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The festival, which was held from 14 November to 04 December 2017, offered exhibitions, master-workshops, design conference, panel-discussion, portfolio reviews with mentors, entertaining evening program.

The jury concluded of graphic designers from 5 countries faced difficult task of undertaking a selection of thousands of posters from 68 countries around the world submitted at 10th Skopje Poster Competition on the theme “Artificial Reality”. Hundred finalists, including four authors from Macedonia, took part in the honorary selection of best of the best. The main prizes went to designers from Poland, Jakub Sobczak and Russia, Daria Grekova, jury special awards were given to authors of poster-artists from Macedonia and Hungary, and the remaining 6 honorary mentions were received by young designers from Canada, China, Poland, Hungary.

The jubilee Skopje Poster Festival was visited by Leks Drewinski, Lech Majewski, Reza Abedini, Sven Soric and Hrvoje Spudic, accompanied by Macedonian designers Laze Tripkov and Ivan Durgutovski. All of them as festival’s guests and jury members contributed to great design/creative enjoyment.

Within the framework of the festival, on November 17, a panel discussion on the topic “Design and social inclusion” and a design conference entitled “5 Experiences for a Successful Design” took place. Participants and panelists were Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Mila Carovska, UNDP Deputy Chief of Mission, Narine Sahakyan and Deputy Ambassador of the Swiss Embassy, Stefan Tomagian. The Panel Discussion was complemented by a presentation by Laze Tripkov and regarded the influence that the design has on social changes and for greater involvement of the marginalized groups. This unique event offered useful experiences and served to create the grounds for further cooperation of the government sector and international organisations on the one hand and the creative workers on the other. Details about the initiated projects will be announced soon.

Alongside the jubilee competition exhibition, accompanied by exhibitions from workshops around the world, the festival featured exhibitions on a Contemporary Macedonian Poster with participation of poster-artists from the country, workshop artworks exhibitions mentored by Reza Abedini and Lex Drewinski, as well as an exhibition of “analog” posters by the duo Sven Soric and Hrvoje Spudic – This Town Needs Posters from Croatia. Finally, the special selection exhibition of 50 works by jury members was held at Four Restaurant.

The festival, supported by the Ministry of Culture, took place at 5 locations, the Museum of the City of Skopje, Brick Bar, Twins, Four Restaurant, Park Hotel & Spa and provided best possible expeirences and practicies for both design and creative scene in the region.

In the upcoming months, the exhibition “Artificial Reality” will be showcased in several cities throughout Macedonia. Abroad postreview exhitibion tour will start from Poland and Turkey, which are only first of the series of planned collaborations outside the country.

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The jury was concluded from five international judges: Lex Drewinski (Poland), Lech Majewski (Poland), Sven Soric & Hrvoje Spudic from the duo “This Town Needs Posters” (Croatia) and Laze Tripkov (Macedonia)*. The President of the jury was chosen Reza Abedini (Iran). After 4 jury selections the winning posters were announced at the main exhibition.

The organizer of the event and President of the Association “PlakArt”, Gere Tripkov presented the equal main-prize winners: Jakub Sobczak (Poland) and Daria Grekova (Russia).
The special mention from the jury was announced Sara Lehofer (Hungary) and the special mention for Macedonian poster went to Anastasija Jovcheska.
The honorary mentions are: Pascale Begin (Canada), Karolina Lubaszko (Poland), Emoke Peter (Hungary), Jin Wei (China), Pawel Gojowy (Poland), Piotrek Pietrzak (Poland).

