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Link roundup for October 2018
Bergstrom and West think tilting graphs will make people less likely to make mistakes about them. An article in Nature provided this example: Hat tip to Nature News and Comment.• • • • •
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Critique and makeover: Middle Earth sea temperatures
No, I haven’t gone full Tolkien this week. Mediterranean means “Middle of the Earth,” right? This week’s poster about the Mediterranean Sea comes from kindly contributor Francisco Pastor. Click to...
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Blackout: Poster protests travel ban
You are not supposed to take pictures on the poster session floor of the Neuroscience 2018 meeting. Photography, video, filming, tape recording, and all other forms of recording are prohibited during...
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Critique: Digitized manuscripts
This blog mostly uses sciences as examples, so I am always positively delighted when I get contributions from the humanities. Today’s contribution is from Cornelius van Lit. Click to enlarge!One of the...
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Critique: Stimulating brain to lower pain
Today’s poster comes from kindly contributor Emma Taylor, who was generous enough to share her honours project. Click to enlarge!Quick thoughts.Good structure that lets me know I read in rows.Visual...
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Link roundup for November, 2018
This month’s contender for “Best conference poster” was spotted by Greg Fell:Clever!• • • • • If you have a fabric poster, Crystal Lantz can show you how to turn that ol’ science communication into a...
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Critique and makeover: Buffer it out
Today's poster is a contribution from William Elaban. This was not for a conference, but a class. Click to enlarge!Now, I have to apologize to William here, because my first reaction to this poster is...
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Lessons from battle scenes: It’s all about the build-up
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers features a fantastic battle scene: the battle for Helm’s Deep. There’s a lot of reasons why it works. The scale and physicality of it is awesome. But there is one...
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Should we train all students in graphic design?
This blog exists to help solve a problem: that academic conference posters are ugly. But I am under no illusions that this blog is going to fix the problem. So, what would move the dial the quality of...
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Link round-up for December, 2018
It’s a small link round-up for this holiday season, but I have one I want to share, particularly given that last week’s post was musing about how we train students in graphic design.This article talks...
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Critque and ruination: Antibiotic resistance CARD
For the first blog post of the year, allow me to ruin a poster.This week’s contribution came from Sally Min. Click to enlarge!When I first opened the file, I thought, “This is strong.” We have that...
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When posters fail
When a poster fails, it’s usually because it failed early in the design process.Years ago, I showed this poster:It does not matter whether this poster does a lot of the detail work right. It does not...
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Critique: Lending low tech tools
Today’s poster contributor is Scott Johnson. Click to enlarge!This is a great marriage of content and form. The content is about something that is unabashedly “low tech,” so the hand-written, slightly...
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Poster sessions for wheelchair users
I’ve visited the issue of poster accessibility on this blog, but mainly in the context of visual issues, like colour blindness and dyslexia. Of course, these are not the only challenges the people...
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Link round-up for January 2019
Very helpful article about how to pick two typefaces that complement each other,Almost every text-based layout will benefit from more than one typeface. ... With the right pairing, your typography will...
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It’s dangerous to go alone! Getting help from campus offices and staff
Sometimes, we academics believe that we have to do everything ourselves. We have to write, teach, research, analyze, manage, lead, critique, and design.Consequently, people are far too likely to take...
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Top tips for Twitter posters
More academic societies are hosting events on social media. One established example is the Royal Society of Chemistry Twitter Poster Conference 2019 (#RSCPoster), which is heading into its fifth...
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A decade of Better Posters
It has been a decade since I started this blog. It had a slow start, but it has turned into one of the most successful, and rewarding, projects of my career.Thank you.To readers who have shown me that...
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Critique: Virus stamping
Today’s poster comes from contributor Benjamin Wu. Click to enlarge!Ben and I talked about capitalization, particularly in the title. There are three styles: headline / title casing (on left below),...
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Critique: Float like a butterfly, think like a bee
This week’s poster comes from Jeremy Hemberger. I believe that this was presented at last year’s Entomological Society of America meeting. Click to enlarge!Jeremy writes that the graphic design parts...
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