Tolerance Poster Show in the Clarissine Church in Bratislava, Slovakia

On October 7th, the Tolerance Poster Show opened for the 2nd time in Bratislava. This time the show was open in the Clarissine Church (Kostol klarisiek), a Gothic church that is part of a complex medieval buildings, and now it is used for cultural events.

On display are 51 posters along with some of the posters that were previously vandalized during a show on SNP Bridge. Symbolically, those posters found refugee from vandals in the church.

The show was organized by Robert Paršo and Katarina Hulikova director of BKIS (Bratislava Cultural and Information Center) and for that we are grateful to them.

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Tolerance Poster Show in Taipei, Taiwan

On November 24th, we had the opening of the Tolerance Poster Show in the Ximen Red House in Taipei. The Red House is a historical building that has over 500 visitors per day. The Tolerance Poster Show takes place alongside the Taiwan International Student Design Competition Award Ceremony. This not only enriches the exhibition of the award-winning designs but also introduces more teachers and students in Taiwan to The Tolerance Project. This show was made possible by the effort of Prof. Apex Lin, Prof. Leo Lin and Miira Lin. The announcement poster for the Taipei show is created by Leo Lin.

2nd Tolerance Posters Show in Zagreb, Croatia

On November 16th, the International Day of Tolerance , the Tolerance Poster Show was displayed in the center of Zagreb on the fence of the Botanical Garden . Here is a link to a short video of the show . Unfortunately only 24 hours later, the show was "attacked" by Neo-Nazis graffitis. On the posters, they wrote "NDH", which is the abbreviation for Nezavisna Država Hrvatska (Independent State of Croatia) a Second World War puppet state of Nazi Germany. On others, they graffitied the letter "U" which is the symbol for Ustaša the Second World War Croatian fascist organization. And they even wrote "Smrt Srbozločincima" (Death to the Serbian criminals). Luckily, the organizers of the show figured out how to remove this hate speech and the symbols. Outrage over this vandalism, was expressed through all news media in Croatia. Here , here , here , and here are some of the local media reactions. You can see the video of the show here . This show

"APD Talks" blog

I am pleased to share with you that I am one of the three designers interviewed by the APD Talks blog. APD (Asia-Pacific Design) Talks is a graphic design blog on Weixin (Wechat) . This particular post is about posters, and it's featuring, among others, my poster designs and the Tolerance Poster Show . You can read the interview and see more images here.

Tolerance Posters

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