How do I choose colors?

YFF: I use tuned orange, yellow and blue for the logo. First, they are bright colors, giving people a fresh and living feeling. Second, they represent three different cells. Third, these three colors were mixed with some grey to give a balanced effect. That means synthetic biology not only relies on biological experiments but also requires inputs from computer science, mathematics, sociology, etc.

Logo design

YFF: I design the logo to reflect the focus of our project: signaling across the membrane. I use three polygons to represent three cells, with two on the left providing signals to the cell on the right. I use curved corners on some regions to implicit where two adjacent cells contact. I use two bold arrow lines to emphasize the signals are transduced from the left to the right. I arrange the arrowheads with our project name to suggest the signals are integrated to generate the output. My design uses simple elements, with a hope to bring an intuitive impression to people.

Bio-Art display

(see our detailed page for Bio-Art Display)

YFF: I am fully responsible for the Bio-Art Exhibition of Engagement and Public Education, which combines synthetic biology and art to engage the public in understanding synthetic biology and our projects.

In fact, Display is something initially very difficult for me, because I had very limited experience. I would like to thank the designers of Team 2017 Fudan and Team 2017 iGEM Fudan-China for their help and advice. Without their help, I couldn’t hold such a beautiful display. To make the exhibition look attractive, I also inquired my friends who major in the exhibition design, and they all gave me constructive advice.

To help the audience navigate the Display, there are a lot of humanized details in the exhibition. For example, we designed small note papers, on which the audience can write down their thoughts at any time throughout the display. In each exhibition area, there are always our team members present to help explain the project and also communicate with the audience. We also carefully designed the guidebook, which provides a brief explanation of the contents of the exhibition to help the audience have a better understanding.

wiki design

HT: I made this wiki template for Team:Fudan based on Materialize.

There are many useful features you should know on this wiki website:
• On most sites, a page navigator was added on the right side of main content as a quick guide of the page; you can find related links in this navigator
• The wiki displays well on either large screen devices (such as laptops) or small ones (such as mobile phones)
• The wiki is made to be print-friendly
• Footer contains the sitemap of our wiki, making it easy to surf to anywhere
• A yellow abstract button can be found at the lower right corner of the screen, clicking that will display the abstract of our project ENABLE
• Pages use cookie to record the positions; when you open the same page on the same device again, it will resume to where you previously were