Tag: design

I’ve been part of the organising committee for the SMP Maths Graduate Seminar Series since the start of the semester. During a boots-on-the-ground door-knocking campaign, we realised that a few posters put up around the place would really boost our attendance. The main purpose is to reach the eyeballs of our colleagues who are less inclined to checking their emails, but of course it also imbues the series with a greater sense of professionalism. I’ve been in charge of poster design, and I’m proud of the work, so I’m going to share the results here.

Well, I’m not going to apply for any graphic design jobs any time soon! But I reckon it’s alright for a mathematician. You can see a rough template and theme developing over the semester. All the posters are produced with Inkscape, which I’ve had a real fondness for ever since Rhuaidi Burke recommended it to me earlier this year.

I can’t take credit for every element of creativity — I’m indebted to Wikimedia commons for some of the more complex graphics for which I lacked either the time or skills to create myself. I’m getting better and would like to expand my diagram production skills, and building off the work of those more competent than me is a great way to do that. I’m going to include the graphics I’ve used here so that you can infer by omission the work that is mine 🙂

I ‘m going to try to figure out how to make a diagram like the geodesic above, watch this space!