Visual Design for Scholarly Communication

This guide provides an overview for designing visual methods for scholarly communication. This could be a conference poster, presentation slides, or even a report or zine for a public audience. 

The goal of this guide is to help spark conversation regarding [how you will frame, organize, edit and share your].  At each stage of the process it is important to consider how creative and design decisions can inspire new conversations and connections and/or perpetuate harmful stereotypes and dynamics.  This guide will provide prompts for thoughtfully considering why you are choosing a poster, slideshow, or report as a medium, how you are collaborating, how visuals communicate, and shaping your story.

Support

If you would like to setup a meeting or training during any stage of poster, presentation, or report creation, you can schedule an appointment with a Digital Media Specialist.

Learning to use new software takes time and practice. The DDS offers select open workshops for those looking to get hands on training.  We also highly recommend signing up for Udemy and following their training videos for the software you are working in.  These video tutorials are comprehensive and cover almost every tool you’ll need to start working in a new software.  For instructions on how to sign-up check out this guide provided by TTS.  

DDS Staff are also available to help troubleshoot any questions you may have so don't hesitate to stop by!