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Bad poster bingo
Play it at your next conference! Click to enlarge.At most conferences, the game is not whether you can get a bingo, it’s whether you can do it on a single poster...External linksBad presentation bingo
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Invitating interaction
Today’s poster comes from Giovanni Dall’Olio. Click to enlarge...Before I get to the critique and makeover, I want to point out the cool thing that Giovanni did: he invited interaction. Giovanni...
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Archiving posters using figshare
Conference posters have traditionally been ephemera. There have been a few websites that have tried to become a repository for posters, but none have attracted much attention.figshare might be...
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Critique and makeover: Sedentary breaks
Today’s poster comes from Travis Saunders, who blogs at at Obesity Panacea, and is used with his permission. Click to enlarge...I’ve tried to focus on visual elements, while minimizing text....
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Lessons from Doctor Who DVDs
Crossposted from NeuroDojo, where I’m doing a series of essays in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who.I didn’t start watching Doctor Who at the beginning. I was part of the early wave...
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Link roundup for October 2013
Brett Favaro shared this on Twitter: I’ve talked about fabric posters before, but Labhacks might, just might, have the best fabric poster yet. They say it’s printed on Spoonflower performance knit, and...
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Earlier this year, I chatted with Morgan from Breaking Bio during Science Online 2013. That interview never made it to air, because it was a little too short. I contacted Morgan and pleaded with them...
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Critique and makeover: Captain Canuck
This time, the makeover isn’t by me...Regular readers know I am always looking for inspiration from comics, so I loved this description of the design process of the new Captain Canuck costume (above)...
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I teach a technical writing class in which I ask students to create posters. I give the students some instruction and and good ideas for poster layout. Generally, their work is as good or better than...
View ArticleDynamic posters at Neuroscience 2013
As one of, if not the, biggest scientific meeting and poster presentation venue in the world, the Neuroscience meeting has every incentive to be at the forefront of developing new ways to give posters....
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Link roundup for November 2013
I’ve featured posters from Michael Barton here and here. Here’s another great description of his process, and the result is this nice poster he did last year. (Hat tip to Sam Evans.)ScientifFig claims...
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Identifying poster authors: conference organizers, ask for ORCIDs!
I’m lucky. I have an unusual name. The only other Faulkes I know in biology is Chris Faulkes, who does research on mole rats. While I paid the price for having an unusual name in elementary school, I...
View ArticleThe one inch rule
One of the most common problems on posters is that things are too close together, which creates the impression of clutter. Let me propose an easy to remember rule for you.Every element on the poster...
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Link roundup for December 2013
“Fonts have feelings too” is a nice look at typography by Mikael Cho (hat tip to Julie Dirksen). I am indebted for it sharing this visual on text legibility, originally from here:Namnezia has a nice...
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New Year’s Resolution: No more Comic Sans!
Regular readers know that I love comics, but hate Comic Sans. A lot of academics use it because they want something that looks handwritten, and they don’t have anything else on their computer that...
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Go now! Kidd's book a wonderful intro
Doctor Who writer Terrance Dicks said that when he wanted to do research on a subject for a script, he would head to the library, and go straight to the kid’s section. Books for kids or young adults,...
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Hung low
Lots of people take pictures of themselves presenting their poster. Like Zoe Amber, who tweeted this picture from the fiftieth anniversary Annual Discussion Meeting of the Quaternary Research...
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Critique: Behaviour 2013 conference poster competition winner
This poster won the competition at the Behaviour 2013 meeting back in August. (Yes, cleaning out some draft posts...) Poster competitions are usually judged on a mix of science and graphics, and I am...
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Critweets: Neuroscience 2013
Here is another reason that all conferences should all have:When your conference has a Twitter hashtag, it makes it easy for people to tweet pictures of themselves standing next to their poster. And...
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