Skopje Poster Festival

13. Skopje Poster Festival Joining Global Design Movement on COVID-19

Skopje Poster — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:23:25 +0000

PLAKART is joining the global network of design associations and organisations, which aim to inspire a support movement in the fight against the pandemic caused by Covid-19 and all related challenges.

For that purpose, as part of this year’s 13th edition of the Skopje Poster Festival, posters by 75 world known designers from 56 countries – including Macedonia, will be exhibited. The whole initiative is realized in cooperation with “Poster Territory” from California, the Czech Graphic Design Association, the Moscow Biennale and the renowned designer Mirko Ilic from New York – known to our audience as one of the most inspiring designers and comic artists from the former Yugoslavia. Presented as well will be students posters that joined the call of our initiative, jointly we will contribute to spread mission goals and the voices of the artists.

Some of the designers that will be represented are: Yossi Lemel (Israel), Mirko Ilic (New York), Javier Borbola (Cuba), Adek Saputra (Indonesia), Peter Poch (Hungary), Tirso Cesar (Italy), Christopher Scott (Ecuador) ), Luis Rivera (Brazil), Erin Bright (USA), Robert Young (Great Britain), Nebojsa Gelevski and Laze Tripkov (Macedonia), Hitoshi Myura (Japan) and others …

The exhibition will be set in MKC Gallery from November 16th to 26th 2020.

According to the recommendations of the Health Commission and the Ministry of Health, there will be no assigned opening date, and all interested parties will be able to visit in accordance with the recommendations for compliance with the measures undertaken due to Covid-19 pandemic in the period from 10 to 20 hours every day.

The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia.

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Finalist of the “Include, Not Exclude” European Student Competition

Skopje Poster — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:07:41 +0000

We introduce you the list of authors of the 50 finalist posters from European Poster Competition “Include, Not Exclude” that were chosen by the international jury, taking part also in the 12. Skopje Poster Festival exhibition (18-24 June 2019).

Finalist – Winners

Denis Nesmeyanov ‘Society’ RUS
Ece Batur ‘Do Not Ignore’ TUR
Eduardo Ribeiro ‘The Sun Shines For Everyone’ POR
Gina Park ‘Wage Gap’ POL
Klaudia Zablocka POL
Luka Prstojevic ‘Peace’ SRB
Stefan Simonovski ‘Sports Inclusion’ MKD
Teodora Mladenovska ‘To provide accessibility everywhere’ MKD

Finalist

Aleksandar Popovski ‘Include Not Exclude’ MKD
Aleksandra Danzer ‘Not alone: mental health stigma’ CZE
Alina Varyvonchyk ‘HIV’ BLR
Andre Ramada ‘Equals’ POR
Andre Ramada ‘Milk up your mind’ POR
Andrea Kovacova ‘SchisoFRIENDia’ SVK
Anna Jeglorz ‘’Let’s unite’ POL
Anna Stefkina ‘Equal rights for equal people’ BLR
Barbara Fonseca ‘Pantone’ POR
Barbora Magulova ‘Don’t be blind’ CZE
Bartosz Zielinski ‘2’ POL
Beatrix Pap ‘Target dummy’ SVK
Czako Petra ‘Education for everyone’ HUN
Denis Maslov ‘Gulag-50’ RUS
Eda Rada ‘Dyslexia doesn’t mean not smart’ MKD
Filip Lang ‘Xenophobia’ CZE
Gabriela Stamenovska ‘Acceptance’ MKD
Grzegorz Kabas ‘Coexistence’ POL
Jam Shid Arasteh ‘Exin’ CYP
Jam Shid Arasteh ‘Order better than border’ CYP
Jan Berka ‘Joining in’ CZE
Jovana Nedeska ‘Man, I feel like a woman.’ MKD
Klaudia Pierzchala ‘Hate speech’ POL
Lorena Cipriano ‘Change of Heart Part III’ CHE
Maria Leonor Capricho ‘Not everyone can read this’ POR
Miki Pavlovikj ‘Can you hear me?’ MKD
Muhammet Keskin ‘Forget the target’ TUR
Natalia Przybysz ‘Break the circle’ POL
Natalia Przybysz ‘See me’ POL
Natalija Caiko ‘I am human’ LTU
Nauel Benku ‘I rather enjoy’ RUS
Nina Batinica ‘’ SRB
Oguzan Metin ‘The Creation of Black Adam’ TUR
Ozge Hazal Caliskan ‘Heavy words’ TUR
Pavel Esipenko ‘SayNOto***ISM’ BLR
Rafał Piekarski ‘Include excluded’ POL
Regina Nasirova ‘The other’ RUS
Tanya Smantser ‘Include Not Exclude’ BLR
Teodora Mladenovska ‘It’s not the legs, it’s the brain that works’ MKD
Tijana Savic ‘Ilussion II’ SRB
Vanesa Vachova ‘Wheelchair users’ CZE
Wiktoria Cesla ‘Children Hope’ POL

