Design - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:01:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png Design - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 E-book design illuminated: Part 1 https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/30/e-book-design-illuminated-part-1/ Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:00:53 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2782 The world of e-book publishing today is a bit reminiscent of the World Wide Web of the mid-90s: the possibilities are fascinating, and there’s tremendous promise for new ways of communicating, but the roads there are still unpaved and littered with occasional potholes. I recently had the opportunity to create an e-book of Christopher Wallis’s Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy,… Read More »E-book design illuminated: Part 1

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]]> 2782 Image hunting: Tips for sourcing historical images https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/11/28/sourcing-historical-images/ Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:00:11 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1812 At Talk Science to Me, we spend a lot of time sourcing images, both for our own use on our blog and website, and for our clients. The right image can be invaluable to a document, either by helping to break up long blocks of text or by giving the reader extra information about what… Read More »Image hunting: Tips for sourcing historical images

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]]> 1812 Design style guides: Why you need one and how to make one https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/09/12/design-style-guides-need-one-make-one/ Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:09:51 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1774 Whether you’re in the initial stages of building your brand or you’re well established and undertaking an overhaul, a design style guide is well worth considering. Although it’s a non-trivial outlay in terms of both time and money, the headaches and expenses a design style guide can save you later on (starting pretty soon, actually)… Read More »Design style guides: Why you need one and how to make one

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]]> 1774 Typesetting matters https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/15/typesetting-matters/ Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:44:11 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1724 Typesetting and layout aren’t just important to how a document looks. They can also be vital to how easy it is to read. Content creators now have many options for handling these things themselves—everything from default themes in MS Word and Pages all the way up to TeX if you’re in a scientific field. But… Read More »Typesetting matters

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]]> 1724 Peeking in the designer’s toolbox https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/08/peeking-designers-toolbox/ Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:54:11 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1705 I am amazed by what our designers can do. I copy-edit a document and send it to Talk Science to Me designers Mari Chijiiwa or Jeff Werner as a Word file, just blocks of black and white text for pages on end. Then they work their alchemical magic and return it as a beautiful PDF file, with colours,… Read More »Peeking in the designer’s toolbox

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