In the current category we welcome posters that incorporate social or political messages as major aims to target specific audiences in different contexts. Within this framework we accept posters that explore a wide range of issues and pursue to have an influence on civilians’ lives as well as improve local or international politics.

For the purpose of this thematic we understand Spectacle as an Act. A theatrical, music, artistic or any other performance is seen as a culturally driven act. Under this category we welcome posters negotiating cultural action or activities as spectacle.

In this category we welcome advertising posters that have been designed for commercial use and are characterised by conceptua, authenticity and creative typo-graphic design direction.

It is common in visual communication that, occasionally, some exciting concepts don’t make it to be published. As a result, many great ideas and countless hours of hard work lie in the studios’ drowning rooms. This thematic category welcomes unpublished posters and offers designers a chance to display their unreleased work.

Borders are agreed limitations between two or more parties, as exemplified in the geographical borders drawn as administrative boundaries between nation states. Borders can also be social and cultural, visible or invisible, real or imagined, tangible or virtual, natural or man-made. They are double faced, looking both in and out, separating, uniting and distancing as they can function both as a dividing line and as a meeting point, as an end and a beginning. We mostly structure our self-identity through borders that operate as contours of our individual/ private sphere and as interfaces with the collective/ public sphere. Borders can be respected or violated, maintained or transgressed, evolving in the constant flow of natural events and human relations. Under this category we welcome posters negotiating the aforementioned thoughts.

Multilingual Posters develop typographic communication systems so as to accommodate text in more than one language. Such a challenging task needs not only to satisfy aesthetic and hierarchical criteria of Typography, but also to balance the information throughout the design space. Under this category, we welcome Posters that make use of more than one alphabetic system, but using at least one language from among the six official Languages* of the United Nations (UN) or one of the three procedural Languages** of the European Union (EU).

*Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
**English, French, and German

Emerging from the traditions of calligraphy and Renaissance typography Hermann Zapf (1918–2015), a native of Nuremberg in Germany, was a prominent book and typo-graphic designer whose typefaces are found and used all over the world. His view on typeface design as “one of the most visible visual expressions of an age” portrays not only how society and culture are reflected in graphic design but also inspires social change through the design of letters. Known for major type designs like Palatino, Optima, Zapfino, Melior or Zapf Dingbats, to name a few, the current category welcomes 50X70 cm portrait posters that communicate a quote or a typeface by Hernann Zapf or any other concept as homage and tribute to his work and particularly to his contribution to typeface design, typographic dingbats and graphic communication.