Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Director, Communication across the Curriculum;Professor, English

Designing Posters in Mathematics

Just for fun…

Source: http://mathematicianspictures.com/

Templates/Commercial Production

http://www.postersession.com/templates.html

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We hope you find this template useful! This one is set up to yield a 48x48 poster when we print it at 200%. You can also use it for any poster that needs to be square, and we’ll scale it to the size you need.

We’ve put in the headings we usually see in these posters, you can copy and paste and change to your hearts content! We’ve left our text in red so you’ll know what text you have brought in, and be sure to get rid of anything we put in. We suggest you use black text against a light background so that it is easy to read. Background color can be changed in format-background-drop down color menu.

The boxes around the text will automatically fit the text you type, and if you click on the text, you can use the little handles that appear to stretch or squeeze the text boxes to whatever size you want. You can simply delete the lines by going to format-colors and lines and selecting no line.

The dotted lines through the center of the piece will not print, they are for alignment. You can move them around by clicking and holding them, and a little box will tell you where they are on the page. Use them to get your pictures or text boxes aligned together.

How to bring things in from Excel and Word

Excel- select the chart, hit edit-copy, and then edit-paste into PowerPoint. The chart can then be stretched to fit as required. If you need to edit parts of the chart, it can be ungrouped. Watch out for scientific symbols used in imported charts, which PowerPoint will not recognize as a used font and may print improperly if we don’t have the font installed on our system.

Word- select the text to be brought into PowerPoint, hit edit-copy, then edit-paste the text into a new or existing text block. This text is editable. You can change the size, color, etc. in format-text. We suggest you not put shadows on smaller text.

Scans

We need images to be 72 to100 dpi in their final size, or use a rule of thumb of 2 to 4 megabytes of uncompressed .tif file per square foot of image. For instance, a 3x5 photo that will be 6x10 in size on the final poster should be scanned at 200 dpi. Remember that this template is set up at half size, so anything that is 3x5 on the template will be 6x10 on the final piece.

We prefer that you import tif images into PowerPoint. Images that are greater than 16 megabytes will show on the screen, but will not print. JPEG files are OK, but if you can convert them to tif we prefer it. The 16 mb limit applies to the image size, and not the compressed file size, of the JPEG.

Preview: To see your in poster in actual size, go to view-zoom-200%. This is a good way to be sure your pictures are going to look OK.

Feedback: If you have comments about how this template worked for you, email to sales@megaprint.com. We listen! Call us at 800-590-7850 if we can help in any way!

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BACKGROUND

PURPOSE AND HYPOTHESIS

MATERIALS AND METHODS RESULTS

CONCLUSIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Instructions from host…

Helpful Links

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm

http://cxc.lsu.edu students “communication examples, tips, guidelines and more” [keyword: “poster”]

Color

• Use a colored background (muted) or

shades of gray to unify your poster

• Typically, use white as the background

for text

• Black is best for text, except on graphs

• Don’t use too much color--

it can emphasize or detract

Text

• Use a consistent font

• Set font size hierarchically for

• headings

• Avoid big blocks of prose

• Avoid the continuous use of

CAPITALS

Graphics

• Try to balance words and images

• Aim for readability from 6 feet away

• Use no more than three or four charts, figures,

or tables

• Photographs should be relevant, mentioned in

text as figures, or captioned

• Include clear labels and captions on all charts,

figures, and tables

Layout

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5

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Sample Headings: Health SciencesCombination 1 Combination 2

Author/Title/Affiliation Objectives

Data Sources

Study Setting

Study Design

Data Collection

Principal Findings

Conclusions Funding Source

Author/Title/Affiliation

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Funding Source

Combination 3 Combination 4

Context

Objective

Design

Settings

Participants/Subjects

Intervention

Main Outcome Measures

Results Discussion Conclusions Funding Source

Author/Title/Affiliation

Introduction

Research Question Background Importance

Methods

Study Sites

Study Population

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Findings

Conclusions

Implications

Funding Source

Combination 5 Combination 6

Author/Title/Affiliation Background

Methods

Results Conclusions Funding Source

Author/Title/Affiliation Research Objectives Background

Study Design

Results

Conclusion

Relevance

Future Research Funding Source

Adapted from Health Services Module 590A, “Knowledge Management in the Health Sciences,” University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

CxC: Visual Communication Criteria

SAMPLE POSTER: for discussion…

Source: Jacquelyn R. Hansen, MPH, International Health Program, Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

Beauty of Mathematics

Sources: http://www.arbelos.co.uk; The Beauty of Mathematics, poster collection, A.K. Jobbings, 2004; http://mathematicianpictures.com.

Additional ReferencesThe Most Useful of All (from which this list was taken): Purrington, C.B. 2006. Advice on designing scientific posters.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm. Accessed 11/1/2006.

Block, S. 1996. The DOs and DON'Ts of poster presentation. Biophysical Journal 71:3527-3529.

Briscoe, M.H. 1996. Preparing Scientific Illustrations: A Guide to Better Posters, Presentations, and Publications , 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Day, R.A. 1994. How To Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 4th ed. Oryx Press, Phoenix.

Keegan, D.A., and S.L. Bannister. 2003. Effect of colour coordination of attire with poster presentation on poster popularity. Canadian Medical Association Journal 169:1291-1292.

Matthews, J.R., J.M. Bowen, and R.W. Matthews. 1996. Successful Science Writing: A Step-by-Step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Pechenik, J.A. 2004. A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 5th edition. HarperCollins College Publishers, New York.

Rigden, C. 1999. ‘The eye of the beholder’—designing for colour-blind users. British Telecommunications Engineering 17:2-6.

Tufte, E.R. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press, Connecticut.

Wolcott, T.G. 1997. Mortal sins in poster presentations or, How to give the poster no one remembers. Newsletter of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Fall:10-11.

Woolsey, J. D. 1989. Combating poster fatigue: how to use visual grammar and analysis to effect better visual communications. Trends in Neurosciences 12:325-332.