Internal Resources for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University at Buffalo (UB)
Creative Services
Provide your audience with digital and physical materials that communicate your message and maintain UB’s brand and identity. We design materials to promote your department, programs and activities, and give you the tools to elevate your content.
On this page:
Templates and Tools
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint templates, virtual backgrounds, and more are available for departmental use and quick turnaround projects. These downloadable templates include best practices and step-by-step instructions on using the template to ensure consistency across SEAS.
These Microsoft Word letterhead templates make it easy to create customized digital stationery to use in email, web and other electronic applications.
Looking for printed letterhead?
For print use, please refer to the Stationery System.
Streamline your photo slideshows by using our PowerPoint templates.
Streamline your presentation slideshow—and keep it consistent with the UB brand guidelines—by using our PowerPoint templates.
Formal PowerPoint Templates:
Contemporary PowerPoint Templates:
Presenting research findings at an academic meeting? Use UB-branded templates to create your poster. Print and digital templates are available in various sizes via the link below.
For best results, print your research poster through University Print Services. This is UB's preferred, on-campus vendor with lower costs than outside vendors and an experienced staff to help you.
Make your Zoom meetings sleek and professional with our branded Zoom backgrounds.
Printed Promotional Items
We design printed promotional materials, including posters, postcards, brochures and other collateral. Once you have identified your needs and idea, submit a creative services request and we'll contact you shortly.
Print Vendors
We recommend using Print Services for your printing needs like black and color copies, posters, business cards, department letterhead, envelopes and more.
Branded Merchandise
Sometimes known as promo gifts, giveaways or "swag," promotional products are customized UB merchandise that are a great way to celebrate school spirit and promote your department.
Before ordering promotional items or merchandise, you'll need to work with approved vendors and complete the UB trademarks request form to get approval from UB Trademarks and Licensing to purchase items with your department lockup.
Banners
Pop-up banners help you welcome current and prospective students, professionals and other attendees to any of your departmental or unit events. When submitting a creative services request, you will need to provide the vendor information, dimensions, and, if applicable, any specific text and images you would like to include.
Environmental Design
Integrating the brand throughout the department's physical spaces will help add visual interest to a space and create a cohesive look that makes a memorable impression on students, faculty, staff and visitors.
Please review these guidelines before starting your environmental project – whether that’s redesigning a space or creating new graphics.
Stationery System
University stationery is a tangible expression of our brand identity. These standardized designs ensure consistency and impact in our written communications.
Printed Stationery
All printed UB stationery must use the official brand typefaces and watermarked paper stock available exclusively through Print Services.
When ordering letterhead or envelopes, specify which sub-brand logo you'd like in the Special Instructions after proofreading and submitting the order. Print Services will send you a proof before printing.
Business card template includes:
- Individual’s name
- Title
- Department name
- School
- University mailing address
- Telephone and fax numbers (optional)
- UB email address
- Your department's main website
Letterhead is available in master brand, brand extension and sub-brand templates.
Letterhead may include:
- Department name
- School
- University mailing address
- Telephone and fax numbers
- UB email address
- Your department's main website
Envelopes are available in master brand, brand extension and sub-brand versions.
Envelopes may include:
- University master brand mark, brand extension or sub-brand lockup*
- Department name
- University mailing address, including building name and room number
*For mail to be correctly delivered, the university name must appear as part of the return address. This requirement is accomplished by using an approved logo or lockup.
Digital Stationery
These Microsoft Word letterhead templates make it easy to create customized digital stationery to use in email, web and other electronic applications.
These templates are for electronic communication only.
Digital Signage
- When using PowerPoint to create digital signage content, be sure to use the wide-screen slide size at 20in width by 11.25in height.
- If dealing in pixels, use full-screen at 1920px width by 1080px height.
- We can display almost any file type (PPT, PNG or JPG files all work well).
Do
- Give your signage content context. If you are submitting a PowerPoint presentation, make sure each slide makes sense as a stand-alone message. Chances are your viewers will not stick around to watch your entire presentation, so each slide should make sense to the viewer even if it is the only one they see in the series.
- Keep keywords in mind. If you need us to add your event to the UB calendar in addition to signage, document names, email submission subject lines and signage content should all be constructed with searchable keywords in mind. What department is this for? When does the event take place? Who is presenting?
- Go big or go home. Display monitor content should be designed as if it was going up on a billboard. Make sure your text is large enough to be read from at least 10 feet away (at least 24 points or larger). Use high quality images that can easily be seen from a distance and look good in HD! Visit the SEAS Photo Database for high quality images.
Don't
- Use ambiguous names for your documents or slideshows. The name of your document should describe what it is related to without someone having to open it. For example, if you are submitting a PDF for a lecture, do not name it "Lecture Announcement.pdf." A better name would be "mae_seminar_3.2.17.pdf."
- Leave spaces in the names of digital signage submissions. Use underscores where necessary. For example, "SEAS_2017_Graduate_Commencement.ppt"
- Cram in too much information. Think about the physical location of the monitors. Is your content being displayed in a common area where students may gather for an event such as the Davis Hall atrium? Or will it be displayed while students are waiting for an elevator in Furnas Hall? If you can't read through all the information in 8 seconds, it's too long.
On Screen Now!
View digital signage that is currently on rotation on our schools monitors
Please note that the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences reserves the right to make decisions about what is appropriate for posting and when a posting will appear in the announcement rotation.