Tolerance Posters

To commemorate the   International  Day for Tolerance   on November 16, Mirko Ilic held a walking tour through the  Tolerance Poster Show   at the University of Delaware 's main campus.  The event was attended by students and university professors, including Suzanne Burton,  Sr. Associate Dean at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) , José-Luis Riera, Vice President for Student Life and Blažo Kovačević, who helped organise the exhibition and walking tour. This event was brought to life through the support of the Visiting Speaker Committee of the Department of Art and Design   along with   contributions from the Margaret P. Allen Endowed Lectureship Fund.  Here you can see the videos of the event here and here .  

In commemoration of Veterans Day, November 11th, the University of Delaware has decorated The Green with American flags. Together with   the Tolerance Poster Show—"Tolerance on the Green" , it creates quite a striking and powerful scene.  "Tolerance on the Green" opened on The Green at the University of Delaware on November 1st and will be on display until November 30th. 

We are pleased to announce that the Tolerance Poster Show will take place at the University of Delaware on November 1st. Forty tolerance posters will be on display until November 30th. On November 16th, in commemoration of the International Day for Tolerance , Mirko Ilić will lead a walking tour of the show. The tour will begin near Gore Hall.   You can find more information about this upcoming show  here .  

I am excited to announce that the Tolerance Poster Show will be presented at the LUMINE ART FAIR at LUMINE ZERO in Shinjuku, Tokyo, from November 2nd to 4th, ahead of UNESCO’s International Day for Tolerance on November 16. We are grateful to curator Aya Komboo, Professor Matthew Waldman, and SAMCARA Lab at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design for their relentless efforts that brought the show to life, starting with its 2023 debut at the Roppongi Art Fair. You can find out more about the past two Tolerance Poster Shows in Japan here and here .

On September 2, at the Tolerance Poster Show in Mostar/Bosnia and Herzegovina, a poster of Tarek Atrissi from Lebanon was vandalized. Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Tolerance posters have been vandalized, burned or destroyed. This has already happened in Zagreb/Croatia, Timisoara/Romania, Bratislava/Slovakia, Chelyabinsk/Russia and Ljubljana/Slovenia. An interesting piece of information is that out of exhibitions in 48 countries, posters were vandalized or destroyed exclusively in the countries of Eastern Europe. And this is not a coincidence, this same poster among others has already been destroyed a couple of times before. This already happened at the first Tolerance Poster Show in Ljubljana in 2017. You can read the text about it here . Or the text about graffiti "attack" by Neo-Nazis in Zagreb here .

On Friday, September 13th, an exhibition of Tolerance posters opened at the DSa gallery, located in a former cement factory in Hangzhou, China. The posters are designed by participants of the  Masterclass of Visual Design Exploration , which I led. The participants' posters are exhibited alongside the  Tolerance Poster Show , which opened in the same space on Sunday, September 1st. In the coming months, among others, Fons Hickmann, Shun Sasaki, Dan Solbach, Lin Shaobin, Peter Bankov, Mao Yiting, René Grohnert, Taku Satoh, Sven Ingmar Thies, Kakinokihara Masahiro, Marc Schütz, Chimo, Nikita Iziev, Yu Yuequ, Lizzy Onck, and Nejc Prah will teach at the  DesignSummer academy (DSa) . This masterclass is part of the DesignSummer academy (DSa), organized by  hesign studio  and the  Center for Visual Arts Berlin . Special thanks go to  Jumping He  and his hesign studio, whose relentless efforts made this workshop and the show possible.

Identity for Tolerance Poster Show and Tolerance Poster Workshop at DesignSummer academy (DSa) in Hangzhou, China. Designed by Hesign International .