Bagel Mondays: a Schedule for Spring 2007

April 2
April 16
April 30
May 14
(No Bagel Monday May 28, Memorial Day)
June 11

Notes on Graphic Design Workshop

During the Poster Design Workshop, Andrea and Aaron gave us some good resources to use when designing our posters:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

http://www.soe.uoguelph.ca/webfiles/agalvez/poster/

http://www.worqx.com/color/color_wheel.htm

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_of_design/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design

http://www.ideastraining.com/PDFs/TypographyBasics.pdf

Good typefaces to use:

Gill Sans, Helvetica, Garamond, Adobe Jensen, Palantino, Grotesque, Frutiger, Meta, Trade Gothic, Universe.

Campus Resources:

Instructional Development Support Center - Excellent poster printing, at a good price (about a dollar per linear inch, up to 44" tall)

Graphic Design Center - Consulting / design help at $25 per hour

A few notes from the presentation:

Introduction
rhythm and balance
(dominance) proportion
unity

Color
complement colors work well together

active range (warm) jumps out
passive range (cold) recedes back
purple & yellow-green are neutral

vibrating boundary effect using complement colors
(makes text hard to read, but works better for shapes)

Type
Makes your poster sophisticated (or not)
Serif -- good for body text
Sans Serif -- good for headings, visible from a longer distance

Display fonts -- usually for crazy advertising, not serious -- don't use
Gil Sans, Classical Helvetica

Effective Poster Design
Grid
Whitespace, negative space, resting space

Poster Design Workshop

We'll be hosting a poster design workshop at 2 in the afternoon in the Microsoft Innovation Center on Monday the 12th. Andrea Brandtner and Aaron Perkins from the Graphic Design Center (http://www.gdc.pdx.edu/) will come and tell us what makes a successful poster from a graphic design perspective. They will present some general techniques for effective information presentation and critique a few computer science posters from this department.

Graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend. I have noticed that computer scientists generally know what should go on their conference poster, sometimes know how much to put on it, but rarely know how to make it attractive (myself included). This workshop will give us some pointers.

When the workshop is complete, we'll post some notes here.

Bagel Mondays: a Schedule for Winter 2007

January 8
January 22
February 5
February 19
March 5
March 19