GIS Poster Info

• You will print and mount your poster in the GIS lab, Tisch Library Map Room – posters must be plotted by 5pm, May 7th

• Try to get it finished and printed earlier!

• A lab assistant must send the plot - Lab assistant schedule – http://gis.tufts.edu

• Upload you poster and paper to Student Work Zone by May 7 midnight

GIS Poster Info

• Posters should be 30x40 (either orientation is fine)

• You will mount your poster on poster board we will provide

• We will also provide glue, etc.

GIS Poster ExpoMay 8 2013

3:30-5

Examples online at http://gis.tufts.edu

Original presentation by Melanie St. James

Senior Interactive Media Designer

UIT - Academic Technology

Modifications by Barbara Parmenter, 3/4/2011

Information Design Matters!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mswanson/archive/2007/05/06/bad-design-by-example.aspx

•Readability improves:•comprehension•retention•reading speed•reading persistence

Goal: Maximize Readability

Capture your audience!

VISUAL HIEARCHY:

Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop

Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop

Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop

Your design tools:

•Typography•Layout•Color•Images

Design concepts

•Alignment•Grouping•Contrast

Examples from Robin Williams’ Design Workshop

About type

My GIS Poster

A quick design workshop

My GIS PosterA quick design workshop

My GIS PosterA quick design workshop

Corporate Logos Redesignhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/weekinreview/31marsh.html

Times New Roman ArialT T

Serif vs. Sans Serif

Arial / Helvetica

Print fonts

Times New Roman

Sans Serif

Serif

Comic Sans…

Story of Comic Sans: http://www.connare.com/comic.htm(Now Chalkboard on Apple OS)

http://www.typebrewer.org

http://www.typebrewer.org

Visual Hierarchy

San serif Arial headers, serif Times New Roman body text

The bold, the underlined and the italicized

Readability: Column Width

The “alphabet-and-a-half ” line length rule:

the ideal line length at 39 characters

regardless of type size.

left align (GOOD!) Justified (BAD!)

bullets

Bullets – give them some space

Font size

aa

Font Size Sheet

On GIS Poster Design web site

A few words about

COLOR

http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html

http://www.colorbrewer.org

Interactive color wheel - http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Sessions College Color Wheelhttp://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator

When working with images in a page layout software:

What you see is NOT what you get

Resolution:Caution:

Format:

Working with Images

300 dpiweb images are 72 dpiSnagIt - software to increase image resolution

TIFF (can yield large files) GIF (solid colors, text) JPG (photos)

http://creativecommons.org/image/

Tips for poster maps

• Export just maps with legend, north arrow, and scale

• Use Publisher to put in titles and other explanatory text

• No need to repeat scale, north arrow for maps that are same scale and layout

Tips for poster maps

• Export your map at the size it will be on the poster or bigger!

• Make sure everything – legend, labels, etc. is readable from 3 feet away

• Work with legend separately if need be to make it readable

Types of GIS posters

• Technique / Method Demonstration• Advocacy • Academic Science Conference • Data Collection and Design

Design Process:

• Be in charge of your design decisions:

• color palette, fonts

• Identify most important elements & highlight them

• Take away anything that doesn’t directly support your MAIN IDEA

• Squint at your poster: what do you see?

?Which software to use

MS PowerPoint

Adobe InDesign

MS Publisher

12 columns

3 main columns: 4 / 4 / 4