Good Points to Follow to Make Posters

• Tools and Size
  • Use Scribus unless you really like 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  • Three schools at Victoria offer colour poster printing (this information might be slightly out of date!):
    • 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). This printer might be out of action as of 2011 - please confirm and let Alex know if it is still working/not working. * Laminating
  • To laminate your poster see Clear Film Laminating: http://www.mapshop.co.nz/ .

Samples of Posters

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 on Posters

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

Links on Presentations

• http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Main/PhDFullRegistrationConfirmationPolicy
• http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.htm
• http://www.victoria.ac.nz/st_services/slss/studyhub/handouts/Oral-presentations.pdf
• http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/Dept/Tips/present/comms.htm
• http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Preparing_talks/120.html

Presentations given to Students

• 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

• ECS_Gilrs_on_Presentations_and_PhD_Proposal.pptx: How to Give a Presentation (for your PhD Proposal) in 2011

• ECS_Gilrs_on_Presentations_and_PhD_Proposal.pdf: How to Give a Presentation (for your PhD Proposal) in 2011 (PDF Version)

• Generic_Ownership_OOPSLA_2006.ppt: Sample Talk by Alex from a long time ago...