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Developing a Poster
Start early
Plan every detail
Always do a “mock up poster”
Keep it simple
The Ideal Poster is Designed to…
Provide a brief overview of your work
Initiate discussion
Attract attention
Give you something useful to point to as you
discuss your work
Stand alone when you’re not there to provide an
explanation
Let people know of your particular expertise
Appeal to auditory and visual learners
Provide a place to set your handouts
Key Steps in Creating a Poster
Read over the guidelines for the sponsoring group
Determine and gather content
Decide on format (section headings)
Design a visually appealing display
Make a mock up
Layout
Font type & size
Color
Graphics
Edit ruthlessly
Do the real thing
Computer software
Art tools
Graphic Artist
Read Over the Guidelines for
the Sponsoring Group
Each sponsoring institution will provide you
with a list of guidelines for posters. This will
include the acceptable overall size of the
poster for their venues as well as type of
supporting structure (table top, push pin
board) They will also provide you with any
other additional information essential for time
and location of your presentation once you
have been notified that your poster has been
accepted.
Determine & Gather Content
This is the “meat and potatoes” of your
poster; the information you want to share with
colleagues. The essential elements of your
project or research are defined, explained
and clarified for the audience.
Decide on Format
This will help you structure your poster.
Several combinations are available (see
Poster Headings Combination sheet). Most
commonly used combination for education
poster is: Title, goal, objectives, curriculum,
methods, results, discussion and conclusion.
Several other combinations are available and
are perfectly acceptable if they meet your
needs.
Design a Visually Appealing Display
&
Make a Mock Up
A Word with the first letter capitalized and the remaining letters in
lower cause is easier to read that a WORD in all capital letters.
Avoid ORNATE & Italic styles. Artsy typefaces can be hard to read.
- 3 seconds to stimulate
Audience controlled infinite 10-50 minutes interest
Time
-30 seconds to convey
overall concept
- 2-5 minutes to provide
enough information for
further exploration
Place Controlled by the audience In front of a captive -in a room or hall with
audience many other posters
-audience on the move
Auditory/Visual
Mode of Visual -pacing Visual and auditory if
-body language you are in attendance
Communication
-reading -responsive to audience
-print reaction
-visual aids
Tips to Making Posters
Accessible
The poster size should meet conference guidelines for size and content
The title of a poster should state the conclusion of the investigation rather than the process
of what was done
The heading should include the authors’ names and affiliations
Lettering for titles should be readable from at least 6 feet away
Words should be spelled out, avoiding mysterious abbreviations to decode
Words should run from left to right
The text, tables and graphics should look integrated. The same typeface should be used
for all and ruled lines separating different types of information should be avoided.
Type should be in upper and lower case in a sans serif face (e.g. Arial) that is clear and
precise
Lines of text should contain about 10 to 12 words
Lettering for text in the body of the poster should be readable from at least 4 feet away- use
no less than ½ inch high type
Color should be used sparingly and not with great contrast
Tables are preferable to graphics for small data sets
Tables also work well when data presentation requires many localized comparisons
Explanations should be used to enhance access to the richness of data and make graphics
more attractive to the viewer
Words and illustrations should go together- tables and graphics should be integrated within
the text whenever possible, avoiding clumsy diverting segregation
Lines in data graphics should be thin
Possible Combinations of Headings
Combination 1 Combination 2 Combination 3
Author/Title/Affiliation Author/Title/Affiliation Context
Objectives Objectives Objective
Data Sources/Study Setting Methods Design
Study Design Results Settings
Data Collection Conclusions Participating/Subjects
Principal Findings Funding Source Intervention
Conclusions Main Outcome Measures
Funding Source Results
Discussion
Conclusions
Funding Source
Combination 4 Combination 5 Combination 6
Author/Title Affiliation Author/Title/Affiliation Author/Title/Affiliation
Introduction Aims Research Objectives
Research Question Methods Background
Background Descriptive Issues Study Design
Importance Statistical Analysis Results
Methods Conclusions Conclusion
Study Sites Relevance Relevance
Study Population Funding Source Future Research
Data Collection Funding Source
Data Analysis
Findings
Conclusions
Implications
Funding Source
Possible Combinations of Headings
(cont…)
Hypothesis, Purpose or Research Question The point you were trying to figure out
Intervention Why did you try to affect the heath status (education) of
your participants?
