POSTER MONDAY: PUT OUT

POSTER MONDAY: PUT OUT

Keith Kitz
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POSTER MONDAY: PUT OUT

For the last Poster Monday of August we have the honor to present Keith Kitz’s “PUT OUT” poster. Keith Kitz (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the founder of Keith Kitz Design, a practice that has supported clients in the realization of their visual goals for over a decade. Kitz is also the Program Director (BFA and MA), and an Assistant Professor, Graphic Design in the College of Arts & Sciences at Suffolk University. His coursework runs the full spectrum of student development from fundamentals, the creation and implementation of multi-channel design campaigns, and theses. Kitz’s award-winning work has been chronicled in periodicals, books, exhibitions, and permanent collections throughout the United States, and globally in over 50 countries. He has also had the honor of contributing as juror to several poster competitions and a variety design events.

“PUT OUT a word play on Putin, is a call for an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine. This poster was designed for Stand With Ukraine, an open-ended poster campaign initiated by The 4th Block (Ukraine) and PosterTerritory (United States) inviting socially responsible designers to express their views on the undeclared war on Ukraine. The poster was made using a multiple step analog/digital process to generate the photocopied texture—a visual metaphor for Putin’s continuous nefariousness” tell us Kitz.

Outside of classroom and client commitments, Kitz established his 365 Poster Project. Since 2014, this purely experimental space has allowed him to embrace his passion for the form, generating a minimum of a poster a day annually. Kitz’s daily making has generated several thousand entries and represents a comprehensive range of personal, social, and political topics. If you would like to learn more from Keith Kitz and his work visit his website and typographic posters page.

Remember that all submissions are considered each week. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need in our submissions page, facebook and twitter.

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Poster Monday: No War

NO WAR
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Poster Monday: No War

The first Poster Monday spot of July  belongs to Chia Hsiang Lee from Taiwan for her poster entitled “No War”. Chia Is a social observer specializing in creative pop art design. Hundreds of awards have been won in major design competitions, not only in Taiwan but also around the world including France, Dubai, Spain, Slovenia, Peru, South Korea, China, Argentina, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Ecuador, Turkey, Mexico, Russia, Cyprus, India, Iran, Jamaica, etc. Recently invited to serve as one of the judges of the Turkish Bolo Poster Award and Taiwan posters from the 2022 Russia GOLDEN TURTLE Jury Coronavirus International Poster Competition has great enthusiasm for poster design, and develops design education and speech.

Chia Hsiang Lee tell us “The war between Ukraine and Russia gave me the idea; using the English word NO, it is converted into the shape of a tank, symbolizing the concept of anti-war, and showing the creativity of not war. The influence of the social environment inspired my creative inspiration”.

If you would like to learn more from Chia and his work visit his facebook  and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Poster Monday: Winter on Fire

Winter on Fire Mia Polcyn
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Poster Monday: Winter on Fire

For this Poster Monday we featuring the poster “Winter on Fire” designed by Mia Polcyn from Los Angeles, USA. Mia is a junior graphic design major at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

“We recently were assigned to create posters for the Netflix documentary titled “Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”. I was inspired by the iconography of the Independence Monument in Maiden Square, where most of the violence erupted in central Ukraine” tell us Mia.

Remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Poster Monday: Less War

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Poster Monday: Less War

In our first Poster Monday of may we present a series of posters entitled “Less War” created by Ian Perkins from UK. He was born and studied design and illustration in the UK, worked in design and advertising for many years, in the cities of NYC, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, Singapore and Taipei.
For the last 9 years Ian have run Name & Name design studio, based in Asia, working on graphic design and visual brand communication projects across Asia, China, UK and USA.

The Ukraine conflict is in the news. People are dying. “We were asked by Taiwan creative representatives to create a poster that could be passed on and used by Ukraine creative groups for peace promotion. For the poster with the peace symbol showing where there are no guns, the concept was “where there is no fighting (represented by the guns and weapons), there is peace”.
For the poster with the 2 guns pointing away from each other a heart is created where the handles meet – representing that when weapons are not pointed at each other, love (and peace, kindness and associated feelings) can be found. As a designer who creates mass messaging, usually to sell things, it is nice to use my skills to promote peace and to inspire others, and I am hoping for an end to this (and the other conflicts currently less in the news)” tell us Ian.

If you would like to learn more from Ian Perkins and her work visit Name&Name web page and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Poster Monday: Save Mariupol

Save Mariupol Irakli Bokuchava
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Poster Monday: Save Mariupol

This Poster Monday spot came from Tbilisi, Georgia designed by Irakli Bokuchava a doctor, bloger and publicist.

“Mariupol is new Guernica. This is Ukrainian city, which is blocked during month by Russian fascist invaders and bombing 7/24. Half of residents died, children, women. They were in the basements of the building houses. So this poster represents humans in the basement of the city, heroic Mariupol, which is bombarded day and night” tell us Irakli.

