Poster Power:
Designing & Delivering your Academic Poster with Impact
|
3 x 3 hr. webinars
|
|
Trainer: Mark Edwards
|
Standing out in a world of grey boxes 1 min 10 secs
A guide to the essential steps to designing a powerful, memorable poster. What has visual impact – and what to avoid. Practical, easy-to-apply tips to create a high standard of output. Quick wins for getting the best out of PowerPoint to obtain a professional finish. Day three of the course follows one week after the first two days of tutorial and is a ‘mini conference’ where you have a chance to present your re-designed poster for feedback and give a brief practice presentation.
Starting right: writing and editing the text to provide a powerful focus
Essentials of visual logic: Balance, emphasis and prioritisation
Finding the optimum layout. Fixing the ‘too much data’ problem
Principles of ‘Grid Design’;
PowerPoint techniques and brief top tips tutorial
Use of imagery: What works, and what doesn’t – with examples
The importance of the title block, both in words and images
Presentation of data: re-artworking data for maximum impact. Designing infographics.
Colour Choice: effective use of ‘compulsory’ templates; psychological associations, essentials of colour theory
Top tips for both live and online poster presentation, and leveraging the differences.
Creating dynamic Interactive and animated presentations of static posters.
Using a lively mix of design theory and practical techniques, software tutorial, examination and discussion of over one hundred posters, and group evaluation work, this course examines the essentials of creating an impactful and memorable poster design. We also examine top tips for presenting your poster, both live and online.
This course includes the opportunity to show your own poster design, and give a brief practice presentation to obtain feedback from your colleagues and individual advice from the coach.
A guide to the essential steps to designing a powerful, memorable poster. What has visual impact – and what to avoid. Practical, easy-to-apply tips to create a high standard of output. Quick wins for getting the best out of PowerPoint to obtain a professional finish. Day three of the course follows one week after the first two days of tutorial and is a ‘mini conference’ where you have a chance to present your re-designed poster for feedback and give a brief practice presentation.
Starting right: writing and editing the text to provide a powerful focus
Essentials of visual logic: Balance, emphasis and prioritisation
Finding the optimum layout. Fixing the ‘too much data’ problem
Principles of ‘Grid Design’;
PowerPoint techniques and brief top tips tutorial
Use of imagery: What works, and what doesn’t – with examples
The importance of the title block, both in words and images
Presentation of data: re-artworking data for maximum impact. Designing infographics.
Colour Choice: effective use of ‘compulsory’ templates; psychological associations, essentials of colour theory
Top tips for both live and online poster presentation, and leveraging the differences.
Creating dynamic Interactive and animated presentations of static posters.
Using a lively mix of design theory and practical techniques, software tutorial, examination and discussion of over one hundred posters, and group evaluation work, this course examines the essentials of creating an impactful and memorable poster design. We also examine top tips for presenting your poster, both live and online.
This course includes the opportunity to show your own poster design, and give a brief practice presentation to obtain feedback from your colleagues and individual advice from the coach.