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Celebration of Winners of the European poster competition “Inclusion, Not Exclusion” with Humanitarian Creative Event

Skopje Poster — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:02:18 +0000

Skopje Poster Festival, in the realization of its mission, has planned to act in the field of raising social awareness for global challenges. Тhis year the challenge is entitled “Inclusion, Not Exclusion”.

Plakart – The Association of Graphic Designers and the Council of the SPF decided that the theme of the 12th European poster competition should be inclusion of the most vulnerable groups in the society.

Students from the European continent, through their works, have expressed a firm stand for fighting stigmas and taboos related to persons from the social margin, discriminated and inappropriately involved individuals and social groups. Students from the entire continent, from Portugal to Turkey, from Great Britain to Russia, participated in the contest “Inclusion, Not Exclusion”.

The main prize received by 8 authors is concluded of travel and participation in a week-long off-town workshop in Prespa, where the participants, together with highly renowned mentors from Switzerland (Stephan Bundi) and Macedonia (Kostadin Tanchev-Dinka), will work on creating additional artworks that will be exhibited as part of a traveling tour of the 12th edition of the SPF, which will start on July 15th.

Winners of the contest “Inclusion, Not Exclusion” are: Denis Nesmeyanov (RUS), Ece Batur (TUR), Eduardo Ribeiro (POR), Luka Prstojevic (SRB), Stefan Simonovski (MKD), Teodora Mladenovska (MKD), Klaudia Zablocka (POL), Gina Park (POL).

As an announcement for the exhibition of the competition’s finalists, which will be opened on June 18 in YCC, yesterday (within the frameworks of the 12th Skopje Poster Festival), on the plateau and the park, in the circle of the Youth Cultural Center, children from the Special Primary School “Idnina” (“Future”) were drawing using different techniques, in order to raise awareness of their equal role in society. The artworks of the children will be offered for sale for humanitarian purposes at the opening of the exhibition on June 18, when donors will be able to meet with these authors.

The project “Inclusion Not Exclusion” organized with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Skopje, will have its finale with a series of exhibitions compiled from the award-winning works of the finalists and complemented by all the other works created by the winners during the workshop in Prespa.

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Poster Competition “Include, Not Exclude” – 21. Century Challenge

Skopje Poster — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:17:14 +0000

Social inclusion is the process of improving the terms on which individuals and groups take part in society – improving the ability, opportunity and dignity of those disadvantaged on economic and social basis.

The European continent is considered one of the most developed continents on the globe, but regardless it is faced with a huge challenge, which is the social exclusion. Stereotypes, stigmas, superstitions based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity, or disability status are causes of the marginalisation and discrimination of people with disabilities.

INTRODUCTION OF THE TOPIC

Agenda 2020 (EU Programme) and Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development and Sustainable Goals for Development (UN Programme) are only small portion of the strategies that tackle issues of/or related to social inclusion in which people with disabilities and their needs are accordingly addressed and consequently include strong commitments against their marginalisation.

Few More Facts

Accordingly, is implementation of economic growth strategies properly considered to have sufficient impact on improvements regarding social inclusion and how do we precisely measure it? Furtherly, taking under consideration and analyzing unemployment rates in Western Europe (8,5%) and in Eastern Europe (5,3% – not including EU non-member countries), can we conclude that we are facing positive and definitive results on development on the issue of social integration of people with disabilities?

