The 8. Edition of International Student Poster Competition |Skopjeposter| has been announced. Young design talents have opportunity to work on posters with messages on issue “Enabled for Disabled”.

Plakart, the organiser, states that “the main objective of this competition is creating and promoting better opportunities for people with disabilities”. The motto “Enabled for Disabled” needs to point out that and promote equal chances and rights for everybody. Designers obligation is to fight discrimination and inequality and ensure that people who have disabilities are regarded as equal members of society. One of the priorities is to promote a positive message about all aspects of disability – long-term illness, mobility problems, learning disability, disfigurement and everything in between.

It is no doubt that the idea/issue of dependency has been used to socially construct, or perhaps, more accurately, socially reconstruct the problem of disability, along with a whole range of other social problems which have been reconstructed in similar ways in many capitalist countries.

To improve living condition of people with special needs, identify and propose options to overcome barriers, fight taboos and enable for open society after all is the main objective of 8. ISPC “Enabled for Disabled”.

Deadline of this competition is 20 November 2015 and the international jury consisting renowned designers will be announced very soon. Two winners will be awarded with identical prizes: Participation in jury work 2016 at the 9th Skopje Poster Festival (fully covered expenses), organization of poster exhibition in MKC Gallery in 2016 and ICOGRADA Certificate.

This year competitions promo design is work of the designer Borut Vild.

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Jury members of the 8th International Student Poster Competition ‘Skopjeposter’ will consist of well know and recognized designers. This year we try to join members specialized in typography, poster design and illustration. They will hold workshops and their works will be showcased within a special jury members exhibition.  We present to you the big 5 of Skopjeposter edition 2015!

Götz Gramlich

Best known for his promotion of the social aspect of the poster “Mut Zur Wut?”. His posters are known to have distinctive design style, probably among others due to influence of working with Niklaus Troxler at his Switzerland based studio. He has been a mentor to a plenty of poster and design workshops all over the world and is holder of many international design awards as Graphis gold and platinum awards, jury prize China Poster Biennale 2012, Red Dot Design Award…

Peter Bankov

Recently awarded with winning prize at 19^th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, Petar is one of the most inspiring Russian poster artists. Bankov co-founder of Design Studio “Design Depot” and since 1997 the publisher of the design magazine “KAK” as well. In recent years he has been making posters. He favours poster as a medium that perfectly fits into our social media driven societies: ”In my opinion it is the most interesting genre in modern graphic art design. Poster has become a local visual subculture and has finally lost his centenary history of connection with commercial objectives.”

Paula Troxler

Paula has studied Visual Communications at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences of Art and Design. In 2006 she launches her own studio in Lucerne and Berlin. Her last carrier stop is Zurich, where she moves in 2008 and is living and working to the present day. Her portfolio is impressive and includes participation in projects for theatres, cultural events, book publications, advertisement and many exhibitions. She has hold lectures, workshops in Switzerland and abroad. Troxler specializes in Illustration and her works are covered in large number of international publications.

Péter Pócs

Péter Pócs was born in Pécs, Hungary. He is holder of design master of arts degree. He has been working as a graphic designer since 1972 designing mainly cultural posters. Subsequently, from the 80’s on – after the political changes- he has designed expressly political posters as well. His spiritual masters were Henryk Tomaszewski, Waldemar Świerzy and György Konecsni. His works are frequently represented at international exhibitions, biennials, triennials, symposiums(Hungarian Millennium, Children are the rhythm of the world, Sarajevo 2014, Celebrate our Planet etc.) and he has been awarded many Hungarian and international prizes for his posters. Poster Design Studio is his own studio established in 1991. In 1997 Pócs received the Hungarian Mihály Munkácsy Art Award. He is founder of the Hungarian Poster-loneliness Association.

Lasko Dzurovski

Macedonian graphic designer and typographer. He is organizer of well recognized “Typo-kitchen” (org. Tipokujna). He lives in Skopje where he established his graphic design and typography studio ‘Totem’.

Since 2000 Lasko is member of Type Directors Club from NYC. He has created 4 font families with 80 fonts in total that were exclusively used by the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, as well as 20 families of original 200 fonts. He is working simultaneously on several new font families mainly for companies from abroad. His goal is to work on popularization of the typography enthusiasts community in Macedonia, as well as increased common use of Cyrillic fonts.

