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critiquesThis week�s poster comes from Steven Harris Wibowo, a postgrad student at one of my old stomping grounds, the University of Melbourne, Australia.This poster was shown at the IUPAC World Polymer Congress in Thailand; click to enlarge!
He writes:
Steven didn�t say if he�s an old school 1982 Tron fan:
Or a fan of the more recent Tron: Legacy, which had an even more limited palette:
I�ve talked before about the power of pastiche; imitating something you like. When I do that, I can get quite obsessive in trying to match things. I would have looked at these images and used an eyedropper tool to match up shades exactly.
Steven didn�t go that route, as you can see by comparing the overall colour scheme in his poster to these images from Tron movies. He�s mostly gone for orange and green on a dark gray over Tron�s signature cool blue over black.
I like that the lines are clearly a design element in the poster, rather than boxes trying to impose order on the poster.
Dark backgrounds can be tricky: ink bleeds in to white spaces on paper, while light shines out of white spaces on screen. I worry that the print might be a little too fine to read. A very slightly heavier type might have worked a bit better.
Steven goes on:
This is always a good choice, although this is still a complicated looking poster with a lot of data. Complex multi-part figures are not as intimidating as a block of text, but they come close.
The flow of text is reasonably clear, although it gets a little complicated in the middle. While there are still clearly rows, the combination of the taller box plus the circle in the middle obscures the reading order a little. The use of low-key numbering is helpful here.
This design worked well for him:
Nicely done, Steven!
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He writes:
The organizer asked for a portrait A0 poster. After some soul-searching and brainstorming I came up with this design/concept. I love a dark background and for me, nothing trumps a simple black background if you can do it cleanly. I have also been inspired by neon colours (the movie Tron to be exact) and that's why I picked those bounding lines!
Steven didn�t say if he�s an old school 1982 Tron fan:
Or a fan of the more recent Tron: Legacy, which had an even more limited palette:
I�ve talked before about the power of pastiche; imitating something you like. When I do that, I can get quite obsessive in trying to match things. I would have looked at these images and used an eyedropper tool to match up shades exactly.
Steven didn�t go that route, as you can see by comparing the overall colour scheme in his poster to these images from Tron movies. He�s mostly gone for orange and green on a dark gray over Tron�s signature cool blue over black.
I like that the lines are clearly a design element in the poster, rather than boxes trying to impose order on the poster.
Dark backgrounds can be tricky: ink bleeds in to white spaces on paper, while light shines out of white spaces on screen. I worry that the print might be a little too fine to read. A very slightly heavier type might have worked a bit better.
Steven goes on:
I don�t particularly like to put too many words/explanations into my poster and would rather have spaces between my results and have a brief caption.
This is always a good choice, although this is still a complicated looking poster with a lot of data. Complex multi-part figures are not as intimidating as a block of text, but they come close.
The flow of text is reasonably clear, although it gets a little complicated in the middle. While there are still clearly rows, the combination of the taller box plus the circle in the middle obscures the reading order a little. The use of low-key numbering is helpful here.
This design worked well for him:
The judges and other participants loved the poster, which allowed me to win the best presentation prize!
Nicely done, Steven!
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