Graphic design & Science

design tips for your scientific illustrations

FELIPE DELESTRO

contact@delestro.com

W  O  R  K  S  H  O  P

resources

https://bit.ly/2MrL9jn

 

 

 

slides

 

https://slides.com/delestro/inkscape-workshop/live

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

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raster

raster

raster

vector

raster

vector

raster

vector

raster

vector

raster

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vector

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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

http://zebrafishlab.be/media-gallery/detail/6/10

prestations-bioinformatiques@biologie.ens.fr

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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