Kevin comments on A LessWrong poster for the Humanity+ conference next Saturday - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 15 April 2010 08:55:46AM 3 points [-]

I have a feeling that no matter what the current state of the poster design is, it needs more pictures. More than 50% of the poster should be made up of objects that are not blocks of text.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 15 April 2010 10:04:19AM 3 points [-]

I don't agree. Text as the primary content can be very visual with good graphic design. It's hard to find pictures that are informative and not merely illustrative. Non-informative pictures just distract and feel condescending.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 20 April 2010 03:09:21AM 1 point [-]

Maybe non-informative pictures just distract you, and feel condescending to you, but everything I've ever read besides your post indicates pictures are the way to go to attract and keep attention in general.

Could be your reaction is indicative of the target audience's? I doubt it though.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2010 02:27:55AM 1 point [-]

If we went with a more text-based design... I was thinking maybe incorporating the tag cloud into the design somehow might be cool? Some alterations could be made for visual appeal.

Just throwing out ideas.

Comment author: ciphergoth 15 April 2010 09:00:03AM 0 points [-]

This sounds very desirable, but what pictures can we use? Links would be very much appreciated - thanks!

Comment author: nerzhin 15 April 2010 03:01:54PM 2 points [-]

A start would be the map/territory banner at the top of Less Wrong itself, but you may already be using this.

Comment author: Nisan 15 April 2010 11:26:09PM 6 points [-]

Oh, so that's what that logo is about.