Last week, NPR’s "All Things Considered" covered an unusual topic: Scientific conference posters. NPR interviewed PhD student Mike Morrison about his initiative to encourage researchers to make better conference posters. She’s also an illustrator, and her background in art gives her a good eye for conference poster design. “Effective conference posters are focused on graphics, whether it be in the form of illustrations, figures, graphs, or photographs. Nicholas WuMorrison’s better poster design is still a far cry from work like Wu’s, but it could be a step in the right direction, as experts on scientific poster design are finally finding their audience.

Source: Forbes June 18, 2019 14:23 UTC