If you would like to learn more from Irakli Bokuchava opinion and situation in the region visit this link. Remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Stand with Ukraine

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Stand with Ukraine

During the very first days of the war the 4th Block Graphic Designers Association’s started an open-ended poster campaign called “Stand with Ukraine”. This poster initiative was launched by the Association’s founder Oleg Veklenko together with PosterTerritory.

It was amazing to see how quickly the collection grew, spreading like a wildfire across countries and continents, indifferent to authors’ social backgrounds, or political affiliations. As the Russian soldiers expanded their offenses these artworks stood in opposition, together with so many other voices all across the world that chose to defend Ukraine. Defend it with their protests, with their donations, and with their homes that they offer to Ukrainian refugees.

These images are not just opposition graphics or visual chronicles of the terrible atrocities faced by the Ukrainian people on a daily basis, they are also a symbol of unity. Unity of all the different peoples who believe in a world without dictators, besieged cities, and armies who aim their cannons at innocent women and children.

1st image
Volunteer Center. Dnipro, Ukraine.
COW International Design Festival / Helen Baranovska

2nd image
Protest in Los Angeles, USA in February 2022

3rd image
Talk at the Helms Design Center about the Ukraine War

Posters by:
Nikodem Pregowski_Poland
Anna_Black_Ukraine
Yossi_Lemel_Israel
Gilles_Dupuis_France
Patrycja Longawa_Poland
Chikako Oguma_Japan
Lex Drewinski_Germany

Text and images provided by Olga Severina

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Poster Monday: Super

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Poster Monday: Super

For this second Poster Monday spot of february we have a poster from Anna Kuzminskaya, she was born in the USSR (RF SSR) in 1984, is graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA) in 2007 Ukraine, from 2011 to 2020 worked in Moscow as graphic designer (focus branding) in different companies (Beta, Black Light and Moscow Manege) and now is a freelancer and live this winter in warm Batumi, Georgia.

About Super poster Anna tel us: “I love to do posters for cool project blankposter.com. It’s like exercising your brain. I try to find metaphors first or any emotional state with meaning. The word of this week is Super. I try to visualize the psychological trap that the Super category creates. Super cute, super sale, super news, super good… You look super… I was thinking about The Scream (Munch) like mood that I feel with the word Super. I decided to find screaming people on unsplash.com. In a short time I have found an interesting photo from Umit Yildirim (@umityildirim). It looks realistic, trash and sick in a good case. So alive. Like real life. I doubted whether everything worked together or not and decided to take a chance and published the poster. I was inspired and taught to make posters by Professor Vladimir Ivanovich Lesnyak”.

If you would like to know more about Anna Kuzminskaya visit her personal behance, and as you already may know submit your posters to be featured in our coming editions of Poster Monday.

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Poster Monday: Jerusalem/Holy Land

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Poster Monday: Jerusalem/Holy Land

For this Poster Monday spot we featuring the poster “Jerusalem/Holy Land” from the designer Ivan Volyanskyi. He was born in the large industrial city of Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine). In 2016 he graduated from the Academy of Engineering. Now I work as a motion designer, make animations and videos, and simultaneously make social posters.

This poster was created for the Golden Bee festival in the Heavenly Jerusalem nomination! Israel’s recent Independence Day; the poster shows that the Israeli people have gone through a lot. The main symbol of Israel. The Wailing Wall, which is depicted as a drop on a poster.

Visit Ivan’s personal behance and instagram accounts to find more about his work. If you would like to see your work featured in our site visit our submissions page and send your work.

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Poster Monday: Ephemeral

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Poster Monday: Ephemeral

Poster Monday this week features a experimental typographic design by Kateryna Zabusova from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is a third-year student of the Master’s Degree program in Graphic design at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia (Pilsen, Czech Republic). Kateryba participated in several collective exhibitions, including the exhibition of student posters Where is my home? in 2014 and Hell(p) and Stop Violence Against Women in 2015.

The aim of the poster was to present an experimental typographic project entitled Ephemeral. The assignment was to create a font without using the computer; “I have got an idea that light can be used as a tool to create letters with unique shapes. The fact that light has an ephemeral quality to it served as an inspiration for the poster, the title and the whole project” says Kateryna.

The letters were created with the reflection of a lamp light on a liquid surface. In certain parts of the reflection the light was obscured to create portions of letters. Each letter was captured in a moment when the light formed an identifiable silhouette and then became a vague shape in a few seconds. Such a process has allowed to make unique, unrepeatable images of something that has an ephemeral quality to it. Each letter on the poster is an ephemeral process captured on camera that visually represents the project.

You can find out more about Kateryna Zabusova by visiting her personal page.
If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need to participate in our submissions page.

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Sonia Delaunay 130

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Sonia Delaunay 130

Yesterday was the opening of the international poster campaign ‘Sonia Delaunay 130’ in Ukraine.  The exhibition celebrated the 130th anniversary of the birth of Sonia Delaunay who is a world famous Art Deco artist born and raised in Ukraine.   The event was organised by the 4th Block and Grafprom and featured some of the best poster designers in the world such as Elmer Sosa, Jacek Tofil, Mario Fuentes, Nikodem Pregowski, Phil Risbeck and many more.

 

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