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Its time to remind you that there is 7 days left to the deadline of the 8. International Student Poster Competition. Wrap up, go to www.skopjeposter.com/gallery2, register and apply. Its easy, simple and most comfortable way to grab one of the winning prizes: Exhibition of your works, taking part in the life-jury works during the 9. ISPC in Skopje, Macedonia in 2016 and ICOgrada endorsed certificate. We also provide our winners to open a blog page on our official page and also will be added as chatter to our official “Skopje Poster” Public Viber Chat.

So, are you ready to step ahead???

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Students from design and visual communications schools from all around the globe were invited to participates for 8 time to create posters regarding global issue. The results are 2674 posters received from 1869 participants.

This year topic of the 8. International Student Poster Competition at which students from New York, Miami, Buenos Aires, Jakarta, Guatemala City, Moscow, Beijing, Seoul and many more was “Enabled for Disabled”.

This is 8 year of Skopjeposter competition and Skopje Poster Festival to provide a chance to young designers to show their talent trough strong visual messages of what seems to consider global issues. This year we received 2674 posters that address, promote and underline the needs and the problems that people in disability face every day. Competition lasted for 6 months and 1869 students coming from 52 countries from each continent applied, which we consider a step forward.

Jury members – Paula Troxler (Switzerland), Lasko Dzurovski (Macedonia), Götz Gramlich (Germany), Péter Pócs (Hungary), Peter Bankov(Russia) – will have tough job to go through the selections. Winners will be announced at the opening of the exhibition of the 8. Skopje Poster Festival and officially presented on the following day, December 01^st 2015.

As part of 8. Skopje Poster Festival jury members are scheduled for Lectures of issues relating to social design, political and cultural poster and commercial projects.

Starting this year we are launching new venue that will come as standard in the festival program ‘Jury-members special selection posters exhibition’. Firstly we head-off with the opening and soon afterwards we start the deserved after-party at MKC Club/Restaurant.

Full program is available here: 8. SPF program

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It was tremendous work, but indeed pure pleasure for the jury members to make first two online selections of 2674 received posters that address, promote and underline the needs and the problems that people with disability face every day.

At the competition that lasted for 6 months 1869 students coming from 52 countries from each continent applied 2674 posters in total.

Jury members – Paula Troxler (Switzerland), Lasko Dzurovski (Macedonia), Götz Gramlich (Germany), Péter Pócs (Hungary), Peter Bankov(Russia) did 2 pre-live online selections which resulted in 100 finalist posters that will take place at the main venue of the 8. Skopje Poster Festival, that will take place in Skopje from November 30th until December 05th.  Full program: 8. Skopje Poster Festival Program

Congrats to all! Thats only a warm-up, stay with us though, in 2 days from now we will announce the winners of 8. Skopjeposter ISPC

Here is the Link to the Finalist Gallery –> Finalist of 8. Skopjeposter competition

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The meetings of students and designers with jury-members, following the announcement of the future 9. Skopjeposter competition were the last activities of this year festival

Exhibition of finalist 100 student posters, that were selected from 2674 works from 1869 students from 52 countries, was visited by students, designers, artists and poster lovers.

“From the very beginning our goal was to enrich the cultural offer of city of Skopje, to promote Macedonian culture abroad, and finally to raise the awareness about social, cultural and global issues. We have managed to organize more than 50 events in Macedonia and in many countries are prove that we are fulfilling our mission.” -stated Laze Tripkov from Plakart, organizer of this festival.

This festival has been a stepping stone to many students that were participating in Skopjeposter competition throughout the years.

“One of them is Tabi Aziri from Macedonia, working today in Amsterdam or Jan Bajtlik, polish designer that won Skopjeposter competition twice and is already a successful graphic designer.”- Laze said.

Plakart’s activities in promotion and support of the design is continuing with the Creative Hubs Conference, that will take place December 16^th in Skopje. Officials from Ministry of Culture, British Council along with the participants from RogLab – Slovenia, One Architecture Week- Bulgaria, Nova Iskra- Serbia will debate on creative sector influence on economy and business environment, possibilities to increase intellectual property protection and efficient investing in increasing of its value and how the role and impact of the digitization on this sector.

