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Scientific Poster
Design
How to keep your posterfrom resembling anabstract painting
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A poster can be betterthan giving a talk
More efficient because:
you totally bomb at giving talks
can be viewed while you nap
can hang in the department for years
can reach folks not in your field of research
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Posters serve as
Kool, wow!, checkthis out!, you mustbe smart!
An advertisement of your hard work
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Its just an illustrated abstract
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Is my abstract effective? Why should anyone care? What am I adding to current knowledge? Do I need to explain methods? Have I told them what I found and recommend?
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A portrait of agrad student
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@#&%!@#$, I have 12 hours to throw this thingtogether and get it printed before its due.
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How do I get months and years of
research onto my poster? Your poster is a short story Describe a few major points Arouse the reader
s interest to read on
Limit it to 250 words
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Recite after me,
Less is best!
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Simplify your paper into
poster format
Find out the size required!
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Whos my
audience?
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Remember, most of these scientists
come for the free booze
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Start puttingtogether your
2 main elements
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1) Simple, effective data
displays
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Keep it simplebut effective
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2) Small blocks
of supporting text
The need forchairs in frontof your poster
will not goover well
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Your copy should answer
What am I
adding?
Methods?
What did
I find?Why? What do Irecommend?
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I could actually read this
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Pick a software programAlthough youll probably gravitate towards PowerPoint,
consider a true design program.
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OK, but the colors will fool you Easy to use Inflexible Designed for overhead projection
PowerPoint
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Excellent More difficult to learn What you see is what you get Others: Canvas, Publish-It, Corel Draw,
LaTeX, etc.
Adobe Illustrator or InDesign
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Lets design a poster!
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Your poster title:
Think BIG!Really Big!
Group authors
names and
affiliations
Your biggest impact! BoldfacetypeNot all caps!
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The Secrets of Readable Text:
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Leave breathing space
around your text
Plain fonts even serif here
Same size and style Left-aligned
The reason is
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Hi there, my name is mitch collinsworth
and I would like to tell you about myself and howI got this job at cornell. Well you see, my
uncle had a friend who knew my cousin on
the other side and his daughter worked forfacilities. I was down on my luck and my sister
told me she knew a guy whos
nephew
swifes kid worked for this guys
father
and what can I say , he hired
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Hi there, my name is mitch collinsworth and
I would like to tell you about myself andhow I got this job at cornell. Well you see,
my uncle had a friend who knew my cousin
on the other side and his daughter workedfor facilities. I was down on my luck and my
sister told me she knew a guy whos
nephews wife
s kid worked for this guys
father and what can I say, he hired me with
no questions asked and just told me to keep
my mouth shut. So here I am at CCMR.
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Put the most important
part first!
Short and to the point! Upper left hand corner
Conclusions first!
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Easy for the eye to follow
Utter chaoswill make
folks dizzy!
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5
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Can anyone read
your body text?
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Title: 85 pointAuthors: 56ptSub-headings: 36ptBody text: 24ptCaptions: 18pt
Text sizes:
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Images and graphs say much
more than words
Should be readable from 1-2 meters
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Keep posters visual!
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Picture perfect photos Avoid resolution overkill!
At least 150 dpi, but no more than 300 dpi Save photos as jpg or png
Line art as a png (graphs)
Web images are usually
poor resolution
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jpg
png
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Your cool images
mean nothing
without ascale bar or
description
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Dont forget your funding
acknowledgements
CNF-NSF-BMR, etc Your department canprovide you with the
required wording
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Your contact info!!!
Include allcontact info:
Mail address Phone E-mail
Without it youll becomeya know, those guys with the awesome poster
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Using color to engage your readers2-3 colors, no more!
Dark type on light color background
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This attracts attention but tires out the eye
Whoa! Wheres my sunglasses?
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Be carefull with the
primary colors
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. ornell enter for Materials Research -
ellow on white is h rd to re d
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http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
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Be aware of busy backgrounds
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A little different!
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Edit, Edit, Edit and
Evaluate!
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Can you read the type?
Are these the colors you really want?Does it look too busy?
Do my main points pop?
Print out a letter size draft
Keep it simple
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CCMR has 2 poster printers!
Our wonderful computing facilities offers
state of the art poster printing
The secret of a good poster:Ugly design print ugly poster
http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/cf_newsite/poster_print/index.html
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You
re not done yetPrepare a 3-5 minute verbal explanation
Is he evergoing to
SHUT UP???
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Prepare mini size poster handouts
Provides a written record for
interested folks Makes you look together Be sure to include complete
contact information Might even get you a job!
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Let
s judge some designsand see what youve learned
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A bit text heavy
but not too bad.
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Nice poster
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Where do I
begin?
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Im feeling
sleepy
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OK, butwhich way
do I go?
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Perfect!
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Oh my gawd!
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Nice flow,
but too
metallic
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Ive fallen,
and I cant get up
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Gorgeous!
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Welcome tothe 80s
Fer sure!
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This works!
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http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/
Helpful sites on poster presentations:
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LiLynn Graves
Web and Graphic Designer, CCMR