People, I cannot believe that I have only just now happened upon the Better Posters blog. It is nothing short of The Bestest Thing Evah!!
I am a huge huge stickler for good presentations. Content *and* style. It matters. Bad presentations make me itch. You don't like to give them and nobody else likes to see/listen to them.
There are soooo sooooo many absolutely TERRIBLE posters out there. There is no one way to do it right, but there are so many more ways to do it wrong and it seems that a lot of people presenting at conferences are making a valiant attempt to try all the wrong ones first before they move on to something actually intelligible. Please don't be one of them.
The next time you need to make a poster, spend a coupla hours perusing this blog first. You will be so glad that you did.
I make pretty fucking good posters already, but there's always room for improvement so this one's going on the blogroll.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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I love Better Posters too! I've also been meaning to give Zen a plug on my blog--maybe this could be his big week of publicity!
Timely! I'm in the middle of making my poster for ESA....
Looks like he plugged yours Becca (or at least your twitter feed).
Eugenie - have fun!
Awesome. Thanks for the link!
I've bookmarked it. Thanks for the link, AA!
Good poster presentations is one of my soap boxes in the lab
Along with Presenting Your Data in Slide Form
It also happens that I have created a few resources for better poster presentations for my lab in recent years:
Poster Creation in Adobe Illustrator
Line Drawings
Comic sans is universally abhorred, even in non-academic circles. Good advice for anyone using fonts for anything!
So this is where all that traffic has been coming from!
Thanks so much for your kind words and recommendation. I hope people will find it useful.
No Zen, thank *you*. I also hope people will find it useful. More good and fewer bad posters at conferences would make the world a slightly better place. :)
Oh this is just so awesome, thanks for the link! I'm a huge presentation geek. I have bookmarked and plugged.
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