Creating Conference Posters

Agenda Design Tips Project Planning Using PowerPoint for Conference Posters Time to work on your projects! Submit what you complete in class to Blackboard…

Sketch out a design! Think columns, grids, boxes! Project Planning Sketch out a design! Think columns, grids, boxes!

7 Design Principles

Visual Hierarchy Items should appear in an order of importance Users in Western Society reads: Left to Right Top to Bottom (Gutenberg Rule)

Color Theory Colors evoke emotions Keep dark print on light backgrounds and vice versa Be mindful of Vibrating Colors: http://accessibility.psu.edu/brightcolors Colors should be CMYK for print and RGB for screen

Create Visual Order by Designing on a Grid Your eye is looking for items on a page to line up. © Wikipedia, 2010

Dots Per Inch (DPI) Print requires 300 DPI for high quality printers, 150 for a home Web only requires 72 DPI

Selection with Restraint Limit Fonts and Colors

Whitespace Allow for adequate whitespace

Gathering Your Resources Text/Content Build in Microsoft Word or in a plain text file Images Use Google Image Search Advanced Search For Large Images!

Images Google Images Click the gear Advanced Search options change to larger than 6 MP Find images

Choosing a Color Palette Use a color scheme designer at http://paletton.com Choose one of the icons (generally 3 colors is enough!) and then move along the dial to find colors that work. Save that image!

Using the Color Contrast Checker Ensure your colors can be seen for those with vision impairments.

Now to begin work in PowerPoint!