Tolerance Posters

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 .

I am glad to let you know that I was invited to hold an 11-day Tolerance Poster workshop at   DesignSummer academy   (DSa)   in Hangzhou, China as a part of their masterclasses alongside other prominent designers and educators from around the world.  As a part of DesignSummer academy's hands-on design education program, DSa is hosting a Tolerance Poster Show that will open on September 1 at the DSa gallery in Hangzhou. The show will feature a selection of 80 Tolerance posters.  After the workshop, the posters designed by participants will be displayed alongside the show.

First announcement of our upcoming Tolerance Poster Show in Detroit. The show is opening on September 22nd, 2024, and will be part of the Detroit Month of Design . This show is organized by Donna Jackson the owner of DMJStudio .    

And the show goes on. We had the Tolerance Poster Show in Belo Blato in Serbia on April 23, 2023. I visited Belo Blato recently and I noticed that remnants of the Tolerance Poster Show are still there.   Here you can see some photos of show from April 23th.    

On June 2nd alongside a  Tolerance Poster Show  that was a part of the Creative Industries Festival (FIC) in Chișinău, Moldova, I gave a lecture titled "Design of Dissent". My lecture was about graphic designers' responsibility to their fellow citizens. It shows some examples of the Tolerance Project and lots of amazing examples of political and social design activism from different designers around the world.  The event took place as a part of FIC, organized by Artcor, with support from the  Embassy of Sweden in Chisinau ,  Agenția de Investiții din Moldova , The Technologies of the Future Project  Fundația Moldcell , and was funded by  Innovate Moldova ,  UK in Moldova - British Embassy Chisinau  and  Ministerul Culturii al Republicii Moldova as well as  USAID Moldova .