Designing posters – SysTutorials QA
Posted on In QASome tutorials or materials for designing posters?
Designing conference posters by Colin Purrington: http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign
Scribus – an open source desktop publishing tool: http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
Inkscape is a good tool for editing vector figures.
GIMP is a great tool for editing images.