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Posters
Focus on main points
Don’t use a smaller font to cram more stuff onto the poster.
Cull the most essential information from everything you have. That is what goes onto the poster. If it’s still too much, cut some more.
Posters must be coherent
A poster is coherent when– It’s easy for your audience to move from one
topic discussed on your poster to another – It’s easy to see the relationships between topics
Poster coherence depends on visual connections, not textual connections
Posters are a visual medium
Posters almost always need visuals.– Make them the an effective size relative to their
communication ability Don’t minimize the visuals to fit more text
onto the poster
Visuals must communicate
Clipart for the sake of an image is bad Images for the sake of an image is bad
Make the poster readable
Never go below 24 points.– Yes, this will look huge on your monitor
It must be readable from 10 feet away. Easily readable….not a squint and work at it
11 seconds
11 seconds is how long you have to grab a person attention.
If the poster fails inside that 11 seconds, they don’t read it.
Use a consistent design
Don’t create a ransom note effect of fonts and colors
Normal page layout rules apply Any color must have meaning. Don’t
change colors for various areas without a good communication reason….adding visual interest isn’t one.
Use normal fonts
Don’t get fancy with font choice Use regular mixed case
– Not all caps– Not centered text
Simplify the image
People will look at a printed image longer than a poster image
Simplify the figure as much as possible. But not so much that the message is lost.
Clean margins
The margins give you a border. Posters are not gothic artwork, don’t over do the border
Use a clean margin without figures or text extending into them
Make the important stuff visible
The most important message on a poster should be placed in the top center.
The second most important message is top left.
Use columns
Posters are too wide for a single column.– Too much head movement is required.
Columns allow readers to read the entire poster as they precede from left to right.
Avoid web graphics
Web graphics are low resolution (96 dpi) and will not blow up to poster size well.
The jagged edges and pixelated appearance are both unprofessional
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