From Skopje, the exhibition of the best 100 posters of the 8. Skopjeposter competition “Enabled For Disabled” will travel to Turkey, India, Poland…

Plakart is abiding no-fee admission policy and is strongly devoted to the students promotion. Ferhat Tunc and Aslihan Tatligil, winners of the 7. Skopjeposter competiton “Design For Peace”, were invited this year to Skopje to take part in live-jury sessions and to exhibit their posters within the festival. Next year polish student from Szczecin Kaja Klesta, the winner of this year competition, will join us in Skopje!

Announcement of the 9. Skopjeposter ISPC is scheduled for March 2016.

8. SPF Gallery

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Red Cross of the City of Skopje in collaboration with Plakart – Association of Graphic Designers and with support of Transmet- Skopje announce competition on the issue “Donate blood, youth, humanity”… Voluntary donations of a blood presents expression of  high ethical, humanitarian and moral values. To donate a blood and to rescue a life is a a noble act.

In order to improve further the awareness of meaning and value of blood donations on the territory of the City of Skopje, Red Cross – Skopje is actively promoting this issue through many activities, public campaigns, blood donation venues, but also by distributing promo materials, motivational events and via TV and radio partnerships. As part of Red Cross – Skopje the Club of the Young Blood Donators is motivating the youth to join our mission.

Considering the need of continued motivation and promotion aimed to the young population Red Cross has decided to announce competition on visual communication solution on the following topic “Donate blood, youth, humanity”. The competition is opened from 1st of March until 15th of April 2016.

This competition is dedicated to the students of faculties, academies /colleges for art and design registers as educational institution as also to all professional designers at all ages. Every participant can apply with max. 3 posters. Group applications are not allowed.

Competition rules

• The Poster must promote the issue “Donate blood, youth, humanity”.
• Poster dimensions are: 500×700 mm with 150dpi resolution CMYK profile in JPG or PDF format.
• Files can not exceed 25mb and should be sent at skopje.mladi@redcross.org.mk until 15th of April.
• All used fonts must be vectored and rasterized.
• It is not allowed to use any designs/materials that are not holder of the copyrights.

Jury will be consisting of 3 members including representatives from Red Cross and Plakart.

Award

The author of the winning poster will be awarded with 2 person weekend stay at the hotel Solferino, Struga and possibility his work to be included in the promo materials (flyer, poster, billboard) that will be prepared and published within the Red Cross activities.

Additionally, at 14th of July – Worlds Blood Donor Day in the premises of Daycare Centre of Blood Donations/ Dare Dzambaz there will be venue dedicated to promotion and  improvement of this noble cause in the City of Skopje. At this event exhibition of the all arrived posters will be held. This venue will be covered by the media.

Copyrights for the all other posters will be transferred to Red Cross Skopje and in the future will be used in campaigns and promo activities of the Blood Donation causes.

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Plakart – Association of Graphic Designers from Macedonia announce the 9. International Student Poster Competition. This year the Council of ISPC and Skopje Poster Festival decided to put emphasis on the issue of the identity, which in the face of the world’s events is vigilant and essential topic.

All students on BA, MA and PhD studies of fine arts, design, visual arts, are invited to enter the 9th International Student Poster Competition until 30 October, 2016 (CET 00:00 hours).

This year issue “Identity in Crisis” is not accidental. Today we face global challenges like ethnical, cultural, religious, age and sex identification and separation. The identity issues are brought into new light! – said organiser from Plakart – Laze Tripkov.

This is why young designers from all over the world should be provoked to join and work on this issue and to speak-up in raising awareness of the wider public and all concerned parties.

Two poster winners will be awarded with equal prizes

1. Participation in jury work 2017 at the 10. Skopje Poster Festival (fully covered expenses),
2. Organization of poster exhibition in Museum of City of Skopje during SPF 2017,
3. ICOGRADA Certificate.

This year competition is supported by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia. City of Skopje and in collaboration with Museum of the City of Skopje.

Author of the promo poster of the 9. ISPC is remarkable poster designer from Russia – Peter Bankov.

Jury members will be announced very soon.

For more information about the competition and terms and rules see the following link 9. ISPC Identity In Crisis

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The competition for promotional poster on the issue „Donate Blood, Youth, Humanity” which was announced by Red Cross Macedonia and Plakart – Association of Graphic Designers has attracted big attention from graphic design community of Macedonia as well as abroad.

