Many people have discussed the deficiencies of “ sliduments ”: PowerPoint printouts that are given instead of actual, detailed prose documen...

Posters have to be self-contained, in two senses of the word. This is a major difference between posters and slides. First, you only have ...

This graphic puts a large number of fonts “at a glance.” Mimicking the periodic table of the elements is an interesting idea, although it’s ...

As a scientist, I have to keep up with journals in my research field. For most journals, I get an RSS feed with the title and abstracts of ...

In the last post, I talked about the power of proximity in structuring text and guiding readers through the text. Here’s an example of where...

Erren and Bourne (2007) offer 10 tips for poster design. But as is often the case, there is a point I will contend. They write: Guide the re...

At Mind the Gap, Jennifer Rohn mentions a title that set my mind ablaze with possibilities: Science PR: do we need a Trinny and Susanna for...