Tips and Techniques for Making an Effective
Symposium Poster
Erik Sloane, Nannie Street, Milagros Chery, Ted Courtois, Sharron Dwight, Catesby Saunders
Technology Learning Center, University of Richmond, VA 23173
Abstract
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The Technology Learning Center is located on the
third floor of Boatwright Library. Poster printing
appointments for the 2010 Student Research
Symposium are to be scheduled online. At the end
of registration, students presenting a poster will be
emailed the link to sign up for printing
appointments. Posters will not be printed without
an appointment. If you have any questions or
problems creating your poster, please email
tlc@richmond.edu to have someone walk you
through the process.
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Design Recommendations
Fig 1. Ryland Hall
This PowerPoint file is designed to create a 56x34
inch poster. The margin around the outside is 1in
and each of the design elements are spaced 1in
apart. Each of the text boxes are 17.3 inches wide.
To edit the length of the text boxes, simply click on
the bottom edge and drag it up or down. When you
have finished your poster, please make sure that
you have removed any of the place holding text
from this template.
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This outline can be used by all
departments when creating
presentation posters. Phasellus
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vestibulum. Proin vitae est sit
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quam eu massa varius et dapibus ligula tempor.
The image shown here is a
screen shot of the University website, the inspiration
for this Poster design.
Please feel free to edit the
Layout of this poster in any
way.
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Requirements
 We recommend PowerPoint for our users
since it is available in all public labs on campus.
The poster can be created in PowerPoint or
Photoshop, but if a different application is
needed, please contact mfoster2@richmond.edu
before creating the poster. We cannot print
Keynote posters.
 The final size of the poster file needs to be
fewer than 400 MB.
 The typical size of a poster is 34 inches by 56
inches. One side must be 59 inches or less.
 Late appointments will not be printed and
will be rescheduled as time allows.
 Stay with your poster until it is finished
printing and do not leave your poster in the TLC.
The TLC is not responsible for posters left in the
lab.
 Expect to print only 1 poster per appointment
time. Those with multiple posters should have 1
appointment time per poster.
Suggestions
 Make sure to size your poster before
arranging your text and graphics.
 Please view the poster at 100%. Quite
frequently, people will not see problems in their
poster when they only view the poster at 15% of
actual size.
 We do not recommend using web images
since the quality is too poor to print well.
 If scanning, you may want to use around 300
dpi resolution. When in doubt about quality and
size of an image for a poster, ask a TLC
Consultant on duty for assistance.
 Please be aware that it is not possible for the
poster printer to have every font installed. Please
contact the TLC if you have a special need.
 In PowerPoint, resize images from the corners
of the pictures and not from the sides. Resizing
pictures in PowerPoint from the sides changes
the proportions of the image. Objects may
appear wider or thinner than their original size.
 Bring your poster in a .ppt file format from
PowerPoint and also save it from PowerPoint as
a .tif image file
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• Walks
• Talks
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• Improved
• Faster
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Blew Our
Minds