There is a scathing review coming out on the topic of academia (particularly the US one). While the general tone of the dissertation is negative, they do indicate a strong need, or rather duty, of scientists to communicate our findings as clear and understandibly as possible. Personally, I completely agree with this. Clear communication sometimes hinges on explaining everything in cool graphics, be it in posters or in presentations. So how do we learn how to create cool graphics? Well, one avenue is comics! They have supplied us with concise stories, be it comical or educational, applying graphics to provide a visual narrative.

One of my favourite online comics is Dresden Codak. Witty, beautifully drawn and often requiring quite some thought to understand the story, it is everything I seek in a comic. The author/artist also provides us with excellent tools to learn about visualisations, as he keeps a superb weblog analysing various forms of visual narration. This post is my favourite, as it indicates very clearly how we can use space intelligently in our graphics to tell a story, and what pitfalls to avoid. I hope it will provide us all with good inspiration for our next talks! Good luck!

This is my poster submission for the Nano.DTU’s Fifth NanoDay.  NanoDay 2007 B. 

This: 2007 Scandinavian Workshop on Scattering from Soft Matter Poster was the contribution for the 4th Scandinavian workshop on Scattering. The workshop took place in Lund, Sweden, at the beginning of February. The next workshop will be held in Trondheim, Norway, and I’m looking very much forward to it. The conference itself had an amiable atmosphere, with many of the participants being on familiar terms.

This poster 2007 dansync poster is an adaptation on the first, highlighting the facilities available at the Risø National Laboratories. It will be shown tomorrow, on the 37th Danish Crystallographic meeting, and 9th DANSYNC meeting, to be held in Copenhagen. Friday there will be a symposium as well, but there is no poster session associated with that.