Graphic design & Science
design tips for your scientific illustrations
FELIPE DELESTRO
contact@delestro.com
W O R K S H O P
illustrations
A service proposed by the Bioinformatics platform of IBENS
Scientific
Thion, M. S., & Garel, S. (2017).
On place and time: microglia in embryonic and perinatal brain development.
Current opinion in neurobiology, 47, 121-130.
INTRODUCTION
PRACTICAL WORK
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Before anything else,
we need to know how
images are displayed
DIGITAL SCREENS
additive color model
PRINTED PAPER
To better understand the relationship of size between pixels on screen and on printed paper, follow this tutorial
subtractive color model
RASTER
VECTOR
&
raster
raster
raster
vector
raster
vector
raster
vector
raster
vector
raster
vector
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vector
raster
vector
Use the right software for the right task !
RASTER
Photoshop or GIMP
JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF
VECTOR
Illustrator or Inskcape
AI, EPS, SVG, PDF
PRACTICAL
EXERCISE
01
Load a PDF file and extract an image from it. This can be very useful when we need to use figures from other papers !
Suggested paper:
Smooth 2D manifold extraction from 3D image stack | Nature communications
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15554
PRACTICAL
EXERCISE
02
Load a plot made with default settings, and remove all the unnecessary cluttering
PRACTICAL
EXERCISE
03
It's time to drawn !
Let's see how it is possible to make
a clear schematic for your paper
or presentation.
Suggested image:
Zebrafish embryo
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Contact
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prestations-bioinformatiques@biologie.ens.fr
Contact
http://www.ibens.ens.fr/?rubrique55
https://delestro.com/
IBENS | 46 rue d'Ulm | 6th floor, room 609
Inkscape Workshop
By Felipe Delestro
Inkscape Workshop
Enrich your work: design tips for your scientific illustrations On this workshop you'll learn the basic guidelines on how to use design techniques to better show your scientific results. From making illustrations to improving the clarity of your plots, both theoretical and practical lessons (always using open-source software) will change the way people perceive and understand your work.