Measures Part of methodology
Statistical Analysis The analysis of your data using various statistical tools
Title/Authors/Institutional Affiliation Identification of who gets the credit for doing the work. This
section is found at the top of the poster.
Developing a Poster on
PowerPoint
This is the Title of Your Presentation
Introduction / Photograph
Implication for
Background or Additional Future
Methodology /
Chart / Graph
Strategies
Ideas for new or
additional study
Objectives
Applicability
Discussion / elsewhere
Conclusions
Curriculum
PowerPoint Instructions for
Poster Development
What About Proportions (for Printing?)
In order to get your poster to print out properly, figure out how big
your final poster will be and create the slide with those
proportions, but reduced. For example, if you want a poster 3 feet
X 4 feet, then your PowerPoint slide should be 18” x24.”
You might find it easier to work with the smallest size slide, but
increase the Zoom (an icon in the upper right and corner of your
toolbar) to 75 or 100 percent while you are creating the poster.
Determine what three key points you want to make . You want
your poster to cover the key points of your work – not all the
details.
Before you begin work in PowerPoint, design and lay out the
poster ahead of time. You may use one piece or several
pieces of 8.5” X 11” paper to mock up the poster. Add the
headings; roughly scratch the text layout and graphics. Tape
or pin the sheets to a wall and rearrange them until you like
the arrangement, all the while remembering to keep within
your space allocation. This will determine how your final poster
will look. The process of designing your poster by “laying it
out” is called storyboarding.
7. Now add some color. Click on the Font Color icon. Select the down arrow, then More Font
Colors. Select the color you like, remembering that you want the title to be seen from a
distance. Remember that some color combinations will not work together; e.g., dark color on
dark color. Be sure there is good contrast between the background and the print font.
8. Lay out the sections of your paper. Once you have your boxes laid out you can start adding the
real information to the text boxes. When you are done, you can delete the line around the text
boxes, add color to the headings and or/change the font size and type.
Abstract- 5 point
Normal type- 8 point
Headings- 12 point
When blown up to the correct full size, these fonts will be quiet readable. Obviously, you will
have trouble reading a 5 point font. Please remember that you use the zoom feature to blow up
the slide to 200% of its original size to remedy this problem.
Simple Instructions
(cont…)
10. To add an image, go to the Insert Menu. Insert Picture From File. Then Ok. Or you can Copy
and Paste. Select the graphic in the original document, then Edit, Copy, click on the slide then
Edit, Paste. No matter where you think the image is going to go, it will always be in the wrong
place. Click on the image, hold the left mouse button down and drag the image where you want
it to go.
Background can be inserted by using the Format, Background command. Don’t be heavy
handed in your use of dark background. They use up a lot of ink and may overwhelm the
viewer.
Lines, boxes and arrows can be inserted using the Drawing Toolbar. If you don’t see this
Toolbar, use View, Toolbars, Drawing to make it available.
11. To insert a table or graph from Excel, create the table or graph and highlight or select it in
Excel. You can then click on Insert, Chart or Insert, Object.
12. To print the final version on a single piece of “11 X 8.5” paper to check it over before doing the
final large size, go to File, Print, Slides and click the check box to Scale to fit paper (only if
you’ve blown it up to its final size)
13. If you want to see what the poster will look like in its final format, enlarge the page size. From
the File menu, select Page Setup, then Custom from the Slides Sized for box. Select the
height as 35 inches and the Width as 48 inches. Or select the Height as 56 inches, the longest
length that you can get. Be sure the slide is oriented Landscape. Then OK.
Instructions for Using an Existing Presentation as a Template
Begin adding your information into the template as you delete the old information.
Feel free to rearrange text boxes or any graphs, lines, arrows and so on.
Tricky Parts
If you work in tiny format, if can sometimes be a challenge changing font size below 8
point. To change a font size from 8 point to 5 point, go to Format, Font, Size, then
key in 5 manually