Tolerance Posters

Within a few days of my posters for the  15th Miroslav Krleža Festival  being put up around Zagreb, Croatia, they were torn up and vandalized.  This is not the first time . This has been happening for the past three years. The posters for the Miroslav Krleža Festival are probably the most vandalized posters in Zagreb in recent years. Miroslav Krleža  (1893-1981) was a Croatian writer, widely considered the greatest of the 20th century. I created his portrait with his characteristic hat, and because one of his most famous novels is titled Zastave (The Flags), I made his profile from all of the incarnations of the Croatian flag during his lifetime. In the past, neo-Nazis and nationalists have satisfied themselves by tearing up posters, scratching off Krleža's name and the red stars, and carving a swastika next to one of them. This time, they were not satisfied just with drawing a swastika. This time, they decided to add two more symbols of hatred to the swastika. Lette...

On Thursday, May 21, the Tolerance Poster Show opened at the LKC plateau in Leskovac, Serbia. The opening was attended by the Mayor of Leskovac, representatives of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Delegation of the European Union in Serbia. These are links to some of the press releases about the opening: https://stav.life/putujuca-izlozba-plakata-iz-celog.../ https://resetka.rs/otvorena-izlozba-tolerancija-u.../ http://dnevnikjuga.rs/izlozba-tolerancija-otvorena-u.../ https://fonet.rs/.../izlozba-o-znacaju-tolerancije.html https://rominfomedia.rs/.../otvorena-izlozba-tolerancija.../ https://www.tv4s.rs/izlozba-tolerancija-otvorena-u.../ https://jugpress.com/otvorena-izlozba-tolerancija-u.../ https://dnevnikjuga.rs/izlozba-tolerancija-otvorena-u.../

We are pleased to share with you the first announcement of a new Tolerance Poster Show at   Berlin Design Week 2026 .  The announcement is translated below: “82 Posters. 82 Languages. One task: to visually translate the word 'Tolerance' — in one's own language, using one's own means. The Tolerance Project is an international traveling exhibition founded by Mirko Ilić — illustrator, former Art Director of the New York Times Op-Ed pages, and one of the most influential voices in graphic and poster design worldwide. The posters were created by internationally renowned designers from all over the globe. Since 2017, the exhibition has traveled through more than 50 countries and reached over 700,000 people. For Berlin Design Week 2026, the Tolerance Poster Show returns to the festival for a second time. 82 selected posters will be on display at Macherei — printed by Lieblingsdrucker Berlin. Political poster culture as a stance, not as decoration. A contribution that takes the...

As a part of the new show in front of NGPI St. Luke, in Sofia, Bulgaria, Albena Spasova, co-founder of the   International Triennial of Stage Poster   - Sofia, held a lecture showing, among others, Tolerance Posters that were not displayed at the school because of space limitations. Spasova also spoke about the mission of art — and of the poster in particular — to defend just causes, to shape public attitudes, and to cultivate civic intolerance toward all forms of violence and violations of human dignity. The lecture was held on March 9th for students from the Advertising Design and Metal departments. Albena Spasova, in 1994, cofounded the International Triennial of Stage Poster - Sofia. Today, it is the only international platform focusing on stage posters and their myriad incarnations.  Special thanks to Ralitsa Karapanteva, the director of the National High School of Applied Arts “St. Luka” (NGPI St. Luke), and Albena Spasova, for organizing this event .

We are pleased to let you know that tomorrow is the last day to visit the distributed exhibition "Crossing the Border, Tolerance." The posters of the Tolerance Poster Show, brought to the city by "Crossing the Border," are on display at the Trieste Covered Market, in Piazza Goldoni and Viale D'Annunzio. An installation of some of these posters is also present in Gorizia, in Corte Bratina, until the end of the month. The show was organized by   Cizerouno   Cultural Association as part of the Varcare la Frontiera (Crossing the Border) festival, with the support of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, and in co-organization with the Municipality of Trieste. Pictured above and below is the work of the   Performance Klub Fiskulturnik   collective, which debuted in Trieste on January 24th during the 37th edition of the Trieste Film Festival, and has generated great interest and participation after being presented in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom. ...

We are pleased to inform you that in 2025, we helped organize 27 Tolerance Poster Shows in 14 countries: Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Serbia, Switzerland, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Thailand, and the USA.   Despite the politically and economically challenging times, we managed to continue sharing the Tolerance Project with an audience around the world. These shows brought us to a total of 235 shows in more than 50 countries around the world. We hope to have more shows in 2026, especially in the United States, because of the 27 shows held last year, just one was in the United States.   You can see all of our shows from the past year and beyond here .    

We are pleased to inform you that a collection of Tolerance Posters features in the PQBK catalog, which showcases works from the   Poster Quadrennial Bardejov Kraków   (PQBK). The shows are organized by   Peter Javorík , a professor at the Department of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. The catalog features posters, not just from the PQBK 2025 collections, but also of the Poster Quadrennial Bardejov 2021 collections, accompanying exhibitions, the   Tolerance Poster Show held in Bardejov, Slovakia   in 2021, and four more related shows. The section containing the Tolerance Posters includes over 170 posters that were exhibited in Bardejov alongside the Quadrennial’s 2021 edition. You can see a PDF of the entire catalog   here .