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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.

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1 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 – http://gis.tufts.eduhttp://gis.tufts.edu Upload you poster and paper to Student Work Zone by May 7 midnight

2 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.

3 GIS Poster Expo May 8 2013 3:30-5 Examples online at http://gis.tufts.edu http://gis.tufts.edu

4 Original presentation by Melanie St. James Senior Interactive Media Designer UIT - Academic Technology Modifications by Barbara Parmenter, 3/4/2011 Information Design Matters!

5 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mswanson/archive/2007/05/06/bad-design-by-example.aspx

6 Readability improves: comprehension retention reading speed reading persistence Goal: Maximize Readability

7 Capture your audience!

8 VISUAL HIEARCHY:

9 Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop

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12 Your design tools: Typography Layout Color Images

13 Design concepts Alignment Grouping Contrast

14 Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop

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16 About type

17 My GIS Poster A quick design workshop

18 My GIS Poster A quick design workshop

19 My GIS Poster A quick design workshop Corporate Logos Redesign http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/weekinreview/31marsh.html

20 Times New Roman Arial T T Serif vs. Sans Serif

21 Arial / Helvetica Print fonts Times New Roman Sans Serif Serif

22 Comic Sans… Story of Comic Sans: http://www.connare.com/comic.htmhttp://www.connare.com/comic.htm (Now Chalkboard on Apple OS)

23 http://www.typebrewer.org

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27 Visual Hierarchy

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29 San serif Arial headers, serif Times New Roman body text

30 The bold, the underlined and the italicized

31 Readability: Column Width The “alphabet-and-a-half ” line length rule: the ideal line length at 39 characters regardless of type size.

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34 left align (GOOD!)Justified (BAD!)

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36 Bullets – give them some space

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38 Font Size Sheet On GIS Poster Design web site

39 A few words about COLORCOLOR

40 http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html

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44 Interactive color wheel - http://colorschemedesigner.com/ http://colorschemedesigner.com/

45 Sessions College Color Wheel http://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator http://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator

46 When working with images in a page layout software: What you see is NOT what you get

47 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) http://creativecommons.org/image/

48 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

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50 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

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56 Types of GIS posters Technique / Method Demonstration Advocacy Academic Science Conference Data Collection and Design

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63 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?

64 ? Which software to use MS PowerPoint Adobe InDesign MS Publisher

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