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 Navigation
• 01:56 Visual aspects of text
• 04:25 Contrast
• 07:21 Alignment
• 09:13 Naming
• 10:29 Further resource

Further Resources

Robin Williams, The non-designer’s design book, 4th edn (Peachpit
Press, 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.

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This 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
• mentoring
• editing and writing
• training

and 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/.

If you're studying on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course, this episode is for you.

The episode focuses on the (quite radical) implications of (a) the context of poster display, (b) spectators' behaviour, and (c) aspects of inclusive practice.

These considerations will help you to optimise the communicative effectiveness of your poster presentation.

Credit: The music, from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, is courtesy of the US Marine Band.

Support the show

About the publisher

This 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
• mentoring
• editing and writing
• training

and 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/.

If you're a student on the University of Cambridge's Multidisciplinary Design course (GM1), this episode is for you.

Indeed, it focuses on considerations specific to the course, based on observations from previous cohorts' presentations.

This is the third of three episodes on presentations. There is a parallel set of episodes on poster presentations.

Contents

• 00:00 Group prsentations
• 01:35 Use of space
• 03:30 Q & A
• 09:14 Further resources

Link

The protocol, 'Giving a presentation', is available from the Frontinus website, here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QyT64vNnO7RXUhoWj9WBStOewtOwzv6s/view.

Credit: The music is from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, courtesy of the US Marine Band.

Support the show

About the publisher

This 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
• mentoring
• editing and writing
• training

and 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/.