Even more crucially, shall this issue be treated partially, fragmentary or should we approach it more multidisciplinary, to enlarge the process of inclusion with goals that will improve the quality of life and the living standard? Foremost and hugely important, people with disability have to be involved in the processes of creating policies and improvement strategies, in particular to contribute to raising awareness of the public, to educate and underline the need of appropriate treatment and openness to marginalized social groups which will lead to advancement of the social cohesion!

COMPETITION DETAILS

The Poster, as one of the most important media in the history of humanity, has had firm influence on raising awareness and uncompromising impact in creating changes, historical turning – points. It is a strong media tool, that Plakart and Skopje Poster Festival has raised and promoted more than a decade, both in the homeland and worldwide.

Invited are students of arts, graphic design, visual communications from the European continent to take part in the competition entitled “Include, Not Exclude”.

This year, with support and in collaboration with Embassy of Switzerland in Skopje, Plakart is promoting the project entitled ”Include, Not Exclude” – Social Inclusion, 21. Century Challenge. It will be consisted of Poster – competition and Off-town workshops as final phase, in which best 7 poster – authors will be invited to the region of Prespa and Ohrid, and alongside their mentors, experts in the field of graphic design and visual communication from North Macedonia, Switzerland, will held 10-days workshops. Posters created at the workshops, as well as posters that will take part in the initial competition, will be exhibited at vernisagge in and will be enclosed in the specially produced catalog.

APPLYING INFORMATION

Applying is free-of-charge at the following link: www.skopjeposter.com/gallery2

Every participant, after online registration (if one has not already registered) may apply with 1, 2 or 3 posters. Allowed are only individually created posters, excluding group works.

The poster should preferably be in English, however, poster texts in all other languages will be accepted.

The poster should be printable JPG in B3 format (350x500mm) with the resolution of 300 dpi with CMYK color setting. Single file can not exceed 10MB. All used fonts should be in outlines or rasterized. */**

COMPETITION DEADLINE: 31 May 2019 (CET)

More information on Terms and Rules of Participation available at: https://skopjeposter.com/gallery2/?page=terms-conditions

Agenda of the Project „Include, Not Exclude”

1 March – 31 May

Poster – competition timeline

31 May – 6 June

Posters evaluation by international jury members

7 June

Announcement of the results from the poster – competition

25 June – 25 July

Mentored workshops in the region of Prespa and Ohrid

25 July – 1 September

Exhibition of the posters, street presentations across Republic of North Macedonia, Promotion of the catalogue.

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* No copyrighted material may be used for the design.

** The organizers will reserve the right to utilize the contributed visuals for presentation and media use and to reproduce all entries for promotional purposes within the framework of the international promotional activities and campaigns.

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11. SKP*F Revealing The New Decade Under The Motto „Power Of Poster”

Skopje Poster — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:50:53 +0000

New decade, new challenges, NEW ERA!!!

Aloneside all issues and institutional ignorance, Plakart – Associacion of Graphic Designer from Macedonia and Council of Skopje Poster Festival decided not to finish its vigorous life, but on the contrary to continue creating even better and more inspirational future for the one and only poster festival on the Balkans dedicated to young deisgners!!!

The Festival, which promotion of the poster as great and more lively media than ever before, will consequently continue to be advocate of the quality – social and non-commercial posters. Which is precise the reason why Council of Skopje Poster Festival has choosen the issue of this year main exhibition to be “Power Of Poster”.

This year unique festival’s program, significantly revised and accomodated to the circumstances that Plakart and the Festival struggled with institutionally and financially, was focused on all poster artists that have had a huge impact on Skopje Poster, and to be quite accurate as well vice-versa. Authors of the winning prizes, honorable mentiones from last 10 years of SKP*F were invited to create poster on the 11. SKP*F leading topic “Power Of Poster”.

Four more festival exhibitions and 200+ posters will be showcased: 1) 100×10 – 100 best posters from 10 years, 2) Works from the Special Guest Star Slavimir Stojanović Futro, 3) Posters from the poster – call as reaction to polution in Macedonia entitled #SMOGJE and 4) Posters from yourng designers from Hungary.

The official opening of the 11. Skopje Poster Festival is scheduled for Monday, 26. November 2018 at Multimedia Center >Mala Stanica< in Skopje at 19.00 UTC+1.

Next day, 27. November 2018 at ArtCafé-Bookstore >Literatura.mk< at 19.30 h. is reserved for the promotion of the Illustrated Stories “DEVET” – a new book by Slavimir Stojanović Futro.

