I repeatedly found myself google-ing for the ultimate science image (clipart) for my presentations and had to give up many times admitting that there are un-googleable images :). Probably if I had have more time, I could have found something decent, but at these times the clock is always ticking and the deadline too close (... or did I start working on the presentation too late again). Anyway, to avoid this frustration the next time, I started drawing my own images and illustrations. Simple but correct. It should function as a library where I can go and pick the one I need.
I noticed that many other researchers have the same problem, that's why I decided to share the library with everyone. Feel free to read more about it here: http://www.somersault1824.com/science-clip-art/
or go straight to the library here: http://www.somersault1824.com/your-library-of-scientific-clip-art/
I was wondering how you bring in visuals in your presentations? Do you make it yourself too, or do you have other resources? What do you think of my initiative?
Oh, and maybe you think that your topic is not covered in this library. Well, I realized this too, that's why suggestions of users will get priority to get into the library. I add new clipart every week.
Great idea but, not all of us have the talent to draw perfectly ^__^ , thanks for the sharing your library.
Thank you for sharing your resources! I end up just taking pictures myself to present what I'm working on, but from your drawings, it seems that you can't really take pictures of your work ;)
Thank you for sharing!
My personal resources are OpenClipArt (for small cliparts, see http://openclipart.org/) and "home-made" things I create in inkscape (usually of fairly low quality, in retrospect). One other great tool to create images is PGF/TikZ, particularly if you're already using LaTeX beamer anyway. See the wikibook on LaTeX, which has an introduction to TikZ (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/PGF/TikZ), and texample.net which provides nice sample code from many users.
As for pictures, I usually try to use flickr (which has a lot of creative commons images).
I deal in peptides, and those are very sequence dependent, so I use a lot of block diagrams to get my message across. I found Adobe Illustrator to be the best for generating original art, and you don't need to be an artist. I use this for presentations, diagram art for papers, and posters. A bit pricey, but after learning a few simple tricks, it's very powerful.
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