Workshop 3. Scientific Poster Lab - Applying visual methods to poster designs
with Julia Pawlowski
Date: 20 June 2024, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: EMBL seminar room, building 48e
Outline:
Scientific posters are an integral part of the daily work of scientists. In this way, projects and results are to be presented to an expert audience to encourage discussions and to make new contacts within your peer group.
But what kind of visual methods can help you to develop your poster designs for a better transfer of information? How can you get more attention in case being one of many posters on a conference?
In this poster workshop, you will first receive short introductions to topics such as coloring and layout, dealing with design requirements and text-image compositions. Afterwards, you will work on your own subject-specific poster examples (or your drafts for future posters) by discussing questions in the group and to further develop your status quo with regard to your visual science communication.
Important note: Please bring a laptop with your own poster-example as PDF-file and also as an „open data file“ (."ppt"-Data for Powerpoint and as ".pdf") and an USB-stick with these works to the workshop. This will simplify the process of developing your designs within the group.
Trainer:
Julia Pawlowski is a communication designer specializing in the field of visual science communication and exhibition design. As a research assistant at the University College of the University of Hamburg, she developed workshops to support doctoral students and university lecturers in presenting their work using visual methods in a way that is appropriate for the target group. Since 2021, she has been working in the DUTy project of the Hamburg Center for University Teaching and Learning, where she is involved in the development of qualification offerings for university lecturers. In addition, she has been working for more than five years as a freelance exhibition designer for various film and exhibition projects of the Center for Natural History Hamburg (now Leibniz Institute) and is responsible for the design of the special exhibition „Eocene – At the Beginning of Our World“ (2021 – 2022). More info at https://www.nawik.de/team/julia-pawlowski/
