18th International Lahti Poster Biennial 2011
10 June - 25 September 2011
Lahti Art Museum | Poster Museum
A new record was made in the number of entries offered for the Lahti 2011 Poster Biennial. As many as 6 958 posters (compared with ca. 2 600 in 2009) from 50 countries (49 in 2009) were submitted for the exhibition. For the first time in the history of the event, the submissions were sent as digital files to Lahti Art Museum. A national jury selected the works to be displayed from among the digital entries offered for the exhibition. The members of the national jury were the graphic designers Pekka Loiri, Hilppa Hyrkäs, Esa Ojala and Kari Piippo.
Nearly 300 posters from 36 countries will be on show in the 18th International Lahti Poster Biennial. Especially China, Poland, Germany and Iran are strongly represented in the exhibition. New participating countries in the Lahti Poster Biennial include Indonesia and Thailand. As in the previous exhibitions, there are two categories in the biennial, one for cultural posters, social and commercial posters and another one for environmental posters. The prizes will be distributed in connection with the Opening Ceremony of the exhibition on Thursday 9 June.
The prizes were awarded by a distinguished international jury. The members of the International Jury are Stephan Bundi from Switzerland, Gitte Kath from Denmark, Germán Montalvo from Mexico, Pekka Piippo from Finland and Péter Pócs from Hungary.
Posters designed at a workshop by the graphic design students of the Aalto University School of Art and Design and Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Design will be on view on shop windows in the city centre of Lahti in summer.
A commemorative poster exhibition to honour Professor Tapani Aartomaa (1934 - 2009) will be on view in the Sibelius Hall in Lahti from 30 June to 31 July 2011. The exhibition was first displayed in connection with the International Poster Biennial Mexico 2010 in the Puebla City Congress Palace. The Chairman of Mexico Poster Biennial, Xavier Bermudez, Professor Marjatta Itkonen and graphic designer Pekka Loiri were responsible for the arrangements of the exhibition.
The emblematic poster for the 18th International Lahti Poster Biennial was designed by Laura Suuronen.
The prize winning posters 2011 >>
LIST OF PRIZES
Grand Prix (3 500 €)
Grafia Prix (3 000 €)
2nd Prize (1 700 €)
Environmental Posters, Lauri Tarasti Prize (3 000 €)
Certificates of Honour
Lahti Art Museum | Poster Museum
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18TH INTERNATIONAL POSTER BIENNIAL LAHTI 2011
List of Finalists
2xGoldstein, Germany
Majid Abbasi, Iran
Miroslaw Adamczyk, Poland
Seyed Mohammad Ali Adnani, Iran
Takashi Akiyama, Japan
Iraj Mirza Alikhani, Iran
Onish Aminelahi, Iran
Laslo Antal, Germany
Renato Aranda, Mexico
Wilbert Arreola Garrido, Mexico
Mehrdad Asgari, Iran
Suvi Backman/Anna Polkutie, Finland
Ewa Bajek, Poland
Franco Balan, Italy
Liu Bao, China
Nadia Behdad, Iran
Eric Beloussov, Russia
Xavier Bermudez, Mexico
Pierre Bernard, France
Luis Alberto Boix Torres, Mexico
Laurent Bonnet, Switzerland
Michel Bouvet, France
Katarzyna Budka-Hajewska, Poland
Feliks Büttner, Germany
Eric Cai Shi Wei, China
Taber Calderon, United States
Pamela Campagna/
Thomas Scheiderbauer, Italy
François Caspar, France
Savas Cekic, Turkey
Vladimir Chaika, Russia
Jiasheng Chen, China
Gao Chenghui, China
Kuokwai Cheong, China
Angela Cherny, Russia
Yen-Chu Chiang, Taiwan
Chang Ching-Yu, Taiwan
Chiulin, China
Cheang Chi-Wai, China
Peter Chmela, Slovakia
Barbara Chodyniecka, Poland
Elzbieta Chojna, Poland
Vanja Cuculic, Croatia
Ronald Curchod, France
D.F. Ltd., Estonia
Li Dalin, China
Doppelpunkt Kommunikationsdesign GmbH, Germany