Authors of the posters that took part in the competition – opened from 1^st of March until 15^th of April – had task to design promotional poster for the campaign organised by Red Cross with a goal to raise public awareness on the impact that blood donations has in the process of saving human life!

Jury concluded of representatives from Red Cross and Plakart has chosen Angelina Kichukova’s as first prize winner. Other poster mentions are: Miroslav Jankovik (Macedonia), Mohsen Heydari (Iran) and Тaibeeh Heidary‏ (Iran).

As part of the worlds campaign related to World Blood Donor Day on 14 June 2014 Red Cross Macedonia organised public event in Skopje’s downtown on which posters selected for the final phase took part in the exhibition.

Plakart express gratefulness to all participants for their commitment to popularisation of the issue of blood donation.

Here are the recognised posters by Angelina, Miroslav, Mohsen and Taibeeh thah will be used for promotion of this noble cause…

Angelina Kichukova

Miroslav Jankovik

Mohsen Heydari

Тaibeeh Heidary

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It is time to make short presentation of jury members of 9. Skopje Poster Festival. Our 5 members will arrive in Skopje for live jury sessions and will have hard job to select winning posters from couple of thousands that will be submitted at the 9. International Student Poster Competition entitled “Identity in Crisis”. Again we have experts from all graphic design fields – illustration, typography, calligraphy, poster.

Finn Nygaard | Danmark |

Finn Nygaard has created posters, illustrations, graphic design and corporate identity programs and color consulting for Danish and international companies. He has created more than 600 posters, many of which he has received awards for. He is holder of 2011 Graphis Master award by Graphis USA. His design works – illustrations, posters, calligraphy, stamps has been exhibited in major galleries and museums all over the world – Museum of Printing History, Houston, Designmuseum Danmark, Galleri Fine-Art Nagoya, Japan, National Museum in Poznan, Poland, Iman Ali Museum, Tehran, Iran and many more… His designs has been featured in leading graphic art magazines like Novum, Graphis, Print Magazine. From 1990 to 1995 he was partner of the Danish design group Eleven Danes and the European Designers Network EDEN. Finn Nygaard has given many poster workshops and lectures all over the world; Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Korea, the US, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mexico, Bolivia, Turkey, Italy and Iran.

Fons Hickmann | Germany |

Fons Hickmann is a graphic designer, author and professor of design at the University of Arts in Berlin. The international style-defining design studio “Fons Hickmann m23” has been honored with numerous awards and is one of the most influential positions in contemporary design. Increasingly, he is dedicating himself to the publication of literature on diverse fields of knowledge from design through media theory to football and pop culture. Type Directors Club for Typographic Excellence, Golden Bee Awards, Graphis Gold Award, Red Dot Award are only few of the design awards that Fons and his studio has been awarded with. Hickmann is a member of TDC New York and the AGI.

Michel Bouvet | France |

Michel Bouvet graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris is a poster artist and a graphic designer. Living and working in Paris, he has designed hundreds of posters for theatre, opera, music, dance, art, festivals and public institutions in France and abroad. He had more than 80 personal exhibitions in 35 countries around the world. His studio works for theaters, public institutions, museums, festivals and publishers. Michel Bouvet is a curator of graphic design exhibitions and professor at the ESAG Penninghen in Paris. He leads also workshops in many countries. Holder of Grand Prix for a cultural poster at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Michel is one of the founders of Fete Du Graphisme – graphic design festival which take place in Paris.

Ryszard Kaja | Poland |

Ryszard Kaja is primarily a painter, poster artist, stage designer, and costume designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. He worked as a main chief designer at many theatres, from 1995-2000 he was the chief designer at the Grand Theatre in Poznan. In 2000 Ryszard suddenly ended his stage designing career to pursue graphics and painting. Ryszard Kaja is regarded as one of Poland’s most popular and prolific contemporary poster designers. He creates his work on paper using mixed techniques including paint, computer, and everything else he can get his hands on even coffee grounds, tea, ash. He has served as juror for many poster biennials. Holder of many international awards –  BICeBé Bienal del Cartel Bolivia 2015 silver medal. His posters and paintings have been shown in various locations in Poland and internationally, including Warszawa, Poznan, Wroclaw, Gniezno, Katowice, Barcelona, Berlin, Vienna, St. Louis, Ankara.

