LibGuides: Chemistry: Creating Academic Posters

Videos

This short video is a good introduction to creating effective posters.

This video teaches you how to present your poster during a poster session at a conference.

How to Make an Effective Poster
Provides an overview of how to create effective posters.
Designing Conference Posters
This webpage, by photographer and former evolutionary biologist Colin Purrington, has a useful essay on poster design, both good and bad. He offers novel ideas for attracting attention to your poster, as well as a number of PowerPoint and OpenOffice poster templates.
Design of Scientific Posters
This website by Michael Alley, an Associate Professor of Engineering Communication at Penn State, has lots of poster examples and PowerPoint templates.

Make sure to give credit for images by citing them using the same citation style as the rest of the poster.

Google Advanced Image Search
Limit results to "free to use or share" to make sure you may use the retrieved images on your poster.
Wikimedia Commons
All of the images on Wikimedia Commons are freely useable. For more information please visit this page on reusing content outside Wikimedia.
Flickr Creative Commons
Many photographs on Flickr are available for use under a Creative Commons license.