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This month’s contender for “Best conference poster” was spotted by Greg Fell : Clever! • • • • •  If you have a fabric poster, Crystal Lantz can show you how to turn that ol’ science communication into a lovely tote bag ! She’s got detailed instructions, but you’re on…

Always fascinated by what happens to posters after the conference, particularly posters in the hands of crafty people. Beth Stuart says of her poster quilt: I’m not sure this version is any worse at communicating science than the original. Hat tip to Katy Kennedy . • …

This month’s link round-up begins with a big tutorial on making posters by Desi Quintans, “ How I make conference posters .” Excerpt: About my design ethos I think that visual design is just as important as content. I believe that by adapting lessons from other fields…

Best repurposing of a conference poster for the month goes to Wendy Yoder : (For something on this Internet, this blog has not had enough cats.) Hat tip to Colin Purr ington. A collection of awesome seminar posters at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. I may ha…

This month’s nominee for “Best poster ever” comes from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting, and was created by Julian Resasco , with pictures by Andrew Bell : I got multiple people forwarding this to me, and saw many positive comments on Twitter, so this on…

Diana Hernandez has this month’s “best re-use of a poster” nominee: How to deal with awkward questions at a conference , by Dani Rabaiotti. Hat tip to Stephen Heard. Netflix recently premiered an original documentary about design called Abstract: The Art of Design . I…

Neil Cohn wins the “ Best poster reuse " award for this month: Neil writes: Given my last poster, I can't help but design my poster for #CogSci2017 thinking how I'm just going to turn it into pillows afterwards This short (30 second) video shows the same d…

Who else got a Christmas present delivered in poster-styled gift wrapping? Hat tip to Shit Academics Say . Sometimes we have a best poster of the month, but this is probably the first nominee for best poster tube (click to enlarge): Hat tip to Ashley Cambell for disco…

Kaitlyn Werner is the winner of this month’s “Best re-use of a conference poster (beach edition)”: Alex Barnard took a poster into the third dimension with 3-D printing: This is not the first time I’ve shown a poster with a third dimension on this blog , but it’s stil…

How many conference posters turn into published papers? It’s not a trivial question. A huge amount of scientific information is presented at conferences. Scientific conferences should be the places to find the “coming thing.” But in most research fields, the importance…