• Basic guidelines:
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  • Avoid too much text, people won't read it.
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  • Avoid cluttered backgrounds
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  • Keep the font style, colour and sizeuniform throughout the poster
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  • Make the colours you use contrasty and pleasing to the eye.
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  • If you have photographs or charts, make them the centre piece so that the 
  • eye is drawn to the poster. 
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  • Photographs should be high resolution images, scanned at the highest 
  • resolution or digitized at the highest settings. 
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  • If you have references, these can be placed at the bottom of the poster
  • in smaller font size 
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  • Save your poster presentation every 10 minutes. Post formatting can take 
  • many hours work!
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