Academic Poster Design

Share Embed


Descrição do Produto

Academic Poster Design Dr Jennifer Ferreira

Outline Session designed to provide an introduction to creating academic posters. 1) Poster design • What makes a good academic poster? • Deciding on content • Referencing • Design options and style issues 2) Infographics • What are infographics? • Why use infographics? • Tools and online platforms • Creating your own infographics

Academic posters Session designed to provide an introduction to creating academic posters.

‘Posters are a chance to show off your work and to network with colleagues, but only if the design is easy on the eye.’ Powell, K (2012) Nature 483: 113-115.

What is the purpose of academic posters?

What makes a good academic poster?

You have a selection of academic posters in your pack.

Identify: • 5 good features of some of these posters; • 5 things which could be improved in these posters

What makes an effective poster?

What makes a good academic poster? Should be readable 2 metres away

Title should be short and draw interest

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

Text is clear and to the point

Limit the word count

Consistent and clean layout Effective use of graphics, colour and fonts

Examples of best practice?

http://colinpurrington.com/2012/example-of-bad-scientific-poster/

The content: audience You need to get the academic content right. Who will your audience be? • Specialist • Related • General

Content: Amount of Text

Content: Format Title: the biggest text Heading This is an example sentence. Your opening text would go here. Heading This is another example sentence. Sub heading This is the final example sentence.

Content: Format Cafes in the circular economy

.

There are a range of examples where cafés are becoming more than simply spaces of consumption. Repair cafés represent one example: http://repaircafe.org/. The goal of the repaid café is to reduce waste, maintain and pass on knowledge about repairing and strengthening communities. The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have coffee. Existing Research Existing research on cafes is sporadic, but I have made an attempt to start collecting relevant literature (key articles are listed at the end of this document). An ESRC project, “Cappuccino Community” conducted by Eric Laurier and Chris Philo (Laurier and Philo, 2005) ran from 2003-2005 produced a number of outputs around the use of cafes spaces – it was largely a study of human behaviour in café spaces, and they used a range of methods to explore how these spaces were used, and the different roles people play in cafés.

Cafes in the circular economy There are a range of examples where cafés are becoming more than simply spaces of consumption. Repair cafés represent one example: http://repaircafe.org/. The goal of the repaid café is to reduce waste, maintain and pass on knowledge about repairing and strengthening communities. The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have coffee.

Existing Research Existing research on cafes is sporadic, but I have made an attempt to start collecting relevant literature (key articles are listed at the end of this document). An ESRC project, “Cappuccino Community” conducted by Eric Laurier and Chris Philo (Laurier and Philo, 2005) ran from 2003-2005 produced a number of outputs around the use of cafes spaces – it was largely a study of human behaviour in café spaces, and they used a range of methods to explore how these spaces were used, and the different roles people play in cafés.

Content: Alignment Line spacing = 0.9 The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have coffee.

Line spacing = 1 The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have coffee.

Line spacing =1.1 The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have coffee.

Content: Alignment

The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have

coffee.

The first Dutch repair café was opened in 2009 and there are now locations all over the world including Germany, the US, Latvia, Brazil, Italy, Canada. They represent places where you can bring your broken items (electronics, clothing, tools) and have them repaired by volunteers – and also have coffee.

Content: Formatting • Use a maximum of 2 fonts for your poster

• Set headings in bold • Use italics ,underlining and CAPITALS sparingly

• Break up any large areas of text with subheadings • Remember that the text needs to be visible from 2 metres

Prepare your images

Images and Copyright Flickr Creative Commons: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Flickr: The Commons https://www.flickr.com/commons Google Advanced Image Search https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Graphs

30 25

25 20

Series1 Series2

10

Axis title

20 15

15

Series1

Series2

10

5

5

0 A

B

C

D

E

0 A

B

C Axis title

D

E

Tables A

B

C

D

E

1

25

23

17

10

2

2

20

22

10

12

15

3

21

12

5

23

15

4

5

14

6

9

17

A

B

C

D

E

1

25

23

17

10

2

2

20

22

10

12

15

3

21

12

5

23

15

4

5

14

6

9

17

Layout

Title, authors, contact details Introduction

Graph c Results

Method

Image

Conclusion

Table

c References

Layout

Title, authors, contact details Introduction

Graph c Results

Method

Image

Conclusion

Table

c References

Layout

c

c

Layout

“A clean layout speaks to an uncluttered mind, and that's who you want to talk to at meetings” Colin Purrington, Evolutionary Biologist

c

c

Colour scheme Blue on red appears blurry to the eye.

