Good Points to Follow

• Tools and Size
  • Use PowerPoint
  • Bigger is better.
  • A1 page measures 595 x 841 mm or 23.41 x 33.11 inches
  • A0 page measures 841 x 1189 mm or 33.11 x 46.81 inches
• Content
  • Make sure that the posters content flows. Try to make the poster suggest the flow of reading.
  • Make sure that you have more pictures and a lot less text. Much-much less than you are thinking.
  • Remember pictures tell a 1000 words!
  • Explain "what the problem is", "what the hell are you talking about" and "why it is important".
  • Introduction is the most important bit. After reading the first paragraph, people should be able to decide whether it is worth reading the rest of your poster.
  • Practice "talking people through your poster".
• Presentation
  • VUW Web Logos
  • VUW Photo and Logo Library
  • Corporate Victoria University of Wellington colours: RGB = R29 G69 B51 Hex = #1d3d33
  • Faculty of Science Blue Colour: RGB = R0 G100 B196 Hex = #0064c4
• Printing
  • If you need to print from an image file (such as png) try to keep the dpi at 96.
  • Three schools at Victoria offer colour poster printing:
    • School of Architecture. Arthur.Mahon@vuw.ac.nz
    • School of Psychology (Psyc). The printer is located in the Easterfield building. Ask at the school reception. It costs $50 to print A0. Email vijay.ramanujachary@vuw.ac.nz
    • School of Earth Sciences (SES). The printer is called Plotter and it costs $50 to print A0 or $40 to print A1. To use Plotter speak to the admin people in SES (check out their office on the 3rd floor of Cotton - in the "wooden" part).

• Laminating
  • To laminate your poster see Clear Film Laminating (phone 04 385 7911) on the corner of Victoria and Vivian Streets. It cost $15 to print out a poster of size A1.

Samples

Look outside the Elvis postgraduates offices (CO239- CO243) for physical samples.

• Spreadsheet and Corpus Analysis Visualisation - DanielBallinger?'s Sexy Black Beast MCS 2002 Honours poster session
• The Fox - A Tool for Java Object Graph Analysis - AlexPotanin ACM 2002 student research competition poster
• Oppositional Play (JPG) - PippinBarr's dynamic and exciting poster presented at Children Learning in a Digital World 2005.

Links

• ACM Crossroads Magazine - Research Posters 101
• Creating Effective Poster Presentations :: An Effective Poster
• http://www.aspb.org/education/poster.cfm
• http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/students/posterfaq.html

Presentation for Honours Students Link

• Posters_2009.pptx: How to Make Posters Presentation to 400 Level Students in 2009

• Posters_NZCSRSC2010.pptx: How to Make Posters Presentation to NZCSRSC2010 Attendees

• GoodPoster.pdf: GoodPoster.pdf