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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The poster exhibition was opened at 17^th December, 2014 at the BUW Gallerry which is part of the largest and oldest Polish Poster Gallery, and will be opened till 11 January, 2015. With this final poster exhibition for 2014 PLAKART has finalized the activities for this year, and preparing for other challenges in 2015.

The “50 FINALIST | 2008-2012”  exhibition is consisted of 50 posters from the 5 editions of Skopje Poster, including topics like: Tolerance, Power vs Poverty,  ECOLOGIC, HIV-AIDS and Money for Free.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition was attended by  students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw who are regular participants and winners of the top prizes at the Skopje Poster Festival, professors and designers from Warsaw and Poland, honorary president of Plakart prof. Lech Majewski, and representatives of partner organizations: the prestigious Museum of Poster, Warsaw Poster Biennale, and officials from the Bureau of International and Cultural Cooperation of the City of Warsaw.

As a reminder of the 7th Skopje Poster Festival was preceded by the exhibition of the founder of PLAKART Laze Tripkov, which was officially opened at 17 November and lasted till 05 December 2014, at the MKC Gallery.

The 7th Skopje Poster Festival was marked by the exhibition “Design for Peace”, which included selected 100 student posters, out of total 2023 submitted posters from 44 countries. Also at the main event were displayed drawings as part of the action “Drawing for Peace” made by children of age 9-11 years old, and posters by professional Macedonian designers that have been inspired by the kids drawings.

As part of the festival was held the First Regional Design Conference “The State Of Design In The Balkans And Their Integration In The Educational Process” attended by Iva Babaja – President of ICO-D, Davor Bruketa – Croatia, Borut Wild from Serbia, prof. Aysegul Izer from Turkey and Mila Melank from ULUPUBIH from Bosnia.

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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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Setting which will be on display till 5 december, 2014, will include the 50 poster finalists 6th  Skopje Poster Festival , which was held in MKC Gallery from 14-24 November 2013 in Skopje. Just a reminder chairman of international jury was Mirko Ilic, design icon from ex-Yugoslavia, that had very difficult task to make a selection of over 1920 posters from 38 countries.

“This is seventh exhibition of posters Plakart in this country and reflects the long-term cooperation with one of the largest universities in Turkey, Marmara University or Faculty of Fine Arts. “Said Laze Tripkov, founder and Plakart Skopje Festival Poster.

After postreview exhibitions in New York, Istanbul, Prague, Lisabon,  Plakart and Skopje Poster will open an exhibition in Warsaw, Poland, in the second half of December.

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