Creating effective posters

Poster sessions are all about engagement and using your poster as a visual aid while conversing with other interested parties. Posters are not stand-alone documents.

• • Posters should be clear and clean, text-spare, but still informative. Good advice taken from here:

    • Important information should be readable from about 10 feet away

    • Title is short and draws interest

    • Word count of about 300 to 800 words

    • Text is clear and to the point

    • Use of bullets, numbering, and headlines make it easy to read

    • Effective use of graphics, color and fonts

    • Consistent and clean layout

    • Includes acknowledgments, your name and institutional affiliation

  • A detailed guide to posters, complete with templates for layout.

• Here is an example of a graphics-rich, text-spare poster:

• • Or, going one step further how about this? Some are calling it "Poster 2.0" and here are some templates along these lines.