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Critique: Shape perception
Today’s contribution comes from Arvid Herwig, and is shown with his permission. Click to enlarge!My first reaction to this poster was incredibly positive. It’s an interesting mix of the bold and the...
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#SciFund poster class links
We’re in the thick of the #SciFund poster class now! One of the fun things for me about being involved is that we’re doing stuff that I haven’t covered in this blog.In particular, Anthony Salvagno has...
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Link roundup for June 2015
The self-declared contender for the best poster. Not just academic poster, no.Yes, that tap at the bottom? It works.Coverage of this poster can be found here, here, and here. Probably other places,...
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Critique: Galaxy quest
This week’s poster comes from Chelsea Sharon, and is shown with her kind permission. Click to enlarge!Chelsea writes: I feel like hardly anyone ever has useful design critiques for me, and I’ve...
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Make this your working title for every poster
When you’re laying out your poster, instead of typing in the title you put in your abstract, put this:“No one has to read this crap.”Frame grab from this interview with Ed Yong. Ed has this posted...
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Critique and makeover: Fine lace
Melissa WilsonSayres found this poster by Louise Brousseau and colleagues at this year’s Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution conference:Yes, that’s a bra in the background. The authors made...
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The last 10% of the poster should take more than 10% of your time
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been teaching the #SciFund poster class (compiled material here). It was a learning experience for me as well as the students, because I’ve never used Adobe Illustrator...
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Link roundup for July 2015
This month’s must read is from Bethany Brookshire, a.k.a. the mighty Scicurious, who has been baking cookies for science. She is at the point where she is making posters showing the results of her...
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Archiving posters
I’ve talked before about the long waits in getting projects published. But sometimes, despite waiting, projects never make it past the conference poster stage. I’ve also talked about developing a gut...
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Critique and makeover: Shrimp MoGs (rhymes with “rogues”)
Ladies and gentlemen, as hard as it may be to believe, I was not always the poster design guy you see before you now.Rewind back to late 2007, when I was preparing a poster for the meeting of Society...
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A poster with no conference, or: What I made in that #SciFund poster class
A couple of months back, I was one of the instructors in the #SciFund poster making class. We had decided to require everyone make their posters in Adobe Illustrator, which I have never used before....
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Critique: Rein it in
Opening up reader submissions for this blog is interesting. Sometimes, I make an audible sound when I first see the poster. Sort of a sharp intake of breath. Not quite a gasp. The sot of noise you make...
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Link roundup for August 2015
And this month’s winner for best repurposing of a conference poster goes to Will Mandy:BioMed Central is starting a series on scientific illustrations called, What’s Wrong With This Picture?The...
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Critique and makeover: PrimerMiner
Today’s poster comes from Vasco Elbrecht. Before I get to his poster, Vasco has a whole series of YouTube videos on making posters in InDesign, so you might want to check those out!On to the poster...
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Critique: Quality mitochondria
Today’s poster comes from Arunas Radzvilavicius, and is shown with his kind permission. Click to enlarge!The layout, the colour, the generous space, the use of graphic touches are all things to like on...
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Critique: The social network
Something about this looks familiar. Today’s poster comes from Igor Mikloušić. Click to enlarge!I love this idea. I’ve talked before about how it can be so helpful to base a poster off an existing...
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Link roundup for September 2015
FoxTrot starts off this month’s link roundup...Hat tip to J.D. Wikert.“What’s that font?” Trying to identify a font is one of those tasks that, until recently, was something that in many cases could...
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Posters in the humanties - Plus! Critique: Safety
Today’s poster comes from Joschka Haltaufderheid. Before I get to a critique of the posters, I want to start addressing something Joaschka wrote in the email accompanying the poster:(F)or researchers...
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Critique: CEOs
This week’s contribution is from Christine Haskell, who was nice enough to share. Click to enlarge!Chistine writes:I’ve seen a number of these now and no one reads their poster, it’s used as more of a...
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Is your font in the right decade?
I recently watched a double feature of Village of the Damned (1960) and Children of the Damned (1964). I was completely fascinated by the contrast between the two films. Even though the latter is...
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