The poster session I didn’t attend October 24, 2011
Posted by mareserinitatis in papers, research, work.Tags: conference, logo, posters, research
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About two weeks ago, we were informed that a couple abstracts we’d submitted had been accepted for a poster session at a regional industry conference. Oh…and we had ten days to prepare the posters.
This was rather amusing as the information about the conference presentations had come out a couple weeks before, and until we received notice, there had been nothing indicating there was a poster session.
Sadly, the bulk of the preparation fell on the shoulders of one of my colleagues who is a mechanical engineer. While I was supposed to be responsible for one poster, I realized that half of what was on the poster was stuff that I couldn’t explain….at least not without making us all sound like idiots. I did, however, manage to conjure up some very pretty pictures of what we were doing. (And I was able to explain what I did, of course.)
When discussing these posters, I asked which logo we should use. We’ve had a couple different permutations over the years, and I wasn’t sure which one was in favor at the moment. It turned out that we had a new logo.
And a very bland one at that. So bland it was monochromatic…in greyscale.
When we put it on the poster, it was hardly noticeable under all the other info we were told to display by the conference organizers.
Nonetheless, the colleague who attended the conference said that some people did come and at least ask questions about our organization. I’m hoping the pretty pictures worked to attract their attention, but I have to give them credit for seeing the finer details.
And now I better get back to work as I just found out about a conference which would be perfect match for a paper I’ve been meaning to get out. Of course, the deadline is in one week.
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