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Templates
Remember to check the size and format restrictions that the conference or event may have listed before creating your file to print. It’s also best to save all text and images in a separate file or document.
SURF – Affinity Template 40″x30″ to download free Affinity software
Design Resources
- Logos and Style Guide – UMBC Brand & Style Guide find the most up-to-date downloadable logos, colors, and fonts
- PDF Guide “Preparing An Effective Scientific Poster“
- Adobe Color Combinations
Approximately 8% of people in the world have color blindness. Adobe Color’s accessibility tools can design safe themes for deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia to help you ensure that your experiences can be more inclusive.
- Adobe Color Themes
- Digital Accessibility – UMBC guidance on accessibility, tools and resources
- Checking ADA compliance and colorblindness compatibility in Microsoft PowerPoint
- UMBC Library Creating an Academic Research Poster Windows
- UMBC Library Creating an Academic Research Poster MAC
- UMBC Library Creating an Academic Research Poster Best Practices
- UMBC Library by Semhar Yohannes -Creating an Academic Research Poster Using Power Point
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“How to prepare a scientific poster” Science.org article by Elisabeth Pain
UMBC Poster Event Information
- SURF – Summer Undergraduate Research Fest requirements and info
- SURF 2025 – SURF 2025 poster Template w Tips poster template
- URS – Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences poster requirements
- ABRCMS – Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students presentation guidelines
- URCAD – Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day presenter resources
- GEARS – Graduate Experiences, Achievements, and Research Symposium info
Places to print on UMBC campus
- Research Graphics – accepts UMBC chartstrings only – submit file using this form
- Commonvision – accepts campus cards and chartstrings
- Art Print – accepts campus cards and chartstrings
- AOK Library Print, Copy, Scan – accepts campus cards, does not print large posters
- Some departments or graduate programs may have their own print services
Places to print off campus
- Staples
- Spoonflower – printing on cloth
- MinuteMan – location in Catonsville
For Digital Accessibility resources, please see: https://researchgraphics.umbc.edu/webdesign/