Effective Visual Communication of Science (10.31.19)

Registration is CLOSED

Aim: You will understand the visual communication fundamentals and how to apply them to all types of scientific presentation. It’s a way of thinking that will help you make your research ideas and results more easily understood. I‘ll give you relevant practical advice you can use right away and hopefully change the way you think about visual communication. 

Takeaway: You will draw your research (a graphical abstract) and receive feedback on their your figures, data visualizations, posters, slides, submitted prior to the workshop.

Content: It's a comprehensive workshop that covers: 
• Communicating with scientific vs non-scientific audiences 
• Visual perception and what we humans find intuitive 
• Colors: how to amplify, not ‘fancify’ 
• Visual organization: how to structure to simplify comprehension 
• Eye-flow: effortlessly guide the audience through the design 
• Typography: how to create legibility, structure and aesthetics 
• General design advice: approaches used by professional science illustrators

More about the workshop: www.seyens.com

Format: 
• Lectures and discussions: theory and meticulously chosen examples 
• Exercise: you will draw/sketch a graphical abstract of your own research 
• Group work: you will get feedback on your graphical abstract from your peers 
• Feedback on your materials: ahead of the workshop, you will submit figures from your own publications and during the workshop you will get suggestions on how to improve them from presenter and peer scientists.

Trainer: Dr. Jernej Zupanc, Founder of Seyens Ltd. Jernej’s goal is to help scientists effectively communicate. Reading and studying eclectically, he is always on the lookout for new approaches that can be readily applied by researchers. He distills the most fundamental and easily applicable practical advice into workshops that are structured and easy to follow, memorable, relevant, useful and a fun learning experience. He has worked with 2500+ researchers at excellent institutions already in 19 countries and is considered to be one of the leading experts in visual communication of science. He holds a PhD (2011) in computer science, is a National Geographic published photographer and Fulbright alumnus. He worked as the Head of computer vision at a startup and as a Horizon 2020 project evaluator but now focuses on the workshops and grant writing.