Wanted: Tolerance! The Civic Duty of Graphic Designers

"Accompanying the Kunstbibliothek’s exhibition “Studio Tolerance”, graphic designer and illustrator Mirko Ilić will be joining us from New York for an online talk. As initiator of The Tolerance Project and author of “The Graphics of Dissent”, Bosnian-born Ilić has long pursued an interest in socially and politically driven graphic design. In this talk, he will give an introduction to his worldwide tolerance poster project and, looking into both historic and contemporary output, identify ways how graphic designers can answer calls to civic duty. The lecture is followed by a Q & A session with Christina Thomson of the Berlin National Museums’ collection of graphic design."

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Walking Tour at the University of Delaware

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 .

Tolerance on Veterans Day

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.

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...

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