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Rules:
• The poster can be printed using plotters or printers but it should not be
hand written.
• The layout given to you must be followed in all cases.
• Back ground theme is up to you but layout as to what information should
be given and location must follow the guide lines.
• 2 Posters per group is allowed for display.
• Groups will have to present brochure for supporting purpose.
A poster is simply a static, visual medium (usually of the paper and board variety) that you use to
communicate ideas and messages. The difference between poster and oral presentations is that
you should let your poster do most of the 'talking'; that is; the material presented should convey
the essence of your message. However, that does not mean that you can disappear, you have to
'stand-by-your-poster'. Your task as the presenter is to answer questions and provide further
details; to bask in praises or suffer difficult questions; and to convince others that what you have
done is excellent and worthwhile.
• Title page, telling others the title of the project, the people involved in the work and their
affiliation.
• Project Goals of the project stating what you have set out to do, how you have done it,
the key findings and the main results.
• Project Objectives that should include clear statements about the problem that you are
trying to solve, the characteristics that you are trying to discover or the proofs that you are trying
to establish. These should then lead to declarations of project aims and objectives.
• Theory or Methodology section that explains the basis of the technique that you are
using or the procedure that you have adopted in your study. You should also state and justify any
assumptions, so that your results could be viewed in the proper context.
• Results section that you use to show illustrative examples of the main results of the work.
• Conclusion Section listing the main findings of your investigation.
• Further Work section that should contain your recommendations and thoughts about
how the work could be progressed; other tests that could be applied, etc.
You therefore have to present certain pieces of information but have limited space. So spend a
few moments or even hours to plan your presentation before you rush away to put pen on paper
or fingers on keyboard. This is very important. Unlike oral presentations, where some ultra-
smooth talkers may be able to divert attention from a poorly planned presentation, with posters,
poor planning is there for all to see.
Planning is crucial if you do not want to be afflicted by the 'headless chicken' syndrome. There
are several stages in planning a presentation.
Layout includes
Choose colors that complement each other. Certain colors, like certain yellows, etc., are
difficult to see and read. Text and background colors should complement each other. Make
sure your foreground color (text) is clear and soft on the eyes when combined with the
background color. Let's look at the following examples:
Text size & font type are a very important aspects when designing a poster. They will determine
whether your audience will be able to read your poster with ease. If not, all your hard work was
for nothing.
• It is not easy to read words that are in capital letters, e.g. COMMUNICATION STYLES
vs Communication styles
• To attract your audience, they must be able to read your poster from a distance (1 - 3m)
therefore font size is extremely important.
• Do not use more than 2 font types
• Too many font types distracts, especially when they appear on the same sentence
• Fonts that are easy on the eyes are Times-Roman and Arial.
This is Times-Roman
This is Arial
• Titles and headings should appear larger than other text, but not too large. The
text should also be legible from a distance, say from 1.5m to 2m.
• Do not use all UPPER CASE type in your posters. It can make the material
difficult to read. Just compare the two sentences below:
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS LINE WHERE ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE IN
UPPER CASE?
What do you think of this line, where only the first character of the first word is in upper
case?
• Use underlined text, the bold face or italics or combinations to emphasis words
and phrases.
• If you use bold italicized print for emphasis, then underlining is not necessary -
overkill!
Tips for poster design
Technical guidelines: Visuals
Graphics, photographs, diagrams, etc., are very important components of your poster. They
will add interesting visuals to the poster, helping you to get your message across.
• Don't add unnecessary or too many visuals to your poster - this will clutter your poster
and make it too "busy".
• Enlarge and crop your visuals, if necessary, by zooming into the relevant part of the
picture/visual.
• Make sure that your visuals are clear and of good quality. There are different ways to do
this, depending on whether it is a graphic, photograph, diagram, etc. Look at the following
examples:
A picture is worth a thousand words … (but only if it is drawn properly and used appropriately)
• Graphs
choose graphs types that are appropriate to the information that you want
to display
annotations should be large enough, and the lines of line-graphs should be
thick enough so that they may be viewed from a distance do not attempt to have more than six
line-graphs on a single plot
Instead of using lines of different thickness, use contrasting colored lines
or different line styles to distinguish between different lines in multi-line graphs.
Multi-line plots or plots with more than one variable should have a legend
relating the plotted variable to the color or style of the line.
Technical guidelines: Equations
• should be kept to a minimum
• present only the necessary and important equations
• should be large enough
• should be accompanied by nomenclature to explain the significance of each
variable
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