before I get to the critique, Richard has a word of warning for us. Here he is presenting his poster. See any differences in the photo...
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Critique: Bugs and beans
Desi Quintans was kind enough to contribute his EcoTAS 2017poster this week. Click to enlarge!This is a sweet poster that I like a lot. It is not crowded; there is plenty of white space to separate...
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