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Poster Resource Center

Poster Discussion

The Poster Resource Center is designed to assist meeting attendees who will be creating/presenting a Poster for the Joint Annual Meeting. If you have any questions about your Poster, please feel free to contact us at Info@aaea.org.

Poster Size

The maximum poster size is 4 feet high by 8 feet long, minus a 1-inch margin. Your actual poster may be smaller. Pushpins will be provided for you to hang your poster.

Poster Presentations

New in 2010, each Poster will be displayed at one particular meeting time. The scheduled presentation day determines when the Poster will be on display. The setup and take down times for each presentation time are available below:

Monday Poster Presentation Session

Poster Setup:
Monday, July 26, 7:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Attended Poster Session:
Monday, July 26, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Poster Take Down:
Monday, July 26, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Tuesday Poster Presentation Session

Poster Setup:
Tuesday, July 27, 7:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Attended Poster Session:
Tuesday, July 27, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Poster Take Down:
Tuesday, July 27, 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

Poster Design Tips

To help you develop your poster, we have provided a few suggestions below. This is meant as a general overview to get you started.

Content

  • Introduction: Provide context for your research. Why you are excited about it?
  • Objectives: What questions did you address or answer?
  • Methods: Key information on your research design and analysis. Keep it brief.
  • Results & Discussion: What was observed? How do the results relate to the original questions? Focus on the key points.
  • Conclusions: What did you learn?

Replace text with graphical elements as much as possible (e.g., photographs or maps of study's location, other visual aids to convey key results), but do not forget your complete contact information. Consider including a photograph of the presenting author.

Layout

Clearly indicate your key message. Avoid clutter and unnecessary detail. Don't fight the reader's gravity-pull from top to bottom and left to right. Remember graphical elements, such as balance, symmetry, rhythm, repetition, and change.

Aesthetics

Any text in your poster should be readable from 6 feet away, including text in figures. This means no text should be smaller than a 20-point font. The title must be much larger and readable from a distance (12 feet or more).

Use fonts without serif, but bold. Use dark letters on light backgrounds. Use color carefully; very bright colors can easily fatigue the reader. Stick to a theme of 2-3 colors.

Useful Guidelines

http://faculty.washington.edu/scporter/INQUAposters.html
Provides a summary of the layout and visuals of an effective research poster.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
A comprehensive guide to designing a scientific poster, including a downloadable PPT template. The template supports a maximum size of 36" by 56", but many commercial poster printers can enlarge that proportionally.

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters
Explains how to create an effective poster. Critiques selected examples and provides a list of further resources.

http://www.aaea.org/2007am/agecon_poster_tips.pdf
This document, created by AgEcon Search, offers guidelines on creating your poster in software templates and printing using commercial large format printers.