Guidelines for Creating a Poster
The poster should be a visual presentation of your abstract. You are encouraged to take a creative approach to your poster design. there are no mandatory headings or minimum font sizes, however, the following guidelines may help you create an effective poster.
1.Title and size
The title should be the same as in the submitted abstract. Include the title of your presentation at the top of the poster with the name of the author/s and institutional affiliation.The poster must be no less than A1 and no larger than A0 size (AO size is 841mm x 1189mm). The preferred orientation fora poster is portrait.
2. Fonts, graphics and images
The poster should be easily readable at a distance of two metres. Use UPPER and lower case for general content as the use of allcapital text is difficult to read. Avoid using a mixture of type/font styles.24 to 32 font size single spaced is recommended. The text should be concise and easy to read.Consider varying font sizes to emphasise particularly important text. The message that your poster contains should be clear and understandable without the requirement of oral explanation.
After the title, the two most important panels are the Introduction and the Conclusion. On the basis of these two panels, a reader will decide whether to consider the poster details and perhaps talk to the presenter. These panels need to be very simple, concise and visually attractive.
If an idea and/or results can be expressed with graphics then it probably should be. Avoid large tables of data. Results should be in line with those originally submitted in your abstract.
Use pictures, symbols and colour. Figure legends are essential and should be short but informative. If using graphs, they should have a short heading. For visual effect, we recommend that graphs be no smaller than 12cm x 18cm and photographs be no smaller than 12cm x 18cm.
Use the space to attract your audience for discussion, not to present complex details of methods and results.As an alternative to providing extensive textual detail, you could produce a handout with your extra text and keep you poster to the essentials.
Use eye-catching images or a provocative slogan to attract delegates to your poster. Want to glue something to your poster, add augmented reality, or make a poster with almost no text? Go right ahead. If you feel aesthetically inept, consider scouring Google for inspiration from poster templates, e.g.
3. Generating and continuing the discussion
While it is true that your poster will need to make sense on its own, depth of engagement comes from attendees interacting with you. Consider how your poster will help you in a range of discussions. How will it help your ‘sales pitch’? How will it assist in explaining the difficult concepts underpinning your work?Consider bringing business cards, mini-printouts of the poster or copies of relevant articles you’ve written. Make it easy for attendees to find your online resources, through a short web address (or provide a QR code they can scan with their phone to get further information (free from