Yellow on white is hard to read.

Red on Blue appears blurry to the human eye.

White on black can sometimes be useful.

Checking the details • Have you checked for typos? • Have you used headings to orient readers and convey major points? • Have you broken your poster up into sections? • Have you displayed all your graphs, pictures, photographs in context? • Have you included your full contact information? • Have you acknowledged al your contributors? • Have you included names and logos of funding organisations? • Have you included references? • Have you checked it is the right size?

Where to start? Key Questions • What is the most interesting or important issue/finding from my research I want to display in the poster? Microsoft PowerPoint

Adobe Illustrator

• What kind of information can I convey on the poster? • How can I visually share my research with the audience? Should I use graphs, images, diagrams? Microsoft Publisher

Inkscape

A short video: planning

http://www.nuigalway.ie/remedi/poster/design1_layout.html

Online resources: • Guide to Creating Academic Posters Using Microsoft PowerPoint https://www.stir.ac.uk/media/schools/is/documents/CreatingAcademicPost ersUsingPowerPoint.pdf • Making an academic research poster using Power Point (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqgjgwIXadA#t=512

• Poster Design Handbooks: http://www.nuigalway.ie/remedi/poster/media/Poster_Design_Manual.pdf • Postgraduate Poster Support website: http://www.nuigalway.ie/remedi/poster/index.html

Infographics

What are infographics? “If you’ve read a newspaper or blog, flipped through a magazine, or used social media recently, you’ve likely come across infographics – those self – contained pictorials that tell you about the gist of the story or concept at a glance” (Smiciklas), 2012

Source: DfID (2013) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/11238612796/sizes/ o/

“An infographic is defined as a visualization of data or ideas that tries to convey complex information to an audience in a manner than can be quickly consumed and easily understood” (Smiciklas, 2012).

Fore more examples see: http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Teaching+resources/Teaching+resources.htm

Rise of the infographic

Source: Google Trends (2015)

A useful tool to disseminate information from research, and teaching materials, in a more visual manner than traditional publication methods.

The tools: Tableau

Source: New Scientist (2011)

Tableau: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ IPad App: Vizable: http://vizable.tableau.com/

All available from the Tableau website

Online Platforms

Infogram http://infogr.am

Online Platforms

Piktochart http://piktochart.com/

Online Platforms

Easelly http://www.easel.ly/blog/

Creating your own infographics Infographics are created for different purposes. Whatever the purpose of the infographic these are some things to consider. Make the theme, story or message clear Infographics need to have a clear theme, story or message. It is important to think about what the purpose of your infographic is and what you want to showcase before you start your design.

Creating your own infographics It is a good idea to story board your idea before you start creating anything digitally.

Creating your own infographics • Consider your audience • Make it visually appealing • Consider the size • Consider simplicity

• Use your data effectively • Consider the impact Source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/an-originalduckumentary-infographic-all-about-ducks/8040/

10 Tips for Creating Infographics 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10)

Sketch out a draft storyboard on paper before creating your digital design. Be clear - have a title that is likely to 'grab' your audience. Be concise - restrict the amount of ideas you are going to include. Try to use different graphics to tell your story. Limit your colour palette to keep the design simple. Limit the amount of font styles used. Try not to use too much text. Only use data relevant to your infographic Use simple graphics and icons that relate to your data If you have a lot of information to convey consider breaking the infographic into sections.

A simple way to create infographics: Microsoft Publisher and Inkscape The Noun Project: http://thenounproject.com/

Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/en/

=

+

Useful books: Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design, 2013, Randy Krum

Infographics for Dummies, 2014 ,Justin Beegel

The Power of Infographics: Using Pictures to Communicate and Connect with Your Audiences, 2012, Mark Smickilas

Visualize This: The Flowing Data Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics, 2011, Nathan Yau Data Points: Visualization That Means Something, 2013, Nathan Yau

Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling, 2012, Jason Lankow, Josh Ritchie and Ross Crooks

Useful websites: A Daily Infographic http://dailyinfographic.com/ The Office for National Statistics Infographic Guidelines: http://theidpblog.files.wordpress.co m/2013/10/infographic-guidelinesv1-0.pdf The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/guardianmasterclasses/data-visualisation-courses http://www.theguardian.com/technology/dat a-visualisation

Cool Infographics: http://www.coolinfographics.com/

Visualizing.org: http://www.visualizing.org/

Questions? [email protected] @jennywrenwatts

Available to download from : https://www.academia.edu/8124962/Infographics_An_Introduction

Lihat lebih banyak...

Comentários

Copyright © 2017 DADOSPDF Inc.