Pedro Salgado reports there is enough room for about 50 posters so we really encourage many participants to submit entries. More than one person can author a poster - teaming up will make it less labor intensive. Poster presentations are often used in scientific meetings as a way to show large numbers of projects in short amounts of time. The viewing time at a poster is usually no longer than fifteen minutes. Posters are a form of presenting information as a visual aid that can stand alone as a communication or serve as a tool to aid a verbal presentation.
Posters depend on visuals rather than text as a way of condensing down information.
Most of our illustration work and techniques are particularly well suited to this format. However, spending time editing text down to concise, clear information is very important. The Guild has two video tapes that may help you. The first tape is an overview of posters as a communication tool and will provide you with tips for the preparation of the poster. The methods outlined are those I used when I taught professional scientific poster preparation at the University of Minnesota to faculty, staff, and students.