We introduce you the list of authors of the posters that were chosen from the international jury:
Adrian Rovina /Croatia/
Aleksandra Kazakovskaia /Russia/
Aleksandra Szlęk /Poland/
Aleksandra Szymanska /Poland/
Alexander Kim /USA/
Alexey Litvinovich /Belarus/
Amber Lim /USA/
Anastasia Shemyakina /Russia/
Anastasija Jovcheska /Macedonia/
Anna Füzes / Hungary/
Beatrix Pap /Slovakia/
Berkay Altay /Turkey/
Bernarda Poblete /Chile/
Botond Csiby-Gindele /Hungary/
Camila Bravo /Chile/
Camila Contreras /Chile/
Carlos Arcos /Ecuador/
Carolina Andrea Baeza Osorio /Chile/
Chen Yi /China/
Chi Rong Kun /China/
Ching Wei Liu /Taiwan/
Cierra Krason /USA/
Clara Martin /USA/
Connor Olberding /USA/
Crystal Holloway /USA/
Daria Grekova /Russia/
Dastan Abaskanov /Turkey/
Dastan Abaskanov /Turkey/
Dušan Košanin /Serbia/
Edona Osmani /Macedonia/
Emma Damiani /USA/
Emőke Péter /Hungary/
Eszter Urbanovics /Hungary/
Eve Knaapi /Finland/
Fan Xiaoxia /China/
Francisca Dañobeitia /Chile/
Frank White /USA/
Grace Kim /USA/
Gregor Steinmetz /Germany/
Greta Jotkutė /Lithuania/
Greta Jotkutė /Lithuania/
Grzegorz Kabas /Poland/
Jackson Dillon /USA/
Jairo Acevedo /China/
Jakub Sobczak /Poland/
Jin Wei /China/
Joanna Lewandowska /Poland/
Joaquin de Oliveira /Portugal/
Jonathan Guzman /USA/
Justina Kaubrytė /Lithuania/
Juwon Seo /USA/
Karolina Lubaszko /Poland/
Katya Kudina /Belarus/
Kunlanit Yodudom /Thailand/
Lauren Bailey /USA/
Lenka Bollová /Slovakia/
Li Yarong /China/
Liz Ramos Contreras /Chile/
Lucas Perrier /USA/
Maciej Januszewski /Poland/
Marijana Ivanova /Macedonia/
Maya DeNofio /USA/
Miguel Angel Guevara Rangel /Mexico/
Milosh Ristoski /Macedonia/
Miro Denck /Germany/
Miro Denck /Germany/
Miro Denck /Germany/
Mustafa Gürkan Gürler /Turkey/
Najmus Sakib /Bangladesh/
Nikita Tunev /Russia/
Oğuz Can Yazgı /Turkey/
Omair Ali /USA/
Pascale Bégin /Canada/
Patrick Zelikman /Finland/
Patryk Krygowski /Poland/
Patryk Krygowski /Poland/
Paulina Pelikan /Poland/
Paweł Gojowy /Poland/
Paweł Gojowy /Poland/
Petchpreaw Limprapaipong /Thailand/
Piotrek Pietrzak /Poland/
Qi Zhang /China/
Qiangsong Sun /China/
Qin Lin Yu /China/
Rodrigo Cabello /Chile/
Romina Chamizo /Chile/
Ronan O’Hanlon /Ireland/
Sara Romanov /Macedonia/
Sena Yılmaz /Turkey/
Serra Kızıltaş /Turkey/
Sommer Montenegro /USA/
Tamara Bravo /Chile/
Tiago Toledo /Brazil/
Tuğba Mermerci /Turkey/
Viktorija Valužytė /Lithuania/
Yunxiao Yue /China/
Zhang Yulian /China/
Zou Ying /China/

The festival days continue with presentations and additional consultations for the participants of the workshops mentored by world renowned lecturers, whose works are exhibited in the world’s most important museums. The workshops topics are “Calligraphy and Poster” by Reza Abedini, “Lex is more” led by Lex Drewinski.

The main exhibition at the Museum of City of Skopje  will be opened for public until 1 of December. Along the main exhibition designers can enjoy in following exhibitions: Contemporary Macedonian Poster (Twins), This Town Needs Posters (Brick Bar) and Special Selection of the jury members artworks (Four Restaurant).

*Unfortunatelly, due to serious personal reasons we couldn’t host Alice in Skopje. Both we, and herself are very sorry for that fact.

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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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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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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.

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Skopje Poster Festival will again provide extraordinary visual experiences to the public – exhibition of posters, lectures from several distinguished graphic designers and of course party and networking meetings.

Opening of the main exhibition of finalist posters from the 8. International Student Poster Competition is scheduled for Monday, 30^th November at 20:00h CET. Along with the finalist posters works of the winners from 7. ISPC “Design for Peace” will be presented as well as the children drawings on “Enabled for Disabled” issue done under the mentorship of Jan Bajtlik will be showcased. At this venue the winners of 8. Skopje poster competition will be announced.

The following day, 1st December the design audience will enjoy the jury-members lectures. Issues presented by Peter Pocs, Lasko Dzurovski, Paula Troxler, Gotz Gramlich and Peter Bankov will be regarding russian design, design ideas development and execution, social poster, posters of cultural value, but also commercial projects that are part of the jury-members portfolios. All interested parts could RSVP at this webpage: https://skopjeposter.com/en/my-events//

“Beginning this year we are starting new initiative “Special jury works selection” – an exhibition of the most acknowledged and important posters by members of the jury.  This along with the exhibition of the winners of the competition makes Skopje Poster Festival very attractive for both participating students and the wider audience. “ – says Laze Tripkov, Chairman of Plakart.

Another inspiring event is on this year festival program, on 02^nd December students and graphic designers from Macedonia and region will join the meet-up with jury-members trying to promote their ideas, be advised on their portfolio or just to hang-out and have designers chat.

Exhibitions will close 05^th December which will be considered start of the “Enabled for Disabled” world tour.

