The document provides tips for designing effective posters, including using design software like Photoshop and InDesign, considering size limitations, choosing complementary fonts and font sizes, using colors effectively, including images, leaving white space, and doing sketches and proofs before finalizing the design. Key recommendations are to focus on one main idea, draw the viewer's attention, and make images easier to absorb than text. Effective use of color, font, white space and images are emphasized.
63. tools
www.feng-gui.com
software
www.koffice.org/kivio/
www.apple.com/iwork
www.microsoft.com/visio
www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
white space
www.logoorange.com/white-space.php
colors
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-
designers-part-1-the-meaning-of-color/
Notas do Editor
you have to attract people to view your poster and disseminate as much as possible in a maximum of 3-5 minutes... you’ll probably get waaaay less than that
PowerPoint at least used to limit you to 56 by 56 inches, you can 2x your poster though!
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
Go to the printer with the ability to change the original on-site, a PDF, a JPG, and a TIFF
When choosing complementary colors, fully saturated colors will offer the highest level of contrast.
Choose good quality images that will not pixelate when you enlarge them.
Choose good quality images that will not pixelate when you enlarge them.
Yellow text on a white background or blue text on a black background, are difficult to read due to the low level of contrast between figure and ground.
Yellow text on a white background or blue text on a black background, are difficult to read due to the low level of contrast between figure and ground.
An occurrence known as 'simultaneous contrast' may happen when opposing colors are placed in close proximity to each other. Text may appear to vibrate, or cast a shadow. Eye strain and fatigue will result if a viewer focuses on a document displaying similar properties for an extended time period.
Some color combinations, such as red text on a blue background, cause illusions when positioned together.
Sensitivity to Colorblind Deficiencies. The Design of visual documents or signage without thought to the overall contrast level between figure and ground can be problematic for people with sight deficiencies. Can not distinguish between RED and GREEN. If a visual document uses color to relate important information, insure that no information is lost, or potentially misunderstood, when the color is not available.