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Today’s poster is about the Capricorn Experiment, not to be confused with the 1970s conspiracy movie, Capricorn One : The only conspiracy in the new poster, from Vidhi Bharti at Monash University in Melbourne, is the justification for “Capricorn”. It’s supposed to be a…

Last week , I showed a sweet poster from Desi Quintans . Desi added a great question in his email that I thought deserved its own blog post: I noticed that the posters that did well in real life were made with strong, almost gaudy colours. In particular, the ones wit…

Most of the time, I think my poster aesthetic might be described as Swiss style. That’s the period that saw the creation of Helvetica, for instance. It’s a style that is very spare and very organized , with lots of emphasis on grids. You can see it in this poster I ma…

Microsoft Publisher is my go to software package for making posters. It hits a sweet point for me between power and ease of use. I recently found another reason to use Publisher: it lets you in to a whole new realm of type you might not have known existed. Many profess…

My last link roundup came out just before this year’s Academy Awards, which featured an ill-fated announcement of announcing the wrong winner. This article argues that the card design could have been much better and possibly avoided that memorable but embarassing mome…

The “Best of Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology” continues, with this contribution courtesy of Matthew Murphy! Click to enlarge! This is a very successful poster on multiple counts. There is not a lot of text. The visuals are simple, with a strong but limi…

“What’s the smallest point size you can put on a poster?” This is a common question, but it’s not one that has a simple answer. I know many scientists read this blog, and scientists work in a world where measurements are universal. 37°C is 37°C no matter wherever you a…