GRAPHICS, CHARTS and GRAPHS

• High quality graphics - graphs, illustrations, and photos - are the centerpiece of your poster.

• Good graphs communicate relationships quickly.

• Graphs should be simple and clean.

• Write explanations directly on figures, instead of referencing from elsewhere.

• Use simple 2-dimensional line graphs, bar charts, pie charts.

• Avoid 3-dimensional graphs unless you're displaying 3-dimensional data - many 3-D graphs are difficult to interpret.

• Text on graphs must follow same guidelines as all other text so that it will be visible.

• Use photos that help deliver your message.

• Charts and graphs can be created in Excel and imported into PowerPoint.

• Charts can graphs can also be created in Adobe Illustrator.