Tips-and-Tricks-for-Poster-Displays-APAC-2015

Get creave!11Posters are a visual mediumA poster is not a paper. Aim for a total of no more than 800 words. Avoid long blocks of text containingmore than 10 sentences, and keep sentences short. The eye does not follow lines of text on posters asaccurately as it does in a book or journal. Readers can lose the thread of long sentences, and few peoplewill read long screeds of text.Reduce your word countTry these &ps to minimise text:∗ Use phrases, sentence lists and bullet points.∗ Use ac&ve sentences – they’re more engaging and usually shorter than passive sentences.∗ Cut out words that add no meaning: ‘We repeated the test again a1er three months had passed.’∗ Use headings and figure &tles to help convey your message.Use pictures and diagramsA poster should contain at least one picture or diagram.A picture is worth 1,000 words! Think about whether some of your text would be beer replaced with apicture.ORHand-held echo (HHE)Portable, hand operated, baery poweredechocardiographs can be used as a valuabletool in screening cardiovascular diseases toassess systolic ventricular func&on and in pa-&ents with conges&ve heart failure to guideini&al treatment. It can be used by individualphysicians. The use of HHE was tested as partof the heart failure pathway.Figure 1: Hand-held echos used onward rounds aid the idenficaon ofheart diseaseIf using photographs, ensure that you use high resolu&on images that are large enough to be viewed froma distance. A simple test to check the quality of your image is to paste it into PowerPoint, expand it to themargins of the slide and print it on A4. This will ‘blow up’ your image to a large size and will show you if itbecomes granulated when enlarged. If the image isn’t clear, either be mindful of this when choosing theimage size in your poster or look for an alterna&ve image to use. This same principle can be used forphotographs, images of graphs/charts, diagrams and clipart files.