Toni Vasikj | Macedonia |

Toni Vasikj is part of the academics at School of Architecture and Design – University American College. Toni is graphic designer and artist who has fulfilled his studies at Faculty of Arts in Skopje. He is author of 9 solo-exhibitions in his homeland and abroad and has participated in over 150 group-exhibitions worldwide. His works are honored by 11 international and domestic awards for graphics and graphic design. Author of many design solutions for printed media in Macedonia and Art Director at several weekly editions simultaneously working on their layout design. During his career he has designed over 500 cover-pages for which he received many awards. He is known also for signing numerous art and graphic designs for many domestic and foreign companies, monograph editions, logotypes, catalogs, special editions, packages, textbooks… Toni has fulfilled Art Director positions at Studio Marketing JWT, AVA Communication DDB and co-founder and Art Director at Line Design.

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There is no doubt that this year we already have some great student posters receiving great awards in their categories and there should be no doubt that student posters should be acknowledged more significantly.

Skopje poster International Student Poster Competition “Identity In Crisis” has been promoting students and their works for 9 years. Likewise previous years, finalist posters exhibitions were showcased in several towns. Posters from last year competition “Enabled for Disabled” were exhibited at SUND Student Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, One Design Week in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and at 12. Golden Bee Graphic Design Bienale in Moscow, Russia.

As for the awards winners of Skopje poster 9. ISPC “Identity In Crisis” will be invited to be part of the following 10. Skopje Poster Festival and present their works at the final exhibition. All transport and accommodation costs during their Skopje journey will be covered by the organisers.

Along the possibility to win one of the main prizes authors of the best 10 posters are granted with right to open a blog page on our official page and will be granted chatter role to our official “Skopje Poster” Public Viber Chat.

If you are a student of graphic design, visual communication grab your chance and apply your poster by registering at www.skopjeposter.com/gallery2. The whole process lasts no more than 2 minutes.

Link to the competition: http://skopjeposter.com/en/projects/identity-crisis/

Here is the reminder of our jury members: http://skopjeposter.com/en/big-five-jury-9-ispc-skopje-poster-festival/

Deadline of the 9. ISPC competition is in three weeks – October 30th.

We wish all good luck!

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This has been a great journey this far. We have had a great response from young poster artists from  all over the globe. And just before we sum-up the submission process, we were shocked by your responses.

Due to enormous number of messages asking us to let the competition last little bit longer we decided to extend the deadline of 9. Skopjeposter ISPC competition “Identity in Crisis”!

Another 24 hours to submit your poster.

Grab this chance and get to work…

Link to the competition: www.skopjeposter.com/en/projects/identity-crisis/

Link to the Submission Gallery: www.skopjeposter.com/gallery2

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9. Skopje Poster Festival „Identity in Crisis” exceeded our expectations. Our competition has noted permanent increase of the number of the poster submissions in the last couple of years, this year compared to the previous one the number of applications received is 33% higher. More importantly, the number of the Academies and Schools that are willing to start collaboration and to include Skopje Poster competition as part of their educational programs is pleasant surprise and we received it with great pleasure.

The international jury: Finn Nygaard from Danmark, Fons Hickmann from Germany, Michel Bouvet from France, Ryszard Kaja from Poland and Toni Vasikj from Macedonia have had selected 50 finalist that qualified unto the next final selection round which will reveal two equal winners which will join us to 10. Skopje Poster Festival and will be provided with the opportunity to take part in jury sessions with no right to vote and to present his/hers works during the festival.

We present to you the list of the poster-authors of the 50 finalist:

