The Better Posters Gallery
An enjoyable part of writing the Better Posters blog has been showcasing well-designed posters. But as the number of posts rose, it got harder to browse. This page collects some notable, interesting, and unusual posters.
Zen Faulkes
Wolf diet
Kimberly Boustead for Joseph K. Bump, Thomas D. Gable, Autin T. Homkes at Voyageurs Wolf Project.
The Wildlife Society conference, November 2022. #TWS2022
Photo by Trish Brockman.
Auk eggs
Beatrice Demarchi.
9th Bird Working Group Meeting, June 2018.
https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2018/06/critique-sciencing-on-eggshells.html
Chekov tondo
Tatyana Orlova, Veronika Faynberg, Frank Fischer, Svetlana Lashchuk, German Palchikov, Ivan Pozdniakov, Evgenia Shlosman.
Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (Digital Humanities in German-Speaking Countries), 2018.
Texting poster
Hansard comic
Gavin Abercrombie.
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May 2018. #LREC2018
https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2018/06/critique-hansard.html
Poster in acrylics
Hand drawn
Rachel Louise Byrne.
32nd European Mustelid Colloquium. November 2017.
Winner, First place poster.
https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2017/12/critique-badger-parasites.html
Landscape in portrait
Aleksandra Dolezal with Amelia Dolezal.
Joint meeting of The Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution, the Entomological Society of Canada, and the Acadian Entomological Society, August 2019. #EcoEvoEnto2019
Winner, Best poster.
https://ecologyforlifeblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/27/my-advice-for-creating-an-academic-poster/
Interactive plague
Alison Atkin.
British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, September 2014.
Winner, Bill White prize.
https://deathsplaining.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/plagueposter/ (See blog post for interactive components)
Paper magic
Nicola Harman.
International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference, October 2022. #ICTMC2022
https://twitter.com/harman_nicola/status/1577301657582542852 (See tweet for video of interactive elements), http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2022/11/an-interactive-poster-with-sound-and.html
Don’t get mad
David M. Schultz
American Meteorolgical Society 2011, January 2011.
http://eloquentscience.com/2011/02/rethinking-poster-sessions-as-second-class/
Protest
Leila Akbari.
Society for Neuroscience, November 2018. #sfn2018
Photo by Lionel Rodriguez.
https://betterposters.blogspot.com/2018/11/blackout-poster-protests-travel-ban.html
Dead salmon
Craig Bennett, Abigail A. Baird, Michael B. Miller, George L. Wolford.
Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference, June 2009.
Winner, Ig Nobel prize for Neuroscience, 2012.
Poster abstract cited over 500 times.
http://prefrontal.org/blog/2009/09/the-story-behind-the-atlantic-salmon/
Agamid
Crustacean domination
René Campbell.
Australian Marine Science Association, July 2018. #AMSA18
Winner, Ron Kenny Prize.
https://twitter.com/ReneCampbellArt/status/1012679625271533571, https://twitter.com/ReneCampbellArt/status/1015120230350184448
Mantis minimalism
James O’Hanlon.
International Society for Behavioural Ecology Congress, year uncertain (described as "a few years back" in 2015).
https://crastina.se/the-best-poster-ever-made-interview-james-ohanlon-macquarie-university/, https://web.archive.org/web/20160503015107/https://jamesohanlonresearch.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/conference-posters-less-is-more/
Anther colours
Emily Austen.
Evolution conference, June 2016. #evol2016
http://betterposters.blogspot.com/2016/07/critique-anther-colours.html
My cat
Sarah Knowles.
Health Services Research UK conference, July 2019. #hsruk2019
Winner, Best poster.
Photo by Sarah Knowles.
Going on 5
Abril K. Bellido-Wardill.
International Society for Neuroethology, July 2018. #icn18
Photo by Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido.
Future congresswoman
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
International Science and Engineering Fair, 2007.
Second place, Microbiology category.
https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-to-capitol-hill/
Introducing the web
Tim Berners-Lee.
Hypertext conference, December 1991.
The paper introducing the World Wide Web was rejected and Berners-Lee showed a poster instead.
https://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/w3c10-HowItAllStarted/all.html, https://hapgood.us/2015/04/21/that-time-berners-lee-got-knocked-down-to-a-poster-session/
Laureate
John O’Keefe.
Society for Neuroscience, November 2022. #sfn22 (also #sfn2022)
O’Keefe shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014.
Photo by Tim Bredy.