Greg Booth of the East Engineering Computing Network staff held a Poster Design & Printing Workshop on Monday, 2/14, and has graciously shared his workshop Powerpoint slides with us.

They're available as both PPT and PDF:
poster_workshop.ppt
poster_workshop.pdf

The workshop -- and the accompanying slides -- covered design, typography, plotting, color, ink, paper, software, lead time, and cost aspects of creating posters.