A Primer on Poster Exhibits

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All About Poster Exhibits

Before VR, before PowerPoint, and before overhead projectors there were poster exhibits. There are some good reasons to give this old technology a new look when crafting a presentation strategy.
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From the FPS Blog

Wastewater Treatment
Joel explains with visuals how a series of redesigns and other delays held up the construction of a wastewater treatment plant.

VR Maiden Voyage
Joshua takes our show on the road and connects folks in Portland and Ashland in a new collaborative VR environment called The Wild.

Zoom and Enhance
We resurrect an oldie but a goodie from the blog, because good advice never goes out of style.

Brain Candy (candy for your brain)

This map charts the most popular female baby names by state from 1960-2012, and it sure explains a lot.

In local news, the Portland Police Bureau is under fire for digitally altering a suspect's mugshot before adding it to a photo lineup that was presented to bank robbery witnesses.

There are tiny parks for bees hiding on the roofs of these bus stops in Utrecht.

This new 3D map shows precisely how warped our galaxy is.

In 1938 the city of San Francisco commissioned a massive scale model of the city that took two years and over 300 skilled craftspeople to build.

This map is visualizing gun violence in America.

Who's contributing to OpenStreetMap data in North Korea?

Studies show that states with more women lawmakers tend to protect women's reproductive rights more than states with fewer women lawmakers.

Scientists have created a "UniverseMachine" to tell us about the different ways galaxies form, and they're learning a lot.

Scientists say it's likely that one day our sun will solidify into a giant crystal orb. Cool.

If you haven't heard of the obsolete theory of spontaneous generation, that's ok because that's not where the flies are coming from.

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All About Poster Exhibits

From the FPS Blog

Wastewater Treatment Joel explains with visuals how a series of redesigns and other delays held up the construction of a wastewater treatment plant.

VR Maiden Voyage Joshua takes our show on the road and connects folks in Portland and Ashland in a new collaborative VR environment called The Wild.

Zoom and Enhance We resurrect an oldie but a goodie from the blog, because good advice never goes out of style.

Brain Candy (candy for your brain)

Wastewater Treatment
Joel explains with visuals how a series of redesigns and other delays held up the construction of a wastewater treatment plant.

VR Maiden Voyage
Joshua takes our show on the road and connects folks in Portland and Ashland in a new collaborative VR environment called The Wild.

Zoom and Enhance
We resurrect an oldie but a goodie from the blog, because good advice never goes out of style.