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Subtle, gaudy, and bold
Last week, I showed a sweet poster from Desi Quintans. Desi added a great question in his email that I thought deserved its own blog post:I noticed that the posters that did well in real life were made...
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Critique: Sudden stop
Last week, I talked about the difference between gaudy and bold. Stacy Shield provides two examples of going bold in poster design. Click to enlarge!Red, black, and white. Talk about a striking choice...
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Neuroskeptic asks whether conferences are hostile environments.I have never been the target of a harsh question at a conference but one of my colleagues was, a couple of years ago.
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Lab posters are not conference posters
When I wander through department hallways and professor offices, I often see posters like this, from Rottner and colleagues (2017; tweeted by journal here). Click to enlarge!These sort of posters often...
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Nine is fine!
Happy blogiversary to me!It is a little bit crazy for me to think that this blog has been running for nine years straight. And still going (reasonably) strong!It is mostly thanks to my readers and...
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Critique: RNA capping
Today’s contribution comes from Melvin Noé González. It was presented at an RNA meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. Click to enlarge!He writes:Through the years I experimented with various...
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#RSCposter 2018
The hashtag #RSCposter is short for, “Royal Society of Chemistry poster,” and it blew up on science Twitter this week. This was a seriously organized event, with rules as comprehensive as I’ve seen for...
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Critique: Solid state hydrogen
Today’s poster comes to us courtesy of Mi Tian. Click to enlarge!The individual blocks (like “Background” and “Research goals”) are good. I like the colour choices and the “pins” by the headings as...
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Critique: The Capricorn Experiment, plus: Font families
Today’s poster is about the Capricorn Experiment, not to be confused with the 1970s conspiracy movie, Capricorn One:The only conspiracy in the new poster, from Vidhi Bharti at Monash University in...
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Link roundup for March 2018
Animate Science has a “done in one” blog post about how to design a poster. Readers of the blog will find a lot of advise there familiar, but it’s very well done. It’s a much better “single serve” post...
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Critique: Calcretes
Today’s poster is from kindly contributor Jessica von der Meden. Click to enlarge!One of the most distinctive features of this poster is that there’s a title, or perhaps a subtitle, running down the...
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Giving credit to designers
It’s nice when people spread the news of good work:Emily Jones, grad student at University of Dayton, presented a poster on her field work plan for exotic species interactions in a Texas coastal...
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Link roundup for April, 2018
Charlotte Payne, I love you! Well, not in that way. I love you for tweeting about posters in haiku. I think my favourite is this one, on de-extinction:resurrect the lost? can we really right our wrongs...
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Critique: Generic python
Today’s poster is from Leonardo Uieda. This was presented at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting last year. Click to enlarge!Leonardo explains:It’s about a software project I’m working on and...
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Critique: Not following protocol
Today’s poster is courtesy of Catherine Chen. Click to enlarge!The “Background” section is good, because it explains a lot in very little space. I was confused by the “Key Points” until I read the...
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Fighting the fade
I get emails! Yesterday, I got email asking, “How can I stop posters from fading over time?” I’ve touched on this in the blog briefly, but did a little more digging.I remembered from working with...
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Link roundup for May, 2018
Poster season has started, so we have people tweeting the coolest ones. Here is one by Alison Wardlow:She starts with a blank page, then draws the poster while explaining her theory. Bold move. And...
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Coming round the corner
Regular readers will know of my distaste for boxes around things on posters. But that’s doubled for boxes with round corners.There is a “square peg in a round hole” problem. Blocks of text typically...
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Critique: Hansard
Asad Sayeed nominated this poster for a design award. You really need to click to enlarge this one to appreciate it:You can see it in pieces in first author Gavin Abercrombie’s Twitter feed. “Lessons...
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Critique: Future work
Today’s poster is contributed by Bayo Adeniji. Click to enlarge!Bayo wrote (lightly edited):Can you spot the influence of the Better Posters blog in the poster? I hoped to create a poster that was...
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