Workshop: Academic Poster Design

Contents
Academic posters are a useful communication method to present your PhD project, engage people in fruitful discussions and gain new input for your research. To suit that purpose, a poster needs to be carefully designed, both from the contents’ side and the visual appearance.
Starting with the content, we will extract the key messages from your projects. All the way from the research question at hand, to the results and finally to the discussion and open questions. Keeping the target audience in mind, we will determine what should be on the poster and how we can communicate it efficiently.
With the aim in mind to reduce text to an absolute minimum, we will focus next on the visuals that should go on the poster. These can include photographs, maps, schematic drawings, diagrams or other data visualizations.
Having determined the contents, we will address the graphic design both of the individual visuals as well as of the poster as a whole. You will learn how to use a grid and white space, choose colors, fonts and font sizes etc. to produce an aesthetically pleasing and effective poster.
Between the first and the second day you will have time to work on your individual poster. With the printed posters we will conduct a mini poster session and train how to give a concise poster presentation. Video recording is an optional add-on for those who feel comfortable. Everybody will receive feedback from both the trainer and peers.

Requirements
During the workshop each participant will design his / her poster about his / her own project. You need a PC with a software to create your poster in (Powerpoint is fine), text and figures (diagrams, charts, schematics, photos etc.) describing your project. Poster drafts are welcome as well. On day 2 you need to bring your poster in print.

If you are interested in the CMM, please send an email to imme.sakwa-waltz@chemie.uni-halle.de