1. Effective Illustration Trevor Collins Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, UK

2. Design guidelines • Checklist for slide masters and overhead transparencies • Horizontal layout • Easy to read, bold font • 36 point type for titles, 30 point and 24 point for text • Maximum of 9 lines of type or equations • Maximum of 10 words per line Effective Illustration

3. Design guidelines • Colours selected for high contrast • Curves bold, encoded by line pattern or simple labels • No grid lines underlying curves • Clear labels on graph axes • Texts and labels on A4 size sheet readable at 8 feet • 35 mm slides readable at arm’s length • Dots to identify lower left corners of right-side-up 35 mm slides Effective Illustration

4. Further information • Society for Information Science and Technology • “Guide to Effective Illustration: Images for Presentation and Publication” • http://www.imaging.org/resources/vcguide/ Effective Illustration