Resources for designing scientific figures, posters, and presentations

Created: 2024-07-28

Last modified: 2024-11-10

I will keep adding resources for designing scientific figures, posters, and presentations. The following list includes both English and Japanese resources. The order of resources in each section is random and has no meaning.

General

• How To Give A Talk By David L Stern

Personally, I felt that using black slides in the middle of the presentation was a bit weird. However, other points discussed on the website are very practical and useful.

• Share Your Research: How to Give a Good Talk by iBiology courses

• Susan McConnell "Designing effective scientific presentations" 2011

• 伝わるデザイン | 研究発表のユニバーサルデザイン

• 平田たつみ、タジ・ゴルマン、広海健 (2016) "遺伝研メソッドで学ぶ科学英語プレゼンテーション" dZERO

• Felice C. Frankel (2024) "The Visual Elements - Design" The University of Chicago Press.

• Colin Purrington "Designing conference posters" 

• Woolston (2016) - Conference presentations: Lead the poster parade

• Pain (2022) - How to prepare a scientific poster

• How to design an award-winning conference poster

Font

I have used the "Inter" font for the past several years, and it looks good for presentation slides and posters. The "Inter" is a San Serif font designed by Rasmus Andersson. GitHub Google Fonts 

Colour Pallets

• ColorBrewer v2.0

Useful website for deciding colour palettes. 

• Better Figures

• NIPPON COLORS

• Material Design Color Palette

Examples 

Thanks to technological developments, it is easy to find good, inspiring, interesting presentation resources online. 

• William Friedman "Who Discovered Evolution" 2020

• Joshua Weinstein "Optics-free spatio-genetic imaging with DNA microscopy" 2019

• Tadashi Tokieda "Toy Models" 2018

• Tadashi Tokieda "Science from a Sheet of Paper" 2018

• サイエンスドリーム

専門が異なる研究者や、研究をしていない一般社会の人に自分の研究の面白さを伝えるためのポイント学べる動画が多い。

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