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POSTERs


What is poster?
•A large-format poster is a big piece of paper or image featuring
•a short title
•an introduction to your topic
•an overview of your approach (body)
•your results in graphical form (conclusion)
•a list of references (bibliography)
•if all text is kept to a minimum (500-1000 words), a person could fully read your poster in 5-10
minutes.
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INTRODUCTION

Learning outcomes
•Translate what you learnt in lectures and discussions into own research
•Find an original topic and conduct independent research on it
•Turn your findings into a brief visual and oral presentation
•Think about most important information to include in a poster
•Be able to present your poster
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Questions to ask
•What is the key message from the research that you want to highlight to your audience?
•Not just the work of art/artist, but the message
•Along with the main image, what other material (texts, graphs, other images) do you need to
support the poster theme?
•Keep it simple. Choose a lead image and supporting material.
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•Who is the audience?
•Us
•What medium?
•Handmade collage or software (PowerPoint, Adobe inDesign, Illustrator, Canva…).
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Practicalities
•What size should your poster be?
•A2 ideally, landscape or portrait
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•How many words?
•1000 words max. Think of the font and size.
•What colours will you use?
•Plan it.
•You have the idea; how will you present it visually and in an interesting way?
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•Keep it simple. Limit text, focus on images but explain.
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•Sketch it out.
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Deveton Boakye

Some resources
•Tips for poster creation
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•Art and Humanities posters
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•Examples
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•Software suggestions
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