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.

Identity for Tolerance Poster Show and Tolerance Poster Workshop at DesignSummer academy (DSa) in Hangzhou, China. Designed by Hesign International .

I am glad to let you know that I was invited to hold an 11-day Tolerance Poster workshop at   DesignSummer academy   (DSa)   in Hangzhou, China as a part of their masterclasses alongside other prominent designers and educators from around the world.  As a part of DesignSummer academy's hands-on design education program, DSa is hosting a Tolerance Poster Show that will open on September 1 at the DSa gallery in Hangzhou. The show will feature a selection of 80 Tolerance posters.  After the workshop, the posters designed by participants will be displayed alongside the show.

I am pleased to let you know that today   Steven Heller   published a post about the "Students for Tolerance" workshop in his prestigious blog "The Daily Heller". Inspired by the "Tolerance Project", this initiative was started by   Tomislav Bobinec   a professor at the Institute of Design and Communication at FH Joanneum Graz in Austria. This is the second year of the "Students for Tolerance" workshop and is a collaboration of art school students from different European countries. You can read Steven Hellers post here .  

As part of the Tolerance Poster Show, during the week of March 27th, 2023, I held a Tolerance Poster workshop for the students at the MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. After the workshop, the student posters were displayed on the wall of the school's main lobby, where the Tolerance Poster Show's posters were displayed on the floor.   The workshop was organized by prof. Simon Bence Péter, and it was made possible with the support of the MOME Foundation as part of the "Global Voices at MOME" initiative. Photos by Máté Lakos.    

On January 21st,  June Art Home 's students, aged 16-18, were invited to create their own Tolerance posters. Since there is no direct translation for the word tolerance in the Thai language, the students of  June Art Home  found their own replacement for that word. They designed their Tolerance posters based on them. To be inspired in their creation, the students were surrounded by the official Tolerance posters created by professional artists. At the end of the workshop, the students' Tolerance posters were on display alongside the official Tolerance Poster Show. The event also included movie screenings and students reading stories. The founder of  June Art Home , Chitlada Wiriyaprasit - June, hopes that after this experience, the students can be inspired to develop their artistic skills and social responsibilities.   Chitlada Wiriyaprasit - June opened her schoolin 1997. Her school focus on kids and youth. She teach her student with open-end in mind, that make her student hav

On October 24th 2022, Mirko Ilić gave the lecture " Design Activism " on the importance of free expression, art activism and youth engagement through design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the lecture, there was an opening of a tolerance poster show. The show was the result of the workshop of students from four art academies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Trebinje and Široki Brijeg). The show was opened by professor  Bojan Hadžihalilović  and Ferdinand Koenig, Head of Communications/Spokesperson, Delegation of the European Union to BiH & European Union Special Representative in BiH. Moreover, the tolerance poster show and the Tolerance workshop with the fine art academies are realized to mark 2022 – the European Year of Youth. They are supported by the  European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina  & the  EU Info Centre in BiH .  

  Inspired by the travelling Tolerance Poster Show , Tomislav Bobinec, a professor at FH JOANNEUM Design & Kommunikation in Graz, Austria, came up with the idea and organized a workshop with design students from the Institute of Design & Communication of the FH JOANNEUM in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, Germany, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the School of Design University of Zagreb, Croatia. Posters created at the workshop are of a wide range of design approaches and became part of the “Students for Tolerance” exhibition. After being exhibited in Graz at the Design Monat festival, in Berlin during the Berlin Design Week and in Ljubljana, the exhibition took place in the Republic of Croatia Square in Zagreb, which is in front of the School of Applied Arts and Design and the Museum of Arts and Crafts.   This morning, a “citizen” told the police that one of the posters from the exhibition offended him with its content. Later, a group of