Out of the Box! Visualize Your Science

Aims

This comprehensive workshop offers practice-oriented approaches to visual communication for doctoral candidates and postdocs from all disciplines. In collaboration with a professional illustrator/designer, you will develop design skills to expand your professional portfolio. You get to know a large variety of free online tools for your further design journey.

Content

In the theoretical part of the first morning, you will learn which components are needed to create a visually appealing scientific poster and a PowerPoint presentation and how to use typography, colors, graphs, and pictures to your advantage.

In the practical part in the afternoon, you will dive into other participants' research and improve your first draft of your Key Visuals.

The agenda for the second day's morning includes presentations and receiving feedback on your posters and PowerPoint slides. In the afternoon, you'll have time to implement the input and discuss any questions or difficulties you encounter with the instructor.

Preparation
Task one:
You're going to work with your research! Please prepare posters or any presentations you want to improve design-wise for the second day. It is also possible to create a new poster or presentation.

Task two:
Watch the PowerPoint Tutorials, which you will get in the invitation.

Task three:
Create a first draft of your Key Visual. You will get further information as well in the invitation.

Please bring your laptop.

Day 1
- Introduction
- Design basics theory
- Infographics theory
- Design Thinking Exercise (Key Visual)
- Handouts

Homework
- Read the articles and the handouts
- Implement your Key Visual in your Poser / PowerPoint

Day 2
- Presentation of posters or PowerPoint to all participants
- Peer feedback
- Individual feedback with the trainer
- Feedback implementation in your project

Follow up
- Finalize your Poster and Presentation

Methods

Peer Feedback
One on Ones
Design Thinking

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

About the Trainer

Evelyn Huber-Trutmann, behance

Workload

Total of ~30 hours (preparation: ~1 hour, workshop: 2 x 8 hours, homework: ~1 x 8-10 hours, follow-up: ~1 x 3 hours)

Feature

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.