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Your content is ready to go, now it’s time to make your poster beautiful! To give you a head start, we’ve created 4 different landscape and portrait academic poster PowerPoint templates each with their own unique design style! Pick your favourite and fill in the sections with your content. We’ve helped get you started with placeholders for headings, graphs, references etc. on each template but these are editable so you can customise your poster to work best for you.
Each template also has its own matching ‘sticker sheet’. Just copy and paste any of the elements you’d like to use on the sticker sheet on to your poster
Now, let’s run through some top tips to make sure you get the most out of these templates!
Alignment and guides
Wonky alignment and a poor layout can make your poster look unprofessional before your audience has even had a chance to read all the good stuff! Guides are your secret weapon to help lay your content out in clear, easy to follow sections. We’ve already set up guides in our poster templates, if you can’t see them head to the View tab in PowerPoint and tick Guides.
Guides are important to help align and balance your poster design. Some key things to remember are to keep the border clear and maintain the gaps (gutters) between sections to give your content space to breathe.
If you want to create your own guides, our free PowerPoint add-in BrightSlide.
White space
Don’t underestimate the power of what’s NOT on phone number slovenia your poster. White space is essential for making a beautiful and effective poster. Your poster should roughly consist of 20-30% text, 30-40% figures and 40% space. Yep, you heard me, 40%! White, or ‘negative’ space is all about creating areas of contrast, with clear focal points to draw your attention to the important parts, and create a flow and hierarchy across your poster. Learn more about the power of white space
Screenshot of a poster. The text is covered by semi-transparent grey boxes. This emphasises the empty space. A label says "40% white space"
Try to avoid using photos in the background, it can clutter the poster and make it difficult for your audience to read the text or understand the graphs.
Colours We’ve predesigned our poster templates with carefully selected colour schemes to make them simply beautiful! But we’ve got some tips on how to best apply the set colour scheme to your content.
Each template has a colour palette of 6-8 colours. We recommend using a bright colour as your accent colour to draw attention to key information on your poster. It’s important to use this accent colour in moderation to ensure it holds its attention-grabbing function! Make sure you apply the colour scheme to all the text, images and figures you’re using to keep your poster design consistent
Each template also has its own matching ‘sticker sheet’. Just copy and paste any of the elements you’d like to use on the sticker sheet on to your poster
Now, let’s run through some top tips to make sure you get the most out of these templates!
Alignment and guides
Wonky alignment and a poor layout can make your poster look unprofessional before your audience has even had a chance to read all the good stuff! Guides are your secret weapon to help lay your content out in clear, easy to follow sections. We’ve already set up guides in our poster templates, if you can’t see them head to the View tab in PowerPoint and tick Guides.
Guides are important to help align and balance your poster design. Some key things to remember are to keep the border clear and maintain the gaps (gutters) between sections to give your content space to breathe.
If you want to create your own guides, our free PowerPoint add-in BrightSlide.
White space
Don’t underestimate the power of what’s NOT on phone number slovenia your poster. White space is essential for making a beautiful and effective poster. Your poster should roughly consist of 20-30% text, 30-40% figures and 40% space. Yep, you heard me, 40%! White, or ‘negative’ space is all about creating areas of contrast, with clear focal points to draw your attention to the important parts, and create a flow and hierarchy across your poster. Learn more about the power of white space
Screenshot of a poster. The text is covered by semi-transparent grey boxes. This emphasises the empty space. A label says "40% white space"
Try to avoid using photos in the background, it can clutter the poster and make it difficult for your audience to read the text or understand the graphs.
Colours We’ve predesigned our poster templates with carefully selected colour schemes to make them simply beautiful! But we’ve got some tips on how to best apply the set colour scheme to your content.
Each template has a colour palette of 6-8 colours. We recommend using a bright colour as your accent colour to draw attention to key information on your poster. It’s important to use this accent colour in moderation to ensure it holds its attention-grabbing function! Make sure you apply the colour scheme to all the text, images and figures you’re using to keep your poster design consistent