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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly. Of Poster Presentations…. Posters are a Visual Medium. Minimize text – use images and graphs Use phrases / bullets rather than sentences/paragraphs Left justify text ; avoid centering or right justified

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The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

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  1. The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

  2. Of Poster Presentations…

  3. Posters are a Visual Medium • Minimize text – use images and graphs • Use phrases / bullets rather than sentences/paragraphs • Left justify text; avoid centering or right justified • Use upper & lower case for most text; use ALL CAPS sparingly – only for headings or title • Text should be at least 24 point for text, 36 for headings

  4. Exhibit A

  5. Exhibit B

  6. How to make a great poster… • A great poster is… Readable • Readability is a measure of how easily ideas flow from one item to the next. Text with a lot of grammatical problems, complex or passive sentence structure is hard to read. • Legible: text that can be read from a distance of 6-10 feet away. • Well organized: people approach new information in a known spatial sequence: horizontally from left to right. White space is important. Balance is important.

  7. Poster Essentials • Title – concise name of poster, contributors, organization • Introduction – quick overview of poster • Problem/hypothesis – statement of the problem or hypothesis being tested • Methods – brief description of processes and procedures • Results – outcomes, findings, data • Conclusion – summary, discussion of significance of results, in a few easily remembered key conclusions

  8. Images • Pictures should be high resolution. Images downloaded from the web are lo-res. 200 dpi at final size is good.

  9. Sizing images • Take care to avoid distorting proportions Tip: hold down shift key while dragging out from corner.

  10. UseofColor • Some color = good • Toomuchcolor = bad • No color = ugly • Rule of thumb: stick with a limited palette of colors (2 or 3 max) Olestem explit eosandi tatist lacimus eat exped que re, incil esto illabor epellat emquasi mporporem evenducid ut voluptas miliae voluptaquas arcium aut que ne nobitiossed quia sed eiuntur, volorem oluptat empelestorio moluptat ad mincto dolupta comnihici to cum sit plit, aliquosamus adiciis dellescipis dunt. INTRODUCTION • Take care with background colors: not to dark (making text hard to read) • When using white text on color make sure background is dark enough…

  11. Setting up your file…

  12. Basic Structure

  13. Guidelines & Aligning

  14. Printing your poster… • Vendors for printing include UNM Copy Center(36” max width). They can print from PPT or PDF. • Albuquerque Reprographics (has special UNM pricing, but more than UNM Copy Ctr). They can also laminate and mount on foam core. They prefer PDF. • Kinko’s • Etc.

  15. Conclusion • Before you start ask yourself: “If the viewer carries away only one idea, what do I want it to be?” • Write down your answer. This is the theme of your poster. Everything you include on the poster should support this theme. • Posters tell stories in a visual medium… what you did, why & how you did it, and what you learned by doing it. • Questions?

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