Poster Design Workshop Materials
- 60 Second Poster EvaluationLink to poster evaluation criteria from NCSU
- Poster Exercise MaterialsDon't have a poster work on? Find a free PPT poster template and then use these materials to try making your own poster!
- Cornell logos from Cornell Brand CenterNOTE: These are high quality logos in Adobe Illustrator format. You can either export them from Illustrator into a file format like TIFF or PNG. Other Cornell units may have their own branding guidelines (e.g. https://brand.cce.cornell.edu/) as well
- Converted Cornell logosCornell logos in png and jpg format
Useful poster design resources
- Colin Purrington's Designing conference postersGreat (and funny) guide to designing scientific posters. Also has useful poster templates
- NCSU's tutorial on poster designExcellent tutorial on creating and presenting scientific posters
- Sample posters from exerciseSome of the sample posters from NCSU used in our exercise
- Cornell Center for Materials Research guide to poster design and printingThis site has great step by step poster design tutorials and templates in the lefthand navigation bar.
- UNC graduate school's poster and presentation resourcesGood roundup of links to poster making and presentation advice
- Better PostersUseful poster critique and tips blog
- Eposters.netLibrary of ePosters
- How to make an effective e-posterMasters K, Gibbs T and Sandars J. MedEdPublish Year, issue: 1 http://dx.doi.org/10.15694/mep.2015.004.0001
- How to design an award-winning conference posterTips from Animate Your Science, a service that creates graphical and video abstracts
Image Resources
Looking for images, audio, and video tools and resources you can freely use? Try these guides and resources.
- Creative Commons SearchCreative Commons is a nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. You can also find CC searches in Google Images (under the gear icon in Advanced Search) and other sites like Flickr
- Google Images Advanced SearchIn Google Advanced Search you can choose a large image size, a particular image type or color, public domain images from .gov sites, or Creative Commons licensed images under usage rights.
- Finding Public Domain and Creative Commons Media guide from HarvardA guide to freely usable image, audio, and video resources from Meg Kribble at the Harvard Law School Library.
- Public Domain and Creative Commons: A Guide to Works You Can Use FreelyWritten and managed by Tammy Ravas, Visual and Performing Arts Librarian at the University of Montana, this guide provides definitions, sources, and tips for using copyrighted or non-copyrighted works.
- The Noun ProjectContains symbols and icons which you can download for a fee.
VIDEO: How to create a better research poster in less time (including templates)
Want to test a new way of making posters? Try the method (with templates) below!
VIDEO: Making an academic research poster-the how to
This useful 10 minute tutorial from Jerry Overmyer from the University of Northern Colorado's Mathematics and Science Teaching (MAST) Institute walks you through the basics of adding text and images to a PowerPoint poster template.