11. Skopje Poster Festival will be opened for visitors until 6 December 2018.

Join us on another decade full of design experiences full of emotions, inspiration and creative force!!!

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International Poster Competition “SMILE Everywhere 4 everyone“ by Red Cross And Plakart

Skopje Poster — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:27:58 +0000

City Red Cross of Skopje, supported by the association of graphic designers „Plakart“ and City of Skopje as a party of the project “Red Cross school clubs for education and prevention” supported by City of Skopje, announce

International prize-winning competition on the topic:

SMILE „Everywhere 4 everyone“

On World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day and throughout 2018, we will celebrate the strength and reach of our global network, and the contribution of our staff and around 14 million volunteers through the theme “Everywhere for everyone”.

This year we aim to broaden the public’s understanding of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement by highlighting the diversity of our work and the universality of our approach. We’ll be using a simple call to action to share one of the most universal symbols – a smile. A smile is a universal sign of happiness, comfort, satisfaction. For a volunteer, it means a job well done. For someone affected by crisis, it can mean someone is ready and willing to help. We want to harness the power of this symbol to celebrate the dedication and impact of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, and their volunteers and staff. Our aim is to highlight how the Movement is addressing humanitarian challenges through original, innovative and unusual approaches. Focusing on community-led action and impact, we will share the positive stories of change and hope with the call to action “share what makes you smile”.

For purpose of promotion of the work of the Red Cross and promotion of positive changes in the community, the City Red Cross of Skopje, supported by the association of graphic designers „Plakart“ and City of Skopje announces prize-winning competition on the topic: SMILE „Everywhere 4 everyone“

The Competition will be open in the period of April 1 – May 1, 2018.

The Competition is targeted for high-school students and students at faculties / academies / colleges of art and design registered in an educational institution as well as all other professional designers regardless of their age. Each participant may apply with maximum three posters.

Group applications are not allowed.

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

The poster need to promote the topic of SMILE „Everywhere 4 everyone“

The submitted poster must be in the format 500 х 700 mm with resolution of 150 dpi in CMYK profile in PDF or JPG format. The files need to be smaller than 25 MB and need to be sent on the following e-mail: skopje.mladi@redcross.org.mk before May 1, 2018 (00:00).
All used fonts need to be vector-based or raster-based.
The selection of the best design will be done by a 3 (three) member commission comprised of representatives of the Red Cross, the City of Skopje and the Association of Graphic Designers „Plakart“.
It is not allowed to use designs/materials without copyrights.

The organizers reserve the right to use the submitted visual ideas for presentation and media purposes and for reproduction for promotional purposes in frames of international promotional activities and campaigns.

The authors will hand over all submitted designs to the City Red Cross of Skopje which can be used in future only by the Red for campaigns and/or activities for promotion and organizing volunteer activities.

City Red Cross of Skopje / Association of Graphic Designers „Plakart“ / City of Skopje

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Jubilee 10. Skopje Poster Festival Came To Its End

Skopje Poster — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:26:16 +0000

The closing of the recent exhibitions from Skopje Poster Festival at the Museum of the City of Skopje completed the 10th jubilee edition of this urban graphic design cultural project.

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.

Click for Photo-gallery from the Festival: 10. Skopje Poster Festival

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Winners of 10th Jubilee Edition of SKPF “Artificial Reality”

Skopje Poster — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:10:36 +0000

The 10th jubilee edition of Skopje Poster Festival for student posters “Artificial Reality” has overcome the expectations. We had posters from more than 68 countries from all over the world. The number of the faculties that are interested in introducing Skopje Poster as part of their teaching programs has increased. Also the interest of exhibiting the posters from the festival at their galleries is more than overwhelming.

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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Study Visit in Poland – Impressive Experience For Winners of Poster Competition #GOMK

Skopje Poster — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:03:10 +0000

During the month of May, three students from Macedonia got a chance to follow the steps of Polish poster masters.