Richard B. Doubleday, United States
Lex Drewinski, Germany
Huimei Du, China
Krysztof Ducki, Hungary
Stasys Eidrigevicius, Poland
Koray Ekremoglu, Turkey
Saleh Elahi, Iran
Erdianban, China
Alexander Faldin/Svetlana Faldina, Russia
Faldin family, Russia
Liu Fangyi, China
Siavash Fani, Canada
Ye Fenquan, China
Małgorzata Frąckiewicz, Poland
Krisztián Gál, Hungary
Olena Galkina/Alla Lutovinova/Mary Butko, Ukraine
Osvaldo Gaona, Mexico
Osvaldo Gaona/family Gaona/Mareavisual, Mexico
KD Geissbühler, Switzerland
Gfeller & Hellsgard, Germany
Tomek Głowacki, Poland
Joanna Górska/Jerzy Skakun, Poland
Mona Goudarzi, Iran
Marta Granados, Colombia
Sergio Grande, Mexico
John Gravdahl, United States
Urs Grünig, Switzerland
Erhard Grüttner, Germany
Igor Gurovic, Russia
Alfred Halasa, Canada
Helen Hauert, Germany
Helen Hauert/Ramona Heiligensetzer, Germany
Jianping He, Germany
Lance Hidy, United States
Mike Hoi, China
Józef Holard, Poland
Liang Hongning, China
Jian Hou, China
Runya Huang, China
Huawei, China
Hilppa Hyrkäs, Finland
Bojidar Ikonomov, Bulgaria
Melchior Imboden, Switzerland
Bojidar Ionov, Bulgaria
Akitaka Ito, Japan
Mohammad Jamshidi, Iran
Urszula Janowska, Poland
Gao Jie, China
Liu Jinchuan, China
Du Jingqing, China
Liu Jun, China
Tomoya Kaishi, Japan
Ryszard Kajzer, Poland
Roman Kalarus, Poland
Michiko Kamada, Japan
Florine Kammerer, Austria
Huai Kang, Republic of Korea
Sandy Karman, Indonesia
Katarzyna Karpierz, Poland
Noriyuki Kasai, Japan
Majid Kashani, Iran
Dora Keresztes, Hungary
Davood Khalili, Iran
Ilja Klemencov, Finland
Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Japan
Masahiko Koga, Japan
Konsept83 Design Studio, Greece
Cedomir Kostovic, United States
Sebastian Kubica, Poland
Claude Kuhn, Switzerland
Scott Laserow, United States
Yossi Lemel, Israel
Alain Le Quernec, France
Andrew Lewis, Canada
Heyu Li, China
Zhenyang Li, China
Harmen Liemburg, Netherlands
De-Yu Lin, Taiwan
Leo Lin, Taiwan
Jianjian Liu, China
Jianping Liu, China
Yuan Liu, China
Uwe Loesch, Germany
Pekka Loiri, Finland
José Manuel Lopéz Rocha, Mexico
Hideki Mabuchi, Japan
Suy Makino, Japan
Zhang Manhua, China
Arata Maruyama, Switzerland
Akiko Masunaga, Japan
Hirouyuki Matsuishi, Japan
Kenichi Matsumoto, Japan
Shin Matsunaga, Japan
Holger Matthies, Germany
Adela Bedilia Medina Toriz, Mexico
Pepé Menéndez, Cuba
Yumiko Meya, Japan
Marcos Minini, Brazil
Martyna Miranowicz, Poland
Karel Misek, Czech Republic
Yu Miyazaki, Japan
Anita Hashemi Moghaddam, Iran
Santiago Solis Montes de Oca, Mexico
José Manuel Morelos, Mexico
Ruben Dario Moreno, Venezuela
Marco Antonio Moreno Noriega, Mexico
Krzysztof Motyka, Poland
Thomas Müller, Germany
László Németh, Romania
Marko Nikolic, Serbia
Nous Travaillons Ensemble, France
Zhang Nu, China
Finn Nygaard, Denmark
Akihiro Oishi, Japan
Esa Ojala, Finland
Konsta Ojala, Finland
Sergio Olivotti, Italy
Istvan Orosz, Hungary
Ulises Ortiz, Mexico
Pierre Pané-Farré, Germany
Katerina Pavlenko, Ukraine
Wolf-Dieter Pfennig, Germany
Eduardo Picazo, Mexico
Kari Piippo, Finland
Sándor Pinczehelyi, Hungary
Sarun Pinyarat, Finland
Władysław Pluta, Poland
Carlos Abraham Ponce Frias, Mexico
PROP4G4ND4 (Thrasos Tezapsidis), Greece
Michel Quarez, France
Antti Raudaskoski, Finland
Kaja Renkas, Poland
Simon Roth, Germany
Iwona Rypesc-Kostovic, United States
Hiroko Sakai, Japan
Ville Salervo, Finland
U.G. Sato, Japan
Jan Sawka, United States
Ling-Hung Sophia Shih, Taiwan
Hasegawa Shinpei, Japan
Masao Shirasawa, Japan
Vitaly Shostya, Ukraine
Shulinggui, China
Nancy Skolos/Thomas Wedell, United States
Eugeniusz Skorwider, Poland
Lanny Sommese, United States
Leonardo Sonnoli, Italy
Elmer Sosa, Mexico
Bruno Souêtre, France
Barbara Stehle, Germany
Laura Suuronen, Finland
Takuya Suzuki, Japan
