Introduction to design skills for communicating research
Next workshop: 23rd September 1-5pm BST | Zoom
Cost £40 / €45
Workshop outline
In this intensive half day workshop you can expect:
Principles of great design – A lively presentation and discussion introducing the key concepts of colour, images, typography and composition.
Foundation skills in Affinity – Practical training in which participants use free professional design software to apply the design theory they’ve just learned:
- Interface walkthrough
- Geometric illustration
- Managing images, importing rasters and vectors
- Organising content into groups and layers
- Basic text formatting
The workshop is lead by Peter Moore Fuller, an experienced graphic designer and research communicator. Peter can help you improve your:
- conference posters
- infographics
- graphical abstracts
- journal figures
- data visuals
- newsletters, books and policy briefings
Registration
To register for this workshop, please email us.
Payments can be made by invoice (preferred) or by PayPal (with an admin fee of £5/€5).
Software (Windows / OSX) must be downloaded and installed before the workshop.
Discord Community
All workshop partcipants will be invited to join our Discord community:
- Get feedback on future design work
- Access our Affinity forum
- Attend free webinars
- Access a recorded version of the workshop.
Can’t make the date and time?
More dates for this workshop will be announced soon.