PIO Resources for Faculty, Staff & Students
Publications and Posters
General Advice
Scientific posters should be designed to be comfortably read from six feet away. Don't include too much text, use large font sizes and use bullets.
- Advice on Designing Scientific Posters (provided by and courtesy of Colin Purrington, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College). This is a great guide to producing an appealing and readable poster. It also includes downloadable Powerpoint postertemplates.
- See also PIO presentation resources
Spelling, Capitalization and Style
UAF uses the Associated Press style guide for university print and online pubications. Ever wonder if you should capitalize the word "chancellor" when using it in a sentence? See the UAF Editorial Style Guide for all your spelling and capitalization questions.
Photographs
A "picture is worth a thousand words" and often can be more effective in recruiting students or appealing to external audiences than several pages of text. I maintain a collection of high-quality photographs of SFOS students, faculty and staff at work. Please contact web@sfos.uaf.edu if you have SFOS-related photos to share.
Graphics and Logos
The SFOS logo should only be used as a secondary logo. The UAF logo should always be the primary logo. We normally do not use tertiary logos after UAF and SFOS. This was determined by UAF Marketing and Communications institutional identity standards.
When creating posters or any publications larger than a standard letter-size document, use the largest graphic or logo available. For printed publications, the larger the file size, the better. View your poster at 100% (actual size) zoom, or print a section of it; if your logo is fuzzy, you need to download a larger logo.
The same applies to any of your images or graphics. If you simply right-click or copy an image on the Internet, the image will most likely have been optimized for the web (very small file size) and will show up as a pixelated, or fuzzy, image on your printed document. For printed publications, especially large scientific posters, you need large graphics (usually over 1 MB, or 1000 KB, in size).
Do not resize a logo or graphic by simply "pulling" on the corner of the logo, as this may result in a graphic that is stretched or compressed. Always resize graphics by scaling them so that the aspect ratio remains proportional.
Downloadable Logos
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- UAF logos for download
- Oversize UAF logos for download (best for posters)
- SFOS Logo
The SFOS logo should only be used in conjunction with the University of Alaska Fairbanks logo, and not on its own. For more information, download UAF's handout on graphic standards (227 KB PDF). The university discourages the use of secondary or tertiary logos, especially without clear use of the UAF logo as the primary logo.
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School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, blue |
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School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, black |
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School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, blue, with text |
Poster Printing
SFOS has poster printers for printing items larger than 11"x17".
Fairbanks 907-474-7092 239 O'Neill How to get a poster printed Juneau 907-796-5443
907-796-5441Gabrielle
Louisagdhazelton@alaska.edu
louisa.hayes@alaska.eduKodiak Coming soon
