design principles - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:01:27 +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 principles - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 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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]]> 1705 Coordinating cooks: Working with live designs https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/05/coordinating-cooks-working-live-designs/ Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:35:06 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1529 The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review is a massive report, created every four years, by the International Institute for Sustainable Development, one of Talk Science to Me’s oldest clients. We were asked to copy-edit, design and proofread this epic masterpiece, weighing in at 365 pages. The design portion of the project, with its more than 400 figures, tables… Read More »Coordinating cooks: Working with live designs

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