Tolerance Posters

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....

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 .

We are pleased to let you know that we just received the first photo of the Tolerance Poster Show installation at The National Palace Nicolae Sulac. The show is part of the  "Creative Industries Festival 2024" in Chisinau, Moldova. It will open on Saturday, June 1. The festival is organized by the  Artcor Creative Hub . 

On May 17th there was a lecture and workshop called CITIZEN DESIGNER by  Ovidiu Hrin   (Typopassage Tm) and I at the  National University of Arts in Bucharest . At the same university on May 17th through 21st, a Tolerance Poster workshop was organized and held for design students and young professionals by Ovidiu Hrin and I. The lecture and workshop was part of "I ❤️ DOC” project, promoting excellence in graphic design and documentary cinema. It was organized by Insula 42 and National University of Arts in Bucharest. The posters created by the students at the workshop will be displayed at Amzei Creative Corner in Bucharest, a venue dedicated to creative industries run by  The Institute  in Bucharest.

  We are happy to share with you that we recieved the first announcement for the " ToleranZittau " Project   in Zittau, Germany which will happen between July 16th and September 15th, 2024. The project is supported by " Demokratie leben! ” and organized by “ToleranZittau Projekt” together with " Oberlausitzer-kunstverein . ”  The event includes a Tolerance Poster Show, and people of Zittau are also invited to create their own tolerance posters which will become part of this exhibition. ToleranZittau are also organizing a workshop and invited individuals, groups and school classes to join create tolerance posters together.  

I am happy to share with you that the Tolerance Poster Show which opened April 29th in Civitanova Marche was a part of their May Day Festival celebration.   At the celebration, among others, the mayor Fabrizio Ciarapica was present, as well as the deputy mayor Claudio Morresi, the vice-president of the city council Giorgio Pollastrelli, the city councilors Paola Campetelli, Paola Fontana, Piero Gismondi, together with the representatives of the Carabinieri, State Police, Guardia di Finanza, Captaincy of Port, Civil Protection.   The ceremony happened in different locations throughout the city. The final destination was the Cartacanta Festival exhibition of Tolerance Posters. This exhibition was created in collaboration with the Municipality of Civitanova, the MAGMA Museum and the Buon Vento Association.   This show was made possible through the relentless effort of Enrico Lattanzi , the director of MAGMA – Museo Archivio Grafica Manifesto . Photos by Luigi Gasparroni. ...

Angelina Lippert   is the chief curator and director of content for the  Poster House  in NYC, which, believe it or not, is the only museum dedicated exclusively to posters in the United States. She totally amazed me by writing this article in real-time for the Poster House blog about today's pop-up show at Union Square.  Here, you can read the whole article.    

In today's Daily Heller . "To date, most of the exhibitions have been mounted outside the United States. Some domestic institutions have signed up for the show, but have since decided to cancel it for unspecified reasons. It seems, in part, that tolerance has become politicized at a time when intolerance has risen throughout the world.  The Tolerance Project starts a conversation about inclusion, which can only begin with a foundation of tolerance. “The show utilizes the unique power of design to remind us what we all have in common,” says organizer Mirko Ilic."  

Here is a link to HUM News , one of Pakistan's most-watched news channels. This segment is on the Tolerance Poster Show in Lahore, which opened on September 16th in the Grand Event Space in Packages Mall, the city's biggest and best shopping mall. The show was organized and curated by Aarish Sadar, an associate professor at Beaconhose National University.