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Your poster text is too damn small!
One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk about posters is, “What’s a minimum point size?” I got it a few weeks ago when I was speaking at the Plant Biology meeting. If you’re a regular...
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The Word Lab Session on poster design
This week!WordLab presents “10 simples rules for designing an academic poster.” with Sydelle de Souza. It’s free to attend this Zoom meeting, but you do need to sign up here to get an invite and the...
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Link round-up for August 2020
Modesta Abugu and Caroline Dowling have a nice article describing their experiences with online poster sessions at the Plant Biology 2020 conference. Their messages:Take it seriously. It’s easier...
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Critique: The great cleave
I love seeing how people’s approaches to posters change over time. I am tickled we have a trio of posters from Nadav Ben-Assa. Click any of them to enlarge!This first iteration is a clean,...
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blog post with conference poster advice
A recent episode of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible looked at the rise of grocery store brands, and spent a lot of time examining generic brands.The example pictured is from No Name line of products...
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BioRender announces PosterRender
“Darn it, I don’t have a blog post lined up this week. What am I going to write about...?”[Checks Twitter]psst @DoctorZen have you seen!?[Sees]“Well, that’s this week’s blog post sorted.” BioRender...
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Link round-up for September, 2020
SciMobi is a new service for delivering poster-like content online. (I say poster like, because if it’s not on paper, is really it a poster?) Phil Greenhalgh has a pair of posts relevant to our...
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Journals need to set a better example for posters
I recently ran across a figure in a journal (and a journal I respect) that made me look sideways at it. I am suspicious of composite, multi-panel figures at the best of times. But oh boy.First, this...
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Picking up a poster
A couple of years ago, I was out of my usual surrounds and up in the northeast of the US. I had a conference coming up, and no access to the department’s printing services. So I have a poster printed...
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Critique: Dawn of the mammals
This infographic by Nuria Melisa Morales García could just as easily go onto a poster board at a conference. Click to enlarge!The highlight of this is clearly the skill of rendering. I love the mammal...
View ArticleSubmit your scientific graphics to Better Posters!
I find myself in the embarassing position of having no blog post about this week. Unsurprisingly, the number of poster submissions for review hitting the inbox has been down. It’s been a long, hard...
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Link round-up for October, 2020
The 29th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics poster session looked like it came from Second Life:Apparently nobody has heard that Second Life is a very niche community these...
View ArticleOne year down, three months to go
It's been a year since I made a flurry of last minute changes to the Better Posters manuscript and sent it to the editor. I won’t pretend it hasn’t been a frustrating year.The book, as I’ve mentioned,...
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Critique: Tungsten carbide, part 1
I thank Stephen Herd for taking pity on me after I complained about lack of material and sharing some of his old posters. Click to enlarge!The poster was designed to print on A0 paper (for those in...
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Critique: Tungsten carbide, part 2
This week, more from Stephen Herd! If you haven’t seen his first effort, go back and have a peek before seeing how he pushed the envelope even further. Click to enlarge!Stephen has this to say about...
View ArticleThe AGU’s ePoster format
For a couple of years, the American Geophysical Union has had a digital poster format that it chose to call eLighning. Here’s a introductory video from 2017:The provider for this service is iPosters....
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Better Posters available from major bookstores Amazon, BN, Indigo, more!
Y’all.The Better Posters book is up on Amazon! And Barnes & Noble! And for my fellow Canadiana, on Indigo!And ready for pre-order! (These are not endorsements. Other bookstores are available and I...
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Link roundup for November 2020
One of the advantages of an online conference is that you can more readily measure what is working and what is not. Clicks, attendance, and visits are easily measured. Lucas Braun does some analysis of...
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Salmon slammin’
Felix Bernoully responded to my request for scientific graphics with a cartoon that was used in a press release. The first author of the paper drafted a single-panel cartoon using material from...
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Sports graphics, or: A moment of American football
Alex Flores recommended this video on every NFL score ever. It’s good that he recommended it, because as a huge anti-fan of American football, I never would have stumbled across it myself.If you don’t...
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