• Poster Design Advice
  • How to create a poster that graphically communicates your message, Kathryn Tosney, The University of Michigan, with lots of good and bad examples
  • Designing Conference Posters, Colin Purrington, Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, and other tips
  • Guidelines for Creating a Poster for a Professional Meeting, Stephanie Stocks, James Zimmerman, Clemson University,
  • Creating Large Format Posters Using PowerPoint, BioMedical Communications.
  • The Basics of Poster Design, Washington Space Grant Consortium,
  • Research Posters 101, Lorrie Faith Cranor, ACM Crossroads Student Magazine,
  • Creating Effective Poster Presentations , George R. Hess, NC State University and Leon H. Liegel, Oregon State University,
  • Focus on Your Data! Keep Graphics Clean and Simple, good advice for posters and papers,
• Tools
  • Microsoft PowerPoint. Many of the sites listed above include links to PowerPoint templates for making posters,
  • OpenOffice, free software that can read and write Microsoft Office files, including PowerPoint files.
  • LaTeX Posters