1. Amadeus Ewald Fronk, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany
2. Aubrey Pohl, Mississippi State University, United States of America
3. Bartosz Mamak , Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu, Poland
4. Berkan Bingöl, Canakkale Onsekiz University, Turkey
5. David Jimenez, Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador
6. Diana Krueger, Akademia Sztuki w Szczecinie, Poland
7. Dicle Yildirim, Dokuz Üniversitesi, Turkey
8. Dorian Guillermo López Fernandez, Diseño Gráfico y Comunicación Visual – UMSS, Bolivia
9. Elana Cooper, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, United States of America
10. Elzė Grigonytė, Vilnus Academy of Arts, Lithuania
11. Hamid Nasr, Islamic Azad University, Iran
12. Inês Filipa da Costa Pimenta Cardoso, Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Portugal
13. Jakub Sobczak, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Poland
14. Jam Shid Arasteh, European University, Cyprus
15. Junyi & Zejun Shan & Wang, Maryland Institute College of Art, United States of America
16. Katarzyna Zajma, Akademia Sztuki w Szczecinie, Poland
17. Karol Szczepankiewicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
18. Kristina Kostova, University American College, Macedonia
19. Kübra Zeynep Mırık, 19 Mayıs University, Turkey
20. Kylie Dimick, PrattMWP, United States od America
21. Laura Zimna, Akademia Sztuki w Szczecinie, Poland
22. Lazar Mitrović, Faculty of Philology and Arts, Serbia
23. Li Zhiyan, The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
24. Luka Prstojević, Academy of Arts Novi Sad, Serbia
25. Mariia Filonenko, Xiamen University, Russian Federation
26. Miguel Angel Rangel, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
27. Mary Schertz, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, United States
28. Milla Hietanen, Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences, Finland
29. Mónica Soares, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
30. Nicola Murphy, University Of Bolton, United Kingdom
31. Okan Rakıcı, 19 Mayıs Univesty, Turkey
32. Piotrek Pietrzak, Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw, Poland
33. Réka Némedi Varga, Budapest Metropolitan University, Hungary
34. Rose Schisler, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, United States of America
35. Ryan Long, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, United States of America
36. Ryan Neal, Pratt MWP, United States
37. Samuel Velásquez, Instituto Profesional Duo, Chile
38. Shujun Liu, Xiamen University, Tan Kah Kee College, China
39. Sienna McGinnis, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, United States
40. Teodora Došen, Univerzitet za poslovne studije – Grafički dizajn, Bosnia and Herzegovina
41. Tsz Kwan Lai, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
42. Veera Juutinen, Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences, Finland
43. Victoria Melnikovich, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Belarus
44. Vlad Khvostov, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Belarus
45. Vladimir Anjelich, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Belarus
46. Vojin Maksimovic, Filolosko-umetnicki fakultet – Kragujevac, Serbia
47. Yan Zhou, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States of America
48. Yunxiao Yue, Xiamen University, China
49. Yusuf Akpınar, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Turkey
50. Zhirah Zou, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China

We wish all good luck in the final life selection, that will take place in Skopje between 19 and 21 of November. The winners will be announced at the 9. Skopje Poster Festival opening, 21th of November at 20h local time (UTC+1).

Is there any of you on the list? Please share your comments bellow

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After 4 years Skopje Poster Festival has returned to the Museum of City of Skopje for its 9^th edition.

Identity in Crisis was the topic of this year competition, which we thought its up-to-date topic, which is shown also by the increase of submissions бѕ 33% compared to last year. Posters from all continents were sent to this year Skopje Poster competition – the organiser of the festival and president of Plakart Gere Posterov stated at the opening.

The jury members were Michel Bouvet (France), Fons Hickmann ( Germany), Finn Nygaard ( Danmark), Ryszard Kaja (Poland) and Toni Vasikj (Macedonia) after 4-hours jury session selected the 10 best poster authors: two winning, two special jury prizes and six honorary mentions.

The president of the jury Toni Vasikj took the floor to present the best of the best: Miguel Angel Rangel, University of San Louis Potosi, Mexico and Reka Nemedi Varga from the Metropoliten University in Budapest, Hungary.

Two special jury mentions went to Shujun Liu from China and Dikle Jildirim from Turkey and honorary mentions were announced Junyi & Zejun Shan & Wang and Kylie Dimick from USA, Lazar Mitrović from Serbia,  Inês Filipa da Costa Pimenta Cardoso from Portugal, Nicola Murphy from United Kingdom and Karol Szczepankiewicz from Poland.

Next on the festival program are the presentations and workshops of the world-known designers and jury members on the following issues “Macedonia as a travel destination”, “Designing of the influential social and political poster”, ”Poster, the art from the street” and “Designing a jazz poster”.

All the exhibitions (Finalist from 9^th Skopje poster competition; Posters from the winner of 8^th Skopje poster competition; Special selection of jury posters) opened at the yesterday’s festival kick-off will be on display for the public until 30^th of November.

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