26 February 2015

Link roundup for February 2015

Miss Mola Mola has our latest contender for best poster title:


However, there was differences of opinion on this:

Apparently one judge scolded him and told author it was inappropriate.

I think the title is awesome and the judge is being a sourpuss. What do you think? Have your say in the comments!

And we have a second contender this month for best poster title! Paul Coxon wrote:

I learned if you want people to talk you about your conference poster, give it a bold/intriguing title.

 


When I ask someone with a beautiful poster at a conference how they made it, a high percentage of the time, the answer is, “Adobe Illustrator.” It’s powerful, but not easy to learn. Gary Poore has a guide to how to make line drawings in Illustrator here.

This is a fascinating discussion of sound effects in comics, where “catch” can be a word or a sound effect:

(S)ound effects are loaded with more information than just what a thing sounds like. ... they can often clarify the events in a panel by enhancing an action that is hard to capture in a still image. A sound might suggest degree or severity, for example, of an impact.

Emilio Bruna shared this interesting variation on a poster from grad student Christa Roberts:


It’s a good reminder that in a poster session, there are few rules!

A review of how decisions about typesetting can make text more readable, particularly for dyslexics. The two big take-aways: make the letters bigger and the lines shorter. Hat tip to Chris Atherton.

1 comment:

Mike Taylor said...

I think the title is awesome and the judge is being a sourpuss. What do you think? Have your say in the comments!

I think we're at a point now where social-media campaigns against people who are perceived to have crossed a line take off so quickly, and become so vindictive, that the conference organisers have little choice but to err on the side of caution, even at the expense of (what we perceive as) harmless fun.

It only takes one person to complain on Twitter about how this poster title created a hostile atmosphere, and we have a Situation. No conference wants to risk that.