2. Creating Scientific Posters Tim Miller, SpokenScience.com

3. Topics Today: 1. Posters: Good and Bad 2. Tips on Poster Design and Delivery 3. Group Poster Critique

4. Why Posters? Breadth of Content Posters are Concise Posters are Easy Posters are Visual Posters are Written Good And Bad

5. Why Not Posters? Posters are not Deep. Posters are not (usually) Permanent. Posters (often) lack Context. Posters are not (usually) Peer- Reviewed. Good And Bad

6. Good Posters Are Attractive Are Legible Are Digestible Express One Idea Good And Bad

7. Bad Posters Are Unattractive Are Illegible Are Indigestible Do Not Express One Idea Good And Bad

8. Poster Design Step One: Write Down The Ideas

9. Poster Design Step Two: Make A Plan

10. Let the ideas shape the space. Do not let the space shape the ideas.

11. Poster Design

12. MRS, Spring 2011 Step Three: Assemble Your Data

13. Poster Design Bitmap Graphics vs. Vector Graphics

17. Poster Design Step Three: Colors and Fonts

19. Can YOU Read This?

22. Poster Design his is a Serif Font The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. his is a Sans Serif Font The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. T T

23. Poster Design Step Four: Lay It Out In Software

24. Poster Design Supports Layers Supports Vector Graphics Has Bezier Tools and Good Rulers Supports Alpha Channels Supports Equation Editing Good Software

25. Poster Design Step Five: Print and Hang it a Week Before!

26. Poster Design Step Six: Go to the Session

27. You Are Not Alone... Poster Design

28. EXAMPLES Retrieved from eposters.net

39. Questions? tim@spokenscience.com