Secrets of Impactful Poster Design & Presentation / 26-5-PD-5

Content

A guide to the essential steps to designing a powerful poster. What has visual impact – and what to avoid. Practical, easy-to-apply tips to create a professional standard of output. Integrating the principles of visual communication to poster design, and the course leader’s recommendation for easiest software to learn.

• Starting right: writing and editing the text to provide a powerful focus
• Essentials of visual logic
• Finding the optimal layout
• Principles of ‘Grid Design’
• Software tools: Powerpoint, Adobe illustrator, Corel Draw
• Powerpoint techniques and brief top tips tutorial
• Use of Imagery: What works, and what doesn’t – with examples
• Graphic Design or hand-drawn illustration?
• Photoshop and other photo-manipulation software
• How to test the poster and obtain feedback
• Creating Interactive (e.g. PICO) academic posters

 

Using a lively mix of practical exercises, software tutorial, discussion, and group work this workshop examines the essentials of creating an impactful and memorable poster design. On the third day of this workshop, which follows one week after the first two, each participant has the opportunity to present a poster in an online environment for the feedback of the group.

 

Participation

Doctoral researchers (all disciplines) of the Berlin University Alliance.

Before booking a workshop: please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration to receive a certificate. Check our terms and conditions.

• Need to cancel your participation? : possible up to 14 days in advance
• Log into your DRS account on our booking platform www.drs.fu-berlin.de
• Click on "My course list"
• Choose the course in question andgo to "course details"  
• Click on "cancel booking". 

 

Further Information 

Doctoral programs calculate credit points based on the number of work units earned through workshop participation.
Each work unit represents 45 minutes of workshop time, and 8 work units equal 0.5 credit points.
For mini workshops (less than 8 work units), credits are calculated proportionally based on the work units.
Please note: To be eligible for credit transfer, you must accumulate enough work units from short workshops.
For example, attending two 3-hour workshops results in 8 work units (2 workshops x 4 work units each), which equals 0.5 credits.

 

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Workshops free of charge at the BUA partner institutions: Graduate Studies Support Program.