LAB

MEETING

LAB

MEETING

26.03.2019

What is Felipe doing now that the paper is submitted ?

ILLUSTRATIONS

BIG PLAN

Why is he still here ?

Is he staying forever ?

Drawing is a real job now ?

Does this means he will keep complaining about our colormap choices ?

what's

now

different

?

CURRENT STATE

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

PAPERS

VISIBILITY

1

2

3

4 CURRENT STATE

is there any chance this is actually going to work ?

CURRENT STATE

Thion, M. S., & Garel, S. (2017).
On place and time: microglia in embryonic and perinatal brain development.
Current opinion in neurobiology, 47, 121-130.

Including taxes, we need 39.000 € annually to keep the Illustrator position

This means a monthly income of 3.250 € per month

As an platform service,the value is estimated according to time needed for the project

One figure in average range from 600€ to 900€, varying with complexity

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

Consumable material

[2]

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

[2] https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-a-university-scienc-5827381

What's the estimated cost of a publication ?

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

Consumable material

[2]

Publication fee

[3]

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

[3] https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676#price

[2] https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-a-university-scienc-5827381

What's the estimated
cost of a

1000 €

One year of post-doc salary
[1]

Consumable material

[2]

Publication fee

[3]

Illustration

[1] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Postdoctoral_Research_Associate/Salary

[3] https://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676#price

[2] https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-what-it-actually-costs-to-run-a-university-scienc-5827381

good

publication ?

less than 2% of the total investment

Are there alternative forms to complement the income ?

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

SCIENCE &

SOCIAL MEDIA

do scientists have a social life ?

Facebook

Twitter

Intagram

Dribbble

Behance

quick examples

A strong presence on twitter could help with client prospection for the platform !

PAPERS

can we make real publications about design and science ?

For a long time, the bad use of colormaps drives me mad...

Spectrum

or Rainbow

Physics

or Jet

Viridis

For a long time, the bad use of colormaps drives me mad...

Spectrum

or Rainbow

Physics

or Jet

Viridis

Glasbey

https://github.com/delestro/ImageJColormaps

VISIBILITY

if the clients cannot find us, how are we going to work ?

scientific illustrations

Design studio, good but more like 3D renderings [link ]

Free 3D renderings. But from the same website they also provide "Illustration service" [link ]

Article about anatomy and biology drawings

Kind of society for anatomy and biology drawings

figure editing paper

English proof reading, no figures service

Proof reading app. No figures service

Question on research gate about software to make illustrations (post from 2013)

Question on research gate about software to make illustrations (post also from 2013)

Article about software to create figures

figure design

Normal design studio, not scientific

Article from Broad Institute about good practices for figures. Not really a service, but it has a "make an appointment" button

Book about drawings

Course about making good scientific figures

help to design figure paper scientific

Research gate question about software to make illustrations (post from 2013)

Research gate question about software to make illustrations (post from 2013, same as before)

Paper about making scientific figures (short but interesting) [link]

Article about software (same as before)

Article about making figures with quality. Focus more on raster images and resolution

tutorial figures scientific

Presentation about a tutorial on how to use Inkscape. Focus on making figures for publications.

List of tutorials about Illustrator, with focus on figures for publications

Article about using Illustrator to make scientific figures.

Series of video tutorials on how to use Illustrator to make scientific figures

Selling a big video tutorial of how to use Illustrator to make figures. They say they are a community of "scientists, graphics professionals, students and educators interested in scientific visualization."