How to Make a Poster Arial Bold, 120 pt.

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How to Make a Poster (Arial Bold, 120 pt.) Poster
Size 35 x 48 (Arial Bold, 96 pt.)

• PowerPoint is great for making posters.
• Look at the posters on the walls for design
  ideas and font choices. Select your font for
  legibility.
• In PowerPoint, work from this template or create
  a fully blank new presentation.
• Use Page Setup and choose the custom slide
  size. Typical poster measurements will be either
  24 x 35 or 35 x 48. The board on which we
  mount posters comes standard in these two sizes.
  (We use 35 so that there are no problems with
  the borders when the poster is printed on the 36
  wide printer/plotter paper.)
• Remember that a poster should contain only a
  small amount of information. Choose a few
  specific ideas you want to convey. Organize the
  prose carefully, and dont be too wordy. Posters
  should be visual, so a picture or two might help
  illustrate your ideas.
• Run Spell Check AND have someone thoroughly
  proofread your work before it is printed.

Be aware of how your images will look against the
posters background. Notice how the top bunny
blends in with the white background. Placing the
image on a black backdrop makes it stand out.
This type is 44 pt Arial (not bold).
This is 54 point Times New Roman type. Sometimes
images look better surrounded by a dark or light
border. To do this, make a box of the desired
color and center the image over it. Commands for
move to front, etc., are located with the Draw
tools (lower left corner when running
PowerPoint). The image to the right is a clip
art city on a light blue background centered over
a black box.
YOUR NAME HERE (Arial 32 pt. italic)
MONTH AND YEAR HERE
YOUR PROJECT URL HERE