How to Make a Professional Poster Presentation

You are required to make a poster presentation. This may be for a conference or could be for a meeting with your company. However, if you have never learned how to make a professional poster presentation, this could be a difficult and even scary task for you. I can't say that I blame you; it would be for anyone who hasn't done it before.

What Do You Have To Work With?

Posters

Knowing what you have to work with will be the biggest factor involved in the poster. You need to know what kind of space you are dealing with, what other elements you intend to include with the presentation such as materials, brochures, pamphlets, or reports. You will also need to make sure that you review any guidelines on posters that may be dictated by the conference itself.

Decide whether you will be hanging the poster up, putting it on display on a table, or displaying it on a board. This is important because it will help you in determining what type of poster to create and the size you will need.

When It Is Time For Creation

It is a good idea to start working on your professional poster presentation about two or three months before it is actually needed. This will make sure that you have enough time to get things where they need to be. Create several drafts, changing as needed and moving things around.

In the "older" days it was perfectly acceptable to create a presentation on simply a poster board, using stencils, and other such items. However, today this format is not acceptable and deemed unprofessional. Most often a professional poster presentation is done completely with the computer, which allows for better graphics and more attention grabbing colors and techniques.

What to Put

Now, it is important to understand that a professional poster presentation is informative, without having too much or being too cluttered. You want to make sure that you do not overwhelm those looking at the poster. Yes, interest and attraction is your goal, but overwhelming them with too much or having too little is a downfall for your presentation.

You want the poster to take less than five minutes to review and understand. Some key elements of the poster are the Title, the Company, Those working on the poster, and the information you are trying to portray. In other words, a professional poster presentation will provide answers to the 5 W's, who, what, when, where, and why. You also want it to answer the how as well.

Keeping it simple, yet attractive is a key to learning how to make a professional poster presentation.

How to Make a Professional Poster Presentation

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Tiling - The Need For Professional Training

I've worked in some odd places in my life - from counting emeralds in a cutting laboratory to watching postmortems, so it should have come as no great surprise to me that I found myself working on-site at a refurbishment project for a casino.

The designer for the ceiling revamp was professional by degree and no-one questioned his decision to hang the ceiling tiles with purlons. No-one, that is, until the ceiling tiles began to fall and hit one hapless gambler on the head, knocking him out. Slap bang in the middle of the project, the ceiling design had to go back to the drawing board.

Arts

At this same project I may add, another inventive designer decided to lay such a highly-polished black tiling walkway through the casino that the tiles acted as mirrors for happy security guards looking up ladies skirts!

If not even the professionals can always get it right, I would suggest that we stay away from DIY. A tiling course is the way to go. In the end, it is more cost and labour effective to know which tools to use and how to utilise them, what grouting to use and when to use it and very importantly, how to lay the tiles straight and evenly. There's a lot more to tiling than the average person knows about, trust me.

There's a wonderful new tiling range which features flat pebbles and can be used for walls or floors. It comes backed with adhesive netting. For that sort of feature, you could perhaps get away with a bit of DIY, but certainly not for general tiling work.

Tiling is an art. And whether you want to make a career or a hobby out of it, go to the masters and learn - like any other art. You'll be glad you did.

At a tiling course, you will reach a new level of understanding about tiling. In general, you will be taught about the tools you require and be shown which each one is utilised for. You will learn all about:

o Substrates (which is the preparation or groundwork for tiling).
o Adhesives and grouts (you will need to know about, for example - how much to use and at what stage).
o How to lay wall and floor tiles of different sizes (shapes may follow at a more advanced course). A very important feature of your course will be how to lay tiles so that they fit into corners, around wash hand basin pedestals for example in your bathroom.

This is all important to learn because there can be nothing worse than a badly-laid tiled floor. It should be eye-catching in a pleasant way and add to the rest of your home décor, not subtract from it.

You could call in a tile-laying service and that would be expensive but DIY may be even more expensive because of all the slip-ups and wastage that come with inexperience. Preferably book yourself on to a proper tiling course and learn from a professional.

Tiling - The Need For Professional Training

Judy Wolvaardt