8. Skopje Poster Festival  | Enabled for Disabled |

Skopje, Macedonia

30 November – 05 December 2015

30  November

11:00 – press-conference at YCC Gallery (MKC)

20:00 – Finalist exhibition 8. ISPC | winners announcement | works of winners of 7. ISPC | kids drawings

01 December

Presentations/workshops by jury members – YCC (MKC) – Pocket Cinema

11:00 – Short presentation of the winners of 7. ISPC Skopjeposter “Designers for Peace”

11:30 – Paula Troxler | Developing Design Ideas |

12:15 – Lasko Dzurovski | Macedonian cyrylic – yesterday, today and tomorrow |

13:00 – Götz Gramlich | In gggeneral – Commercial, Cultural and Social Design Projects |

13:45-14:00 – Break

14:00 – Peter Bankov | Russian Graphic Design |

14:45 – Péter Pócs | Posters and Ideas |

15:30 – Q&A disscussion

20:30 Opening of the | Jury Members Poster Exhibition | – MKC Club&Restaurant

22:00 After-party – MKC Club&Restaurant

02 December  

10:00 – 14:00 Meetings with students / designers | portfolio reviews, discussion, engagement meet-ups | – MKC Club&Restaurant

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Ferhat Tunc-Turkey, Aslihan Tatligil-Turkey and Johanna Pedarnig-Germany are the winners of this year Skopje Poster / International Student Poster Competition on entitled ‘Design for Peace’. Those three authors will be awarded with organisation of theirs exhibition and taking part of the jury selection in the next year 8th Skopje Poster! They also are recognized with Icograda approved certificate.Evrim Aktepe received the Icograda excellence award and honourable mentions were as follows Zhang Yichi-China, Marija Dimitrievska-Macedonia, Mary Yudina-Russia, Amadeus Fronk-Germany, Megan M. Brajkovich-USA, Minliang Li-China and Hrant Petorsyan-Armenia.

This year jury included famous Davor Brutketa from Croatia, creative director at one of the most awarded independent agencies Bruketa&Zinic, Iva Babaja, president of Icograda, Aysegul Izer from Turkey, Head of Graphic Design Department in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and Kostadin Tanchev – Dinka from Macedonia, one of the most famous Macedonian designers. Selection was very difficult as 2023 student posters were received from 44 countries around the world.

This year motto Design for Peace was inspiring to many students, and as Skopje poster official state, “we need more student projects as they are the engine of the design of the tomorrow”!Before the Skopje Poster Festival took place organisers from Plakart gathered kids and professional designers to work mutually on the design messages on peace. The result was 15 kids drawings and messages used by the professionals to make ‘Design for Peace’ posters.

Within the Skopje Poster Festival Regional Design Conference had been held on the issue ‘State of the Design on the Balkans and Its Integration in the Educational Processes’. This conference was the initiated in order to gather around the most difficult problems of designers in the Balkan region and in order to find answers how to be competitive to Western Europe design associations and what is the model for Balkan designers to receive as more benefits from both Icograda and regional and homeland initiatives. Along the above mentioned Iva Babaja, Davor Bruketa, Aysegul Izer and Kostadin Tanchev in the conference took part also Borut Vild from Serbia, initiator and participant of more than 100 international and domestic design related projects and Mila Melank, Secretary General of ULUPUBIH – Association of Applied Artist and Graphic Designers B&H.

“The design has time context . So by imposing certain conditions by bring additional frameworks to design does not work. The design is an artifact , the poster is an artifact which operates out of time and without a longitude and latitude. So it very often lead to a situation that we designers refuse job assignments because we feel that we are not given the proper design freedom expression” said Laze Tripkov of Association ” Plakart, organisers of Skopje Poster Festival/ International Student Poster Competition.

Skopje Poster is probably the first student project that organises and delivers longest exhibitions in terms of duration. The 7th Skopje Poster finalist exhibition was open on Friday the 5th and it will be open for visitor until 20th of December. Before the start of the Skopje Poster Festival Laze Tripkov had his solo exhibition at the same place which makes it a month of poster in Skopje.

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Association of Graphic Designers Plakart has its first exhibition in New York, but second in the USA, after the opening of the exhibition of Ecologic Poster competition from 2010, that was organized by prof. Cedomir Kostovic at the Missouri State University.

The posters  that will be exhibited at the MC Gallery will include works from the student participants and finalists from the first five competitions: “Tolerance”, “Power vs poverty”, “Ecologic”, “HIV / AIDS” and “Money for free”. From a total of 10.000 submitted posters, the 50 finalist posters were selected by members of the international jury, including 15 prize winning posters with the highest recognition, and the remaining 35 were selected as honorary mentions. Authors are student designers coming from Israel, Poland, Iran, China, Turkey, Belarus, Mexico, USA, Ecuador, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Russia, Germany, France, and of course from Macedonia.

“The exhibition is an initiative that came naturally after 5 years of Skopjeposter as urban design project with an international character. After Paris, Istanbul, Warsaw, New York City is the right place to once again mark the 5 year story of Skopje Poster festival.“- said Laze Tripkov of Plakart.

“50 finalist Skopje Poster” the next period will be on showcased in Minsk,  Dubai, and Prague.

The exhibition will be open at the Gallery MC today, January 24, at 20 pm, and visitors will have the opportunity to visit till 30th January.

Link to the gallery

https://skopjeposter.com/en/gallery-items/50-finalist-in-new-york/

 

Previous 50 finalist exhibitions

’50 finalists in Paris

50 Finalist in Skopje

 

 

 

 

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