Riginica

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 enlarge! Francisco is a repeat customer of this blog. One of his earlier…

Posters are like muffins. The top is so much better than the bottom. In muffins, the top is better because of the wonders of caramelization , and because that’s where it’s the easiest to put on ingredients like chocolate chips, glaze, fruit peeling, cream cheese, or w…

More and more academic projects are collaborative . This means more contributors, and more authors to list on posters. I’ve been thinking about how long author lists might be best displayed on posters, and have a few attempts here. You can click to enlarge any picture!…

There are two good choices for placing objects on a page. You can separate them. Or you can overlap them. But it’s a bad option is to have two objects almost touching... Or just barely touching. Of course, it can be worse. Having sharp edges and round edges almost to…

Lisa Rost has a nice overview of colour tools to help with data visualizations. Some have appeared on the blog before, but this is a great summary. MarkMaker bills itself as an automated logo designer (backstory here ). It’s fun to look at, but I was unimpressed with…