Tolerance Posters

Established in 1940, Print Magazine is one of the most influential design magazines. It just announced its   Craft and Creativity 2025 Print Award winners . We are very pleased to let you know that the Tolerance Project won the "Special Award For Social Justice Achievement". "The Tolerance Project, which began in 2017, is a traveling poster exhibit, organized by Mirko Ilić, that celebrates and honors the starting point of all meaningful discourse: Tolerance. The Tolerance Project has brought a message of social acceptance to more than 500,000 people through 216 exhibitions in fifty countries worldwide. The posters appear in public spaces—in parks, on university campuses, even on buses—thus engaging with a wide cross-section of the population. Artists from every nation are asked only to illustrate the word 'tolerance' in their native language."  

Krakow’s poster columns, which until recently showcased posters from  the Tolerance Poster Show , are now hosting an exhibition featuring posters created by students as part of the international competition  Poster Challenge 6 . This event, which began as a modest initiative for students from a single university, has grown into a global competition attracting participants from around the world—from Taiwan to the United States. This year’s sixth edition received more than 2,200 submissions. From all entries, the jury selected 102 posters, now displayed on poster columns in Krakow’s historic Kazimierz district from April 27th to May 11th. Each poster was created in response to daily prompts sent by the organizers. This unique format – challenging participants to design within a 24-hour timeframe – is, as the organizers emphasize,  “proof of the ability to formulate a quick and precise visual statement – a skill invaluable in today’s fast-paced, ever-chan...

On April 25th, a group of educators and students from the  Institute of Art and Design at UKEN Kraków   took part in a walk along the Tolerance Poster Show route. The rainy weather did not stop the participants from engaging in discussions about the role of art and design in promoting and celebrating tolerance. More about the Tolerance Poster Show in Kraków  here .  

At the first Tolerance Poster Show in Ljubljana, Slovenia in March 2017, many posters were defaced or torn down . This March, we held another exhibition in Ljubljana to mark the seventh anniversary of the first exhibition, and the vandalism of posters happened again.  This kind of treatment of Tolerance posters occurs often, but exclusively in Eastern European countries. Why? We can talk about that. One thing is certain: whenever a local politician or wannabe politician publicly speaks out against the exhibition , the vandalism of the posters begins the following day.  

We are pleased to share that on March 20th, in parallel with the Tolerance Posters Show, the   School of Education, Communication, and Sports , part of Politécnico da Guarda, organized a lecture titled "The Fight Against Poverty and Social Exclusion is a Mission for All: And You, Are You Going to Be Left Out?" The lecture was given by Cátia Azevedo, representing   EAPN - European Network Against Poverty . In today's global and intercultural world, new questions have emerged regarding human rights. To promote knowledge and discussion on these topics within the academic community, the Citizenship and Tolerance lecture series will take place from March to June, in partnership with the "Step by Step..." project and UNITA.  

We are pleased to let you know that in parallel with hosting the Tolerance Poster Shows, ” Politécnico da Guarda “ (IPG), " UNITA - Universitas Monitum " and " Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior " (The Directorate General for Higher Education), an organization part of the "Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation" are organizing series of lectures on "Citizenship and Tolerance".  The lectures will be held in the different IPG schools. The first lecture is about the legacy of the Portuguese consul  Aristides Sousa Pereira . During the Second World War, he helped Jews in Germany to obtain Portuguese passports, and later he did the same with Jews in France. Despite the huge problems caused to him by the Portuguese fascist regime, Aristides Sousa Pereira managed to save 30,000 refugees, of which 10,000 were Jews. The speaker will be Aristides' grandson, and he is going to talk about his grandfather and his legacy.  The second lecture will be f...

On Tuesday, March 4th, at 12 PM, I gave a lecture titled "Design Activism" at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. The lecture was organized by Maja Budec Stanicic and Aljosa Puzar.