The Visual Elements?Design: A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering

Frankel, Felice C.

ISBN 10: 0226829162 / ISBN 13: 9780226829166

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2024

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Synopsis:

With insights and examples from designers at publications from Nature to the New York Times, an essential guide to creating figures and presentations.
 
In this short handbook, award-winning science communicator Felice C. Frankel offers a quick guide for scientists and engineers who want to share—and better understand—their research by designing compelling graphics for journal submissions, grant applications, presentations, and posters. Like all the books in the Visual Elements series, this handbook is also a training tool for researchers. Distilling her celebrated books and courses to the essentials, Frankel shows scientists and engineers, from students to primary investigators, the importance of thinking visually. This crucial volume in the Visual Elements series offers a wealth of engaging design examples. Case studies and advice from designers at prestigious publications and researchers’ own before-and-after examples show how even the smallest changes—to color, type, composition, and layering—can greatly improve communication. Ideal for researchers who want a foothold for presenting and preparing their work for everything from conferences to publications, the book explains the steps for creating a concise and communicative graphic to highlight the most important aspects of research—and to clarify researchers’ own thinking. The resulting book is an essential element of any scientist’s, engineer’s, or designer’s library.

About the Author: Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, with support from Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Frankel is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At MIT, Frankel developed and instructed the first online MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) for edX addressing science and engineering photography. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel has had images appear in Nature, Science, Cell, TheNew York Times, National Geographic, PNAS, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover, Popular Science, and New Scientist, among others. She is coauthor of Visual Strategies and the author of Picturing Science and Engineering; The Visual Elements—Photography and The Visual Elements—Design, both also published by the University of Chicago Press; and, most recently, Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Visual Elements?Design: A Handbook for ...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Edition: First Edition.