Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science Through Diagrams and Visualizations

Building Science Graphics: An illustrated guide to communicating science through diagrams and visualizations is a practical guide for anyone--regardless of previous design experience and preferred drawing tools--interested in creating science-centric illustrated explanatory diagrams. Starting with a clear introduction to the concept of information graphics and their role in contemporary science communication, it then outlines a process for creating graphics using evidence-based design strategies. The heart of the book is composed of two step-by-step graphical worksheets, designed to help jump-start any new project. This is both a textbook and a practical reference for anyone that needs to convey scientific information in an illustrated form for articles, poster presentations, slide shows, press releases, blog posts, social media posts and beyond.

《建築科學圖像：透過圖表和視覺化傳達科學的插圖指南》是一本實用指南，適合任何人（無論之前是否有設計經驗和偏好的繪圖工具）有興趣創作以科學為中心的解說插圖。書籍首先清晰介紹了信息圖形的概念及其在當代科學傳播中的作用，然後概述了使用基於證據的設計策略創建圖形的過程。本書的核心部分由兩個逐步圖形工作表組成，旨在幫助啟動任何新項目。這既是一本教科書，也是一本實用參考書，適用於需要以插圖形式傳達科學信息的文章、海報演示、幻燈片、新聞稿、博客文章、社交媒體帖子等等。

Jen Christiansen is a senior graphics editor at Scientific American, where she art directs and produces illustrated information graphics and data visualizations. She completed undergraduate studies in geology and art at Smith College, then happily merged the two disciplines in the scientific illustration graduate program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She began her publishing career in New York at Scientific American in 1996, moved to Washington DC to join the art department of National Geographic, spent four years as a freelance science communicator, then returned to Scientific American in 2007. She writes and presents on topics ranging from reconciling her love for art and science, to her quest to learn more about the pulsar chart on Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover.

Jen Christiansen是《Scientific American》的高級圖形編輯，負責藝術指導和製作插圖信息圖和數據可視化。她在Smith College完成了地質學和藝術的本科學習，然後在加利福尼亞大學聖塔克魯茲分校的科學插圖研究生課程中將這兩個學科合二為一。她於1996年在紐約的《Scientific American》開始她的出版事業，後來搬到華盛頓特區加入《National Geographic》的藝術部門，並作為自由職業科學傳播者工作了四年，然後於2007年回到《Scientific American》。她撰寫並演講各種主題，從調和她對藝術和科學的熱愛，到她對Joy Division的《Unknown Pleasures》專輯封面上的脈衝星圖的探索。