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EPISODE · May 20, 2025 · 12 MIN

Effective design features on posters (GM1 comms)

from The Grey Lit Café · host Anthony Haynes

If you're studying on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course, this episode is for you.The episode focuses on the visual aspects of advice. It seeks to provide pragmatic recommendations that will make a marked difference to the communicative effectiveness of your poster presentation.Contents00:00 Navigation01:56 Visual aspects of text04:25 Contrast07:21 Alignment09:13 Naming10:29 Further resourceFurther ResourcesRobin Williams, The non-designer’s design book, 4th edn (PeachpitPress, 2014).Writing, designing, and presenting a poster (a writing protocol): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bW8sj5j1W70PjYLUuLgPLPADyOvUOXVV/view/.Credit: The music, from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, is courtesy of the US Marine Band. Support the showAbout the publisherThis episode is published by Frontinus Ltd. We're a communications consultancy that helps organisations and individuals to communicate scientific, professional, and technical content to non-specialist audiences. We provide consultancy mentoringediting and writingtrainingand work on presentations, bids and proposals, and publications (for example, reports and papers).To learn more about services or explore ways of working together, please contact us via our website, http://frontinus.org.uk/.

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If you're studying on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course, this episode is for you. The episode focuses on the visual aspects of advice. It seeks to provide pragmatic recommendations that will make a marked difference to the communicative effectiveness of your poster presentation. Contents 00:00 Navigation01:56 Visual aspects of text04:25 Contrast07:21 Alignment09:13 Naming10:29 Further resourceFurther Resources Robin Williams, The non-designer’s design book, 4...

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