Additional Resources & Acknowledgements
Academic Poster Resources
- If you have questions about what images and text you can use: Contact the Copyright Office
- Book a consultation or attend a workshop on academic writing: Centre for Academic Communication
- An excellent research study looking at the effectivness of traditional academic posters vs. more minimal posters - A step in the right direction: Billboard-style posters preferred overall at two conferences, but should include more methods and limitations
- Traditional style poster template: UVic Academic Poster Template for PowerPoint (click on the Academic Research Posters option)
- Our workshop on academic posters in PowerPoint: Persuasive Academic Posters in PowerPoint
- Large format printing services on campus: Blink Printing or Zap Copy
Photos, clip art, and other media
- Pexels (photos and video clips)
- Unsplash for Education collections (photos, scientific images, art scans, etc)
- Wikimedia Commons: Free media resources
- VectorStock (clip art)
- The Noun Project (icons)
- Creative Commons image search (images)
- Creative Commons video search
- Create Biology figures (AI image generator - 3 images only for free version)
Design Tips and Examples
- The fundamentals of design
- About colour
- Typography
- Design Inspiration
- Inspiration, creators, freebies: Dribble
- Colour scheme generator: Coolors
- WebAIM Colour contrast checker for accessibility
Acknowledgements
- UBC Library Research Commons, for their assistance with the Jekyll template for GitHub Pages.