{"id":9857,"date":"2017-05-29T20:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2019-08-13T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:30:05","slug":"designing-academic-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/designing-academic-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing Academic Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Steady on the Page<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped.png\" alt=\"Gold stamp on blue cloth of the logo of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. Detail from the front cover of Volume II of 'The Illustrated Catalogue'\" width=\"150\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped.png 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MB-Catalogue-Cover-II-logo-cropped-132x150.png 132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Continuing to reflect on the values of presenting materials, whether text, image, or both, upon a page or writing surface, we have decided to proclaim the principles which guide our approach to layout of posters. You may have noticed some of them at our events, on the Posts of Pages pertaining to them, and\/or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/ghent-seals-gallery\/rgme-posters-display\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poster Gallery<\/a> on this website.<\/p>\n<p>You may know already about our views about design and layout, for example in the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901230721\/https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/insular-anglo-saxon-and-early-anglo-norman-manuscript-art-at-corpus-christi-college-cambridge-1997\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong><\/a> (our own design throughout, apart from the front covers and the promotional booklet), in our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/style-manifesto\" target=\"_blank\">Style Manifesto<\/a> (we are not so shy, uncommitted, or wimpy, as to call it a &#8220;Style Sheet&#8221;), and in all of our <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/profile\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\">Publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4445\" style=\"width: 627px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Style-Manifesto-version-April-2015-page-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4445\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4445 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Style-Manifesto-version-April-2015-page-1.png\" alt=\"Page 1 of the 'Style Manifesto' of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence in the version of April 2014 (4 pages)\" width=\"617\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Style-Manifesto-version-April-2015-page-1.png 617w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Style-Manifesto-version-April-2015-page-1-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Style-Manifesto-version-April-2015-page-1-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Version of April 2015<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Principles and Principled<\/h3>\n<p>Now we offer a similarly clear, and polemical, description of principles which we believe should govern the processes, and products, of Designing Academic Posters. The 4-page Booklet, set in RGME <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/bembino\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bembino<\/a>, describes and illustrates the aims.<\/p>\n<p>You may download our booklet in whichever form you prefer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/9858\/\" target=\"_blank\">Designing Academic Posters<\/a> set out in 4 individual letter-sized (or quarto) pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/9870\" target=\"_blank\">Designing Academic Posters as Booklet<\/a> laid out on 11&#8243; \u00d7 17&#8243; sheets for folding into a 4-page booklet in consecutive reading order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We adopted this dual form of publishing our Booklets for some earlier cases, as with the Report on some <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/new-testament-leaves-in-old-armenian\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Testament Leaves in Old Armenian<\/a>.\u00a0 Its 20-page Report appears both as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/5625\" target=\"_blank\">Armenian Pages<\/a> set out in individual letter-sized (or quarto) pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/5627\" target=\"_blank\">Armenian Booklet<\/a> laid out on 11&#8243; \u00d7 17&#8243; sheets for folding into a booklet in consecutive reading order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experience shows that some of you may prefer the second option, so we continue the provision.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<h3>Examples from our Poster Gallery<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Colloquium-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6089 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Colloquium-Poster.png\" alt=\"2014 Poster\/Program for the Colloquium on 'When the Dust Has Settled, Or, When Good Scholars Go Back . . . ', laid out in RGME Bembino\" width=\"617\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Colloquium-Poster.png 617w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Colloquium-Poster-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2014-Colloquium-Poster-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? We invite your comments. We&#8217;d be glad to improve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PosterStork-done-with-border.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7031 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PosterStork-done-with-border-792x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Poster 2 for the 2016 'Words &amp; Deeds' Symposium at Princeton University, with 2 images from the Otto Ege Collection, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Photography by Lisa Fagin Davis. Reproduced by permission. Poster set in RGME Bembino\" width=\"792\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PosterStork-done-with-border-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PosterStork-done-with-border-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PosterStork-done-with-border-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And another favorite:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Boulogne-12-poster-Nov-12-done-with-border.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Boulogne-12-poster-Nov-12-done-with-border.png\" alt=\"Poster for 'In a Knotshell' (November 2012)with border\" width=\"616\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Boulogne-12-poster-Nov-12-done-with-border.png 616w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Boulogne-12-poster-Nov-12-done-with-border-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Boulogne-12-poster-Nov-12-done-with-border-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please let us know your favorites!\u00a0 We&#8217;d be glad to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>Comments here or <a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Contact Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steady on the Page Continuing to reflect on the values of presenting materials, whether text, image, or both, upon a page or writing surface, we have decided to proclaim the principles which guide our approach to layout of posters. 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