Welcome

Welcome to Making a Poster in Illustrator! This video series is intended to assist in the research poster creation process, and focuses on how to design an effective research poster as well as how to construct a poster in Adobe Illustrator.

What you will learn

During the course of this video series, you will...

Understand what a research poster is and why they might want to create a research poster
Use page layout principles to effectively lay out a poster
Learn how to set up a poster in Illustrator
Learn how to add poster elements to a document in Illustrator
Learn how to prepare a poster created in Illustrator for printing
Become aware of printing considerations, such as including margins and ensuring images are sized correctly for output in TCC plotters

What you should already know

How to use a mouse and keyboard
How to use recent versions of Adobe Illustrator

Introduction to Research Posters

This section will introduce you to research posters, as well as the basic design and layout principles needed to create an engaging and effective research poster.

Creating Research Posters in Illustrator

This section focuses on setting up a poster, adding content, and printing a finished poster in Illustrator.