#25 Seven design insights on how to make SciComm sexy (with Liesbeth Smit, Founder of The Online Scientist)

Making design sexy. That is the mission of today`s guest. Liesbeth Smith dropped out of her PhD program to start her own design company and to make science sexy. 

On the web our science content competes with all other beautifully designed content. So, in order to stand a chance, Liesbeth brings seven hands-on tips to this episode on how you can increase the quality and attractiveness of your design – be it a presentation, a graphic or a report.

You can find Liesbeth through her webpage, on Twitter or LinkedIN.

Links to our free templates from Liesbeth:

Poster design article with a downloadable template.
E-book presentation design with a free basic template (to download a bit down on the page): 

In this episode we also talk about an episode of a podcast with Austin Kleon, who wrote a quite famous design book, called “Steal like an Artist”. Find the episode with him on “the futur” podcast here.

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