Office of Student Research and Creative Activity

Your faculty mentor must approve the content of your poster. Once you and your faculty mentor have finalized the poster content, create a design of your poster using a template: horizontal. The poster can be designed by you or a professional graphic/art service (at your own expense).The Graphics and Presentations Design/Presentations Lab no longer designs posters, but will arrange for printing them (at your own expense). You will need to attach a pdf of the design you’ve created to the online production request.

For more information about poster printing, please contact:

Copy This!
Phone: 920 424-3180
Email: copythis@uwosh.edu

Poster Design Tips

• Posters should be constructed to be mounted on screen flexes (covered with fabric) that we will provide. You’ll hang your poster with T-pins or Velcro (provided).
• Posters should be in a 3′ x 4′ format. A horizontal design is preferable.
• If you cite something in your poster, there needs to be a bibliography in your poster.
• Make sure your font size is legible and photos, if any, are not too dark.
• Consider using a handout to define terminology if your poster is highly technical.
• Less is more. Your poster should not be text-heavy or appear crowded. If you want to communicate details, could you provide a handout with more information? (But note that no exhibits, models or computers may be used with the poster.)
• Can your information be communicated graphically through a chart, diagram, etc.?
• Regarding the hierarchy of information presented on your poster, emphasize your main point (thesis) graphically with a larger font size, higher placement or color. (But don’t use too many colors!)
• Chunk information to represent conceptual relationships (text boxes, bullets, etc.).
• Keep in mind that placement of text over a graphic makes reading difficult.
• Double-check spelling and grammar. (Have someone else read it, too.)

Poster Examples