Description: "In this short handbook, an award-winning science communicator and teacher offers a quick guide for scientists and engineers who want to communicate-and better understand-their research by designing compelling graphics for journal submissions, grant applications, presentations, and posters. Distilling her celebrated books and courses to the essentials, Felice C. Frankel shows scientists and engineers the importance of thinking visually. This crucial volume in the Visual Elements series offers a wealth of engaging design examples--including case studies and advice from designers at prestigious outlets from The New York Times to Nature. Ideal for researchers who want a foothold for presenting and preparing their work for conferences and publications, the book explains the steps for creating a concise and communicative graphic to highlight the most important aspects of research. With clear before-and-after examples, Frankel shows how color, composition, layering, and other design details help researchers to communicate more effectively. The resulting book is an essential element of any scientist's, engineer's, or science communicator's library"--
Brief description: Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer and research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering, with support from Mechanical 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 the coauthor of Visual Strategies and author of Picturing Science and Engineering; the Visual Elements series of handbooks for communicating science and engineering (Photography, Design, and Abstraction), all published by the University of Chicago Press; and most recently, Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science Around Us.
Review Quotes: "Science is beautiful. Of course, that's true abstractly, but in this book, Frankel shows how it can be visually beautiful too. She's your skillful friend who will inspire you with the possibilities and then teach you the nuts and bolts to get started creating arresting graphics that tell a clear scientific story. Make sure you have a pencil nearby; your fingers will be itching to start sketching your science."--Siri Carpenter, cofounder and editor in chief of "The Open Notebook" and editor of "The Craft of Science Writing"