Poster Design Course

Learn at your own pace and arm yourself with the tools, templates, skills and knowledge to create your own award-winning scientific posters.

Why a Poster Design Course?

It’s clear: every scientific poster you’ve seen has been a confusing and yawn-inducing wall-of-text. You know you need something different: a poster that is as innovative, intelligent and interesting as your work.

But where do you start?

Join Dr Tullio Rossi, Director of Animate Your Science and award-winning science communicator, on a thorough and engaging journey of clear and effective poster design.

From choosing the appropriate software to mastering negative space, take control of your reader’s experience and be remembered.

Learn at your own pace and arm yourself with the tools, templates, skills and knowledge to create your own award-winning scientific posters.

After all, great posters start great conversations.

So, shine a light on your work and stand out from the crowd of boring wall-of-text posters with an eye-catching, engaging and effective scientific poster.

Modules:

Module 1: Course Introduction

• 1.1 About the Instructor

• 1.2 Course Overview

Module 2: What are Scientific Posters?

• 2.1 Why are Most Scientific Posters so Bad?

• 2.2 What is the Purpose of a Scientific Poster?

• 2.3 How to Make it Easy for People to Contact You?

Module 3: How to Write Scientific Posters

• 3.1 Define Your Target Audience

• 3.2 Should a Poster Include an Abstract?

• 3.3 Should a Poster Include References?

• 3.4 How to Make Sure Your Poster Tells a Story

• 3.5 Writing Your Poster

• 3.6 How to Title Your Poster

Module 4: How to Design Scientific Posters

• 4.1 How to Make Your Poster Eye-Catching

• 4.2 Layout: How to Structure Your Poster

• 4.3 How to Use Negative Space

• 4.4 How to Visualise Data

• 4.5 Which Colours to Use and Avoid in Your Poster

• 4.6 Which Font Should I Use?

• 4.7 Bitmap vs. Vector Graphics

• 4.8 Which Software is Best?

• 4.9 Where to Find Free Images and Graphics?

• 4.10 How to Use Photos on Posters

• 4.11 Is the “Better Poster” Really Better?

• 4.12 FREE Poster Templates & Summary Infographic

Module 5: ePosters, Interactivity and Graphical Abstracts

• 5.1 QR codes: How to Make Printed Posters Interactive

• 5.2 How to Make Your ePoster Interactive in PowerPoint

• 5.3 How to Create an Awesome Interactive ePoster in Canva

• 5.4 Is the Graphical Abstract the Evolution of the Scientific Poster?

• 5.5 How a Poster Can Make you a Star

Module 6: How to Print Your Scientific Poster

• 6.1 How to Prepare for Print

• 6.2 Which Paper is Best?

Module 7: Bonus Content

• 7.1 Poster Critique: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

• 7.2 Old vs. New - the Debate