CREATE AN
EFFECTIVE
POSTER


Will G. Hopkins ©1997

This document was created originally as a multi-panel poster. The text under each heading and the figures were on separate panels, as illustrated at right.

This article represents text and graphics updated from a poster I presented at the 1995 annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. You can download a zip-compressed version in rich text format. You can also download a zip-compressed file containing two templates for creating poster panels with PowerPoint 4: one each for landscape and portrait orientations of the panels.

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Last updated 26 Feb 1997

ABSTRACT

Background. Posters are a more relaxed and efficient medium than slides. Elements of an effective poster include:

   
BACKGROUND

Got some good results? Make them even better by presenting them well. If you're giving a poster, cool! Posters can be better than slides. The atmosphere is more relaxed. The author can talk one-to-one with interested people. And as a viewer you can skip posters on uninteresting topics, but you have to sit through a boring talk.

Here's my advice on how to make your poster effective. Most of it is obvious, but some is new and may surprise you.

All data shown in this poster are fictitious.

   
CONCISE CONTENT

   
PLAIN LANGUAGE

  
CLEAR GRAPHICS

  

   
FEW TABLES

   
RELEVANT NUMBERS

   
BIG PLAIN FONTS

   
LOTS OF COLOR

   
VISUAL IMPACT

   
EFFICIENT MOUNTING

CONCLUSIONS


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