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Link roundup for May 2014
Here are some posters to help you learn about typography, like this one:Biochem Belle peers into the future:Looks for poster tubes boarding flight. How will we spot science conference goers when...
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Can it be too simple? Plus, critique and revision: number processing
Andrea Quintero asked:Can a poster be too boring/simple?Before I answer, I want to distinguish that posters are about both form and content. In the context of this question, I think “simple” is mostly...
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Critique: German chamomile
Today’s contribution comes from Reyna Gutierrez Rivera, and is used with permission. Click to enlarge!On the plus side, the “Finding” box at top works well in providing a clear take-home message. The...
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Critique: Skin, close up
Today’s contribution comes from Edgar Guevara, and is shown with permission. Click to enlarge!The clean layout of this poster makes the reading order so clear that you don’t really need the circled...
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Link roundup for June 2014
Points for honesty. Hat tip to Alan Rice.The Science of Comic Sans is an interesting article on research about type, and how type has, for lack of a better word, “personality.” (Comic Sans is...
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Lessons from Facebook: use more photos
People like photographs. Here’s some evidence from Social Bakers. This graph shows the most popular posts on Facebook: overwhelmingly, they’re photos.That wasn’t because 87% of Facebook posts are...
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Your title is 90% of your poster
I’m riffing off of this post by Randy Olson (click to enlarge):In today’s short attention-spanned world, headlines are about 90% of your communication effort (the text is just a bunch of stuff to...
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Critique: a poster about posters
This was up at this year’s annual American Association of Law Libraries conference: a poster about a poster (click to enlarge).I like the idea of this, but I don’t see it as a terribly well designed...
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Critique: Immune cells
Matteo di Bernardo reached out to me on Twitter to ask for feedback on this poster (click to enlarge):My first and fiercest reaction is, “Ditch the abstract!” Shorter text and a visual may entice...
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Link roundup for July 2014
Posters need not just be paper. Louise Hughes made good use of her 3-D printer. This picture by Sam Barry, with a hat tip to Biochem Belle.More than a few conferences have restrictions about...
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Critique: P7C3
Bhavna Guduguntla asked if I could help a friend with this poster (click to enlarge):A few weeks ago, I mentioned that your title (headline) is 90% of your communication effort. This poster would...
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Critique: Protein simulations
I was asked to look over this poster (click to enlarge). Now, this is a draft poster, so some of the large empty spots are deliberately empty, because the data were not in when the draft was tweeted to...
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Critique: Megafauna
This week’s poster is from Benjamin Seliger, and is used with his permission. Click to enlarge... or perhaps I should say, “megasize.”I would stop at this poster if I saw it at a conference. There is...
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“Only one idea.” Although this post from Terry McGlynn is about giving oral presentations, I think there is something to apply to posters, too:When I gave the talks that (at least I suspect) kicked...
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Critique: Mouse lungs
This week’s poster from reader Irena Feng, and is used with her permission. Click to enlarge! The mouse picture provides an immediate and powerful entry point into the poster. The direction of the...
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Critique: Fetal movements
I often say that when I critique posters on the blog, I am looking at the design of the poster and not the science or technical content of the poster. That is particularly true for this one, submitted...
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Critique: Microsponges
This week’s poster comes from Steven Harris Wibowo, a postgrad student at one of my old stomping grounds, the University of Melbourne, Australia.This poster was shown at the IUPAC World Polymer...
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Link roundup for September 2014
Andrew Maynard included this as an example of a “more radical” poster design in his post, Creating Poster Presentations that Tell Stories:Andrew goes on to write:To me, a poster presentation for me is...
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Critique: Hard problems
Today’s poster come from Ciaran McCreesh and is shown with permission. Click to enlarge!My first reaction was, “Nice work!” I like the colours and the clear organization.Personally, I would try...
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Critique: Affective feedback
Today’s poster comes from Mary Ellen Foster, and is used with her permission. Click to enlarge...I like the main body of the poster a lot. It’s clean, big, uses lots of graphics, and is well-organized....
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