20th International Poster Exhibition "Lahti Poster Triennial" 2017, Finland

Publish Date: Jul 06, 2016

Deadline: Nov 30, 2016

Organizes

Lahti Poster Museum

Grafia, Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland

Poster Friends’ Guild

Categories

  • Cultural, ideological and social posters
  • Environmental Posters (The Lauri Tarasti Prize)
  • Posters by the theme Independence, category for students and designers under 30 years: 2017 the Republic of Finland celebrates its 100th anniversary of independence. What does the word “independence” mean to you?
  • Commercial posters

International jury

The prize winning posters will be selected by the International Jury.

Fons Hickmann, Graphic Designer / Germany

Tomasz Boguslawski, Graphic Designer / Poland

Parisa Tashakori, Graphic Designer / Iran

Erich Brechbühl, Graphic Designer / Switzerland

Klaus Welp, Graphic Artist / Finland

Exhibition

9 June – 24 September 2017

Poster Museum/Lahti Art Museum

Vesijärvenkatu 11 A, 15140 Lahti, Finland

Submission address 

The submitted posters shall be sent in digital form to the web address www.postertriennial2017.fi.

Works submitted for the exhibition and entry fee

  • All posters must have been designed after 1 December 2013.
  • Minimum size for posters accepted for the exhibition 42 x 60 cm
  • Maximum size size for posters accepted for the exhibition 120 x 180 cm
  • An artist or a group of artists may submit a maximum of 4 posters in digital form to the web address www.postertriennial2017.fi
  • The size of the poster documents shall be A4, RGB model, resolution 300 dpi.
  • After having paid the entry fee of 20€ the files will be received in JGP format at the web address www.postertriennial2017.fi, in which the participants fill a form containing the name(s), date(s) of birth and contact information of the designer(s), the dimensions of the posters (width x height, cm), category, year of design, client, poster titles and their translations in English.
  • The competition committee will choose the posters to be exhibited from among the digital poster documents. The posters in all the categories, A, B, C and D, will be sent as paper versions to Lahti Art Museum, address Lahti City Museum Collections´ Centre, Sopenkorvenkatu 9, 15800 Lahti, Finland or to P.O.Box 113, 15111 Lahti, Finland by 28 February 2017.

Selection

The posters to be exhibited will be selected by the organizing committee. The prize winning posters will be selected by the International Jury.

Rules

  • We charge entry fee of 20€ for 2017 Lahti Poster Triennale. The fee is paid at www.postertriennial2017.fi by registration.
  • Posters accepted for category A must have already been published.
  • The print technique of the posters accepted for the exhibition can be freely selected in all categories.
  • The entry form shall be filled carefully and sent together with the poster images to the web address www.postertriennial2017.fi.
  • The information given in the form will be used in the catalogue of Lahti Poster Triennial. The organizers are not responsible for information supplied by the sender in the entry form.
  • The organizers are entitled to stage exhibitions of the submitted entries in Finland and elsewhere. The organizers are entitled to reproduce submitted posters for information and publication purposes, for educational purposes and marketing without payment. The organizers are entitled to reproduce submitted works for the exhibition catalogue, in other printed matter and in digital form and to distribute them to the public via internet and other information networks.
  • The participants will be informed of approval for the exhibition by February 2017. The posters accepted for the exhibition shall be sent as paper versions to Lahti Art Museum, address The Collection Centre of the Lahti City Museum, Sopenkorvenkatu 9, 15800 Lahti or P.O.Box 113, 15111 Lahti, Finland by 28 February 2017. The posters shall be packaged carefully. The organizers take no responsibility for damage during transport.
  • The posters and image material will not be returned. They remain in the collections of Lahti Poster Museum.
  • The posters accepted for the exhibition must not be framed or mounted.
  • The results will be made public and the prizes and awards will be distributed at the opening ceremony on Thursday 8 June 2017 at 5 p.m.
  • All designers submitting entries for the biennial are heartily welcome to the opening of the exhibition.

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