GIS Poster Info You will print and mount your poster in the GIS lab, Tisch Library Map Room – posters must be plotted by 5pm, May 7 th Try to get it finished and printed earlier! A lab assistant must send the plot - Lab assistant schedule – Upload you poster and paper to Student Work Zone by May 7 midnight
GIS Poster Info Posters should be 30x40 (either orientation is fine) You will mount your poster on poster board we will provide We will also provide glue, etc.
GIS Poster Expo May :30-5 Examples online at
Original presentation by Melanie St. James Senior Interactive Media Designer UIT - Academic Technology Modifications by Barbara Parmenter, 3/4/2011 Information Design Matters!
Readability improves: comprehension retention reading speed reading persistence Goal: Maximize Readability
Capture your audience!
VISUAL HIEARCHY:
Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop
Your design tools: Typography Layout Color Images
Design concepts Alignment Grouping Contrast
Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop
About type
My GIS Poster A quick design workshop
My GIS Poster A quick design workshop
My GIS Poster A quick design workshop Corporate Logos Redesign
Times New Roman Arial T T Serif vs. Sans Serif
Arial / Helvetica Print fonts Times New Roman Sans Serif Serif
Comic Sans… Story of Comic Sans: (Now Chalkboard on Apple OS)
Visual Hierarchy
San serif Arial headers, serif Times New Roman body text
The bold, the underlined and the italicized
Readability: Column Width The “alphabet-and-a-half ” line length rule: the ideal line length at 39 characters regardless of type size.
left align (GOOD!)Justified (BAD!)
bullets
Bullets – give them some space
Font size a a
Font Size Sheet On GIS Poster Design web site
A few words about COLORCOLOR
Interactive color wheel -
Sessions College Color Wheel
When working with images in a page layout software: What you see is NOT what you get
Resolution: Caution: Format: Working with Images 300 dpi web images are 72 dpi SnagIt - software to increase image resolution TIFF (can yield large files) GIF (solid colors, text) JPG (photos)
Tips for poster maps Export just maps with legend, north arrow, and scale Use Publisher to put in titles and other explanatory text No need to repeat scale, north arrow for maps that are same scale and layout
Tips for poster maps Export your map at the size it will be on the poster or bigger! Make sure everything – legend, labels, etc. is readable from 3 feet away Work with legend separately if need be to make it readable
Types of GIS posters Technique / Method Demonstration Advocacy Academic Science Conference Data Collection and Design
Design Process: Be in charge of your design decisions: color palette, fonts Identify most important elements & highlight them Take away anything that doesn’t directly support your MAIN IDEA Squint at your poster: what do you see?
? Which software to use MS PowerPoint Adobe InDesign MS Publisher
12 columns
3 main columns: 4 / 4 / 4