tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post6957548847924665733..comments2024-03-20T12:56:48.451-05:00Comments on Better Posters: Critique: Texas crayfishZen Faulkeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-73305132141551471152012-08-15T14:03:50.455-05:002012-08-15T14:03:50.455-05:00I don’t recommend landscape over portrait, really....I don’t <i>recommend</i> landscape over portrait, really. It’s just that:<br /><br />1. Most of the meetings I go to use landscape format. Judging from the requests for critiques I get, this is not unusual. My readership is probably biased toward biology, though.<br /><br />2. I find laying out landscape posters easier than portrait ones.<br /><br />I get the impression that portrait format posters are more common in Europe than North America. It wouldn’t surprise me it that also varies from discipline to discipline.Zen Faulkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-49899679255887015672012-08-15T14:00:41.656-05:002012-08-15T14:00:41.656-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Zen Faulkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-66345200973629209422012-08-14T21:05:16.202-05:002012-08-14T21:05:16.202-05:00Fair enough - I hate hyphenation too, so am pretty...Fair enough - I hate hyphenation too, so am pretty anti full justification in small columns. Wide columns, yes. A lot of our students love it, but I tend to think it's like using every colour and every font - they do it because they can.<br />Maybe it's because I am a fast reader. I can't read slowly so anything that interrupts my scanning of text makes it very difficult to make sense of.<br /><br />Another thing, I'm interested that you recommend landscape rather than portrait posters. I don't disagree with you on that, but the vast majority of meetings I make posters for (I'm a biochemist by education but ended up doing graphics and database stuff for our dept) demand portrait posters. These are meetings all over the world, so it's not specific to where I live. Where do you find the meetings that allow enough space for landscape posters? I mean, we COULD make landscape ones, but they'd still have to fit into 900mm or so wide so would be much smaller than we can use for portrait.Bronwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347795137256267761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-24864238082132356342012-08-14T20:44:43.877-05:002012-08-14T20:44:43.877-05:00Not much more to say than what I said here: http:/...Not much more to say than what I said here: <a href="http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2010/03/love-my-justify.html" rel="nofollow">http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2010/03/love-my-justify.html</a><br /><br />There’s a trade off. Pretty sure I tried both ways before deciding that the clean edges were worth more to me than some wide spacing.Zen Faulkeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07811309183398223358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1481277762471114452.post-20546444578421725062012-08-14T17:15:49.751-05:002012-08-14T17:15:49.751-05:00Very nice poster in general - BUT - having fully j...Very nice poster in general - BUT - having fully justified type has given you some horribly stretched words at the beginnings of the "W" and "T" paragraphs. You are spot on with most of your critiques (I shall be using your advice in some things that I hadn't thought of), but I don't understand how you can bear the various nasties that come with justified type on posters. <br />Bronwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08347795137256267761noreply@blogger.com