BeautifulFigureMaking

"Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated." — Anne Roe, 1952

Good scientific figures...

1. Distill information in the simplest possible way. This usually means not publishing every bit of data.
2. Are visually compelling. Beautiful figures draw readers in and encourage them to care about your work.
   
   

Conceptual figure-making resources:

• Science Magazine's Best Graphics of 2023
• PLOS Computational Biology's Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
• Nature's nature graphics blog

Practical figure-making resources:

• 3D Rendering (blender) — CG Figures on youtube
• Photography — Adobe's black background photography guide
  
  

Beautiful figure inspiration:

Jones et al.'s Bubble casting soft robotics Sung et al.'s Stacking, strain, and twist in 2D materials quantified by 3D electron diffraction Meyer et al.'s Parasitic infection increases risk-taking in a social, intermediate host carnivore