![]() Many universities offer inexpensive printing services, but watch out for long wait times and low-quality paper or color. ![]() It may feel like you’re wasting valuable real estate, but it’s a simple way to make a poster feel less cramped and more inviting.Īfter weeks of blood, sweat, and edits, it’s finally time to print your poster. Make sure to leave enough space around the border of your poster (several inches) and between sections (at least one inch). And if you don’t have an artistic eye, consider working with a template. To keep your poster looking neat and tidy, please (please!) use gridlines. See how frustrating it is when things aren’t lined up? Can you present your methods as an illustration rather than text? Can you present your results in a graph instead of a table? Go for it! It’s OK (albeit strange for most scientists) to use incomplete sentences and bullet points, and to ditch details. Less text = more visitors to your poster. Minimum recommended text sizes are: 85 pt font for the main title, 36 pt for subheadings, 24 pt for body text, and 18 pt for captions. ![]() But if you plan to make several posters in your life, it’s worth investing the time to learn a program specifically for layout design: Adobe InDesign or Illustrator for the rich and spoiled, or Scribus or LaTeX for an open-source alternative.ġ2-point Times New Roman won’t cut it on a poster. Still, I can see the appeal: everyone already has PowerPoint so multiple collaborators can work on the file.īottom line: Use PowerPoint if you must. PowerPoint is intended for slideshows (so most of its tools are pointless for poster design) and the color you see on your computer screen will likely look different in print. PowerPoint is the program of choice for most poster-making scientists, and it drives me crazy. Having an established storyboard will help when you move your ideas to the computer. In the early planning stages of your poster, use a pen and paper to sketch things out. Too often I see posters that are larger than their provided boards and spill onto their neighbors’ posters. I’m not sure why I have to say this but: read the instructions to presenters. ![]() Here are some tips and tricks to make this perilous labor a little easier: It should be sleek, yet informative eye-catching, yet professional and most of all it should attract the attention of your future advisors and collaborators who keep making trips to the beer and wine counter. ![]() Conference season is upon us! Around the world, thousands of scientists face a daunting task: designing a scientific poster. ![]()
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