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Critique: Sciencing on eggshells
A colleague of mine was at the 9th Bird Working Group Meeting, The archaeology of human-bird interactions. He snapped a pic of a poster by Beatrice Demarchi which he thought would interest me. It did....
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Link roundup for July, 2018
Starting off this month with a “Done in one” advice article on poster design by Tullio Rossi. I disagree with a few very minor points (bullet points are not your friend), but overall very good!Hat tip...
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When white space makes you well up
Last Thursday, there was a shooting in the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.On Friday, the Gazetteput out a damn paper, and ran this as its editorial page.Today, we are speechless. This...
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What your graph palette says about you
Errant Science is on form again:I loved this, but I thought it didn’t include options I see surprisingly often, at least for bar graphs. Click to enlarge!Hat tip to Justin Kiggins.
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Critique: The eyes have it – as inspired by xkcd
Adam Stone was kind enough to share this poster from the Third International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition in Istanbul, Turkey. You’ll definitely want to click to enlarge this one!This is the...
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A T-shirt tangent
If I may be permitted a moment of self-indulgence, I would like to share this:This is a T-shirt design I entered into a contest for the International Association of Astacology. And it won!First place:...
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Link roundup for July, 2018
Paul Frankland compares the electronic poster session to the traditional paper poster session at the 11th Federation Of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum of Neuroscience. Here are electronic...
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Critique: Alfree
Andrzej Zielezinski was proud of this poster, made entirely in the freeware package Inkscape. Impressive to me, because I struggled with Inkscape. Click to enlarge!One of the most interesting aspects...
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You have options for numbers (PowerPoint users need not apply)
If you must have a table on your poster, look into what options you have for your numbers. Many fonts have number variants.Proportional numbers have skinny numbers (e.g., 1) and wide numbers (e.g.,...
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Critique and makeover: Bird timing
Today’s poster comes courtesy of contributor Carolyn Bauer. Her work has been featured before, and I’m pleased she liked the experience enough to come back for seconds! Click to enlarge this poster...
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Poster sessions are not singles bars
Today in, “Things I should not have to say.”A poster session is a place for exchange of scientific and technical information between professional adults. It is not a place for you to hit on people for...
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Link roundup for August 2018
Mike Pacchione at Duarte Design talks about how my wife created a powerful professional poster. Mike writes:Let’s summarize so you can apply this to your work, whether it’s a poster, slides or...
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#SICB2019 poster class plan
Besides writing this blog, I am currently the chair of the Student and Postdoctoral Affairs Committee (SPDAC) for the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB).Today was the abstract...
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Posters are like muffins
Posters are like muffins.The top is so much better than the bottom.In muffins, the top is better because of the wonders of caramelization, and because that’s where it’s the easiest to put on...
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Critique: Keep the home fire burning
Today’s contribution is a prize-winning poster from Alexandra Lai! This was presented at the International Aerosol Conference. Click to enlarge!The title bar is particularly well done. It’s an...
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Critique: Enemy myna
Today’s poster comes from Jennifer Pannell. Click to enlarge!Before I get into some details, Jennifer noted that this poster isn’t exactly the way she wanted it to look:I had some problems with the...
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Link roundup for September 2018
Always fascinated by what happens to posters after the conference, particularly posters in the hands of crafty people. Beth Stuart says of her poster quilt:I’m not sure this version is any worse at...
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Critique: Marked frogs
Today’s contributor is A.Z. Andis, who is sharing an award-winning poster presented at Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Click to enlarge!This won the Victor Hutchinson Outstanding...
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Critique: Virtual conferencing
Today’s contribution comes from Parisa Mehran, PhD student at Osaka University. This poster was presented at EUROCALL2018, but talks a lot about what went down at EUROCALL2017. You can read that story...
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Visual density
Your blogger is extra busy this week, and only has time to steal this cartoon from Red Pen / Black Pen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/redpenblackpen/status/1050417709106704384):
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