Top tips for turning your research into an eye-catching poster

Having trouble designing a scientific poster?  We understand that your poster will represent many months, or even years of hard work and translating this research into a poster format can be challenging. 

Here are some of the design principles we follow:  

• Avoid overloading the reader with too much information. Less is always more!  Determine where heavy content can be edited down to either a bulleted list or callout statement

• Graphs, tables and other visuals are key to communicate your data.  Can graphs be consolidated or better articulated using other formats and techniques?

• Could the use of infographics make a difference to simplify a complex message?  Using contrast and typographic varieties in a minimalistic way to better serve the content and understanding of the data

• A limited and well chosen colour palette against a white background gives more impact, meaning and functionality.  A riot of colour is much harder for the eye to navigate

• Content distributed into columns, with text aligned to the left encourages the reader to read! Central alignment is really tricky to read and digest, especially for longer lines of text

• Graphics and typography can be viewed clearly from a comfortable distance, or if reading from a tablet

• Compliant - We understand the sensitivity of the data and the importance of a non-commercial presentation

With our highly experienced team of medical editors and graphic designers, we’re the experts at creating compelling and memorable posters.

Please get in touch, as we'd love to be involved in creating a stand-out poster to tell your story.