As a result of the competition for poster on the topic “Republic of Macedonia as a Tourist Destination” (#GOMK), organised by Plakart, Polish Embassy and Museum of City of Skopje, three main award winners had a chance to go on a one-week study visit to Poland. The trip was the reward to Anastasia Jovcheska from FON University and Ana Petrova and Ivan Durgutovski from European University received for their posters selected by the jury – Ryszard Kaja (designer and illustrator, Poland), Laze Tripkov (Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonia), Jacek Multanowski (Ambassador of Poland to the Republic of Macedonia), Tomislav Mikulcic (Director of the Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia), Lasko Dzurovski (founder of Totem Design Studio, Macedonia).

Posters and contemporary art museums, graphic – design faculties, meetings with renowned designers were only part of the study trip program.

After their return to Macedonia we asked them to share their experience with their colleagues from their homeland and abroad who may find inspiration and motivation in creative expression, professional development.

Ana Petrova, graduate studies at the Faculty of Design and Art – European Faculty

An incredible journey to a place full of designs perfect in details. Beautiful buildings, mild salads, many posters and creative solutions, unforgettable company in cities that must be seen again. So far the most fun, creative and inspiring journey for me.

Anastasija Jovcheska, graduate studies at the Faculty of Design and Multimedia – FON University

Nice week with nice people in an even more beautiful place – Poland. Three different cities, a million awesome places that could not be described in words. Our short stay was wonderful, and most importantly, very creative and inspiring. Poland is my favorite place and potentially every following destination <3

Ivan Durgutovski, Master’s Degree at the Faculty of Design and Art – European Faculty

For me, personally, this is a great recognition and a stepping stone that enabled me to be part of an extraordinary study trip that changed me in many ways. Thanks to Plakart / Skopje Poster Festival and the Polish Embassy in the Republic of Macedonia, three winners of the main prize have had an opportunity to visit Poland and get acquainted with the way in which this country operates on a local and national level, and at the same time to become familiar with the core of Polish spirit and creativity, through the difficult historical experiences that this nation has passed.

Traveling is vital for every creator, because we gain new experiences, we get to know new cultures and their values, all of which directly reflects on our creative expression and changes our perceptions. Among other things, we had the opportunity to visit the most famous universities, museums, cultural and design centers, artistic hubs and at the same time to get acquainted with eminent persons from the Polish artist and designer scene. Thanks to this, our network of contacts has grown, and thus the opportunities for educational development throughout future cooperation at the international level are increasing.

The struggle and perseverance of the Polish people are definitely reflected in their working processes and successes in the field of art and design.

I sincerely hope that this experience will be additional motivation for students to engage more in this competition, and all student competitions in general. Competitions are the best student exercise!

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8. SPF Posters on a Mission of Raising Awareness About the Needs of People With Disabilities

Skopje Poster — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:26:25 +0000

Our poster shows in Serbia, Lithuania and Portugal were just the beginning of the Plakart and the Poster Poster Festival postreview exhibition season of 2017.

In June, UNDP Macedonia invited Plakart for cooperation within the conference on the topic “Improving services for people with disabilities”.

Within the framework of the conference, which took place on June 12 and 13 in Ohrid – Republic of Macedonia, the posters from 8. Skopje Poster Festival with focus issue “Enabled For Disabled” were designed by students of visual communications from 25 countries.

This two-day event brought together the most affected and targeted parties that raise issues for the needs of the most vulnerable social category, including the non-governmental sector, international organizations, diplomatic missions in the country and the public sector and state institutions. Participants and supporters of this conference were the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and Minister of Local Government Mrs. Mila Carovska and Mr. Souheil Fazliu, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Republic of Macedonia Mrs. Renate Kobler, Deputy Head of the Mission of the Swiss Embassy Mr. Stefanie Tomagian, the UN and UNDP Resident Coordinator in the Republic of Macedonia Mrs. Louisa Vinton.

President of Plakart, Gere Tripkov and Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mrs. Mila Carovska

Topics were divided in two-day sessions and aimed at improving of the integration of people with disabilities, deinstitutionalisation, opportunities to support active involvement in the labor market, encouraging institution to provide policies that would facilitate their inclusion in social processes.

The Plakart and SPF exhibition within the conference proves that the poster is an art that takes a prime place among the media that offer a quick, readable and concrete message. This has been noted by the great interest of the participants in the conference, representatives of the diplomatic corp and the representatives of the local and governmental administration.

Poster as an association of visual artists continues with the support of initiatives aimed at raising the awareness of the thorny issues of the 21st century.

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