A sketchbook with handwritten notes about dark matter is partially obscured by an open magazine featuring a venn diagram of possible dark matter categories.

Tip Sheet: Designing Science Graphics

This article for The Open Notebook includes strategies that I’ve developed for creating graphics in the service of science journalism, on deadline

About the opening image: From initial exploratory sketches to the final product, creating a science graphic is a process. (See the story where this final graphic was published in the December 2015 issue of Scientific American.) 

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