Welcome
to Posters on my wall.com. Here you find all your favorite
posters and art prints. There are over 100,000 posters and art
prints for you to choose from.
Posters are reproductions with an unlimited
edition size that is produced using less expensive inks and
papers than lithographs, and open editions. Posters are not
signed by the artist, as open editions often are, and they
usually contain promotional verbiage that is meant to be exposed
when framed.
A great poster is reliable.
Readability is a measure of how easily the ideas flow from
one item to the next. Text that has lots of grammatical
problems, complex or passive sentence structure, and
misspellings is "hard to read". So don't make type o's and
errors with your poster.
A good poster legible,
If a text is legible, it can be deciphered. For example, an
old book may not be legible if the paper has corroded or the
lettering has faded. A common error in posters presentations is
use of fonts that are too small to be read from 6-10 feet away,
a typical distance for reading a
poster. The text
should be alteast two or three inches high.
A good Poster well organized, and
Spatial organization makes the difference between reaching
95% rather than just 5% of your audience: time spent hunting for
the next idea or piece of data is time taken away from thinking
about the science.
A good poster succint.
Studies show that you have only 11 seconds to grab and retain
your audience's attention so make the punchline prominant and
brief. Most of your audience is going to absorb only the
punchline. Those who are directly involved in related research
will seek you out anyway and chat with you at length so you can
afford to leave out all the details and tell those who
are really interested the "nitty gritty" later.
II. TWO WAYS TO MAKE A POSTER ARE TO
have someone else do it, or
A professional illustrator will ask you about all the items
in this presentation! Although they will execute the work, you
are the final arbiter of the quality and
content of
the poster.
make your own.
Designing the poster elements. Most posters are most quickly
made using some kind of computer software. A word processing
program plus a few graphics packages (e.g. CricketGraph, MacDraw
Pro, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Photoshop for IBM or MacIntosh) are
important tools. If you have not tried computer graphics or are
just starting out, find someone whose poster you like and ask
them what they use and if they like it.
Printing the poster elements. There are many ways to make the
elements or parts of your poster.
Computerized word or graphic images printed on paper.
Laser prints made directly from color slides are
inexpensive, easy to mount poster elements. A printer used for
printing manuscripts for submission is essential (dot matrix is
just not legible).
Cannon color copiers print color laser prints posters either
from a printed image or directly from a slide for less than
$2.00 each (try Kinko's or other commercial copy center).
There are also poster prints with high resolution and a waxy
finish made via a process called "dye sublimation". This process
gives great color but tends to blur edges of the images because
of the way the dye is layered.
Hand drafting can be scanned into a computer and
"prettied up" in a graphics program such as Aldus Freehand.
Photographs can be touched up with Adobe Photoshop.
State exactly what modifications have been made to the images -
it is very easy to alter your data and you must be able to
defend any and all of your changes. 22
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