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Is just a childish and doesn't really deserve commenting on. Shit, I just did, didn't I?
Evidently it had more credence than I had imagined...
Don't use Word if you value your sanity. It's bad enough for producing an essay with figures, let alone page layout. Nothing ever stays where you put it.
Powerpoint will work fine, if your printer will accept it.
Personally speaking, I'd get a trial copy of Illustrator.
I'm an academic (geography), i do graphic design, i research the politics of design and this thread makes me want to cry. The generalisations are incredible.
Good content and good design are not mutually exclusive. Content isn't key, communicating the content is. Design helps to do this - Phil W is right when he says design isn't just about fancy looking things, it is about visual grammar. Just like poor written grammar, poor visual grammar limits communication.
Academic posters should not be short academic papers pinned to the wall. I hate walking into a poster presentation session and being confronted with 20 posters which look the same. If you can't integrate graphics, or use visuals to help explain what you're saying, and have to rely words instead, you shouldn't be making a poster.
Kid, i suspect you don't have the budget to employ a designer to help you out, but if you know how to use programs like InDesign or Illustrator do so, if not stick to Powerpoint and do some googles for good design tips (use a grid for layout and alignment, don't use too many different colours, stick to a couple of variations of typeface style, make sure the text is big enough to read, make sure it flows).
CaptJohn puts it all very succinctly.
As I designer I regularly just cut out half the content I've been supplied with, if it dares to get in the way of me producing a nice clean layout. Its all a question of priority
Right. I'm off for a latte and a line of coke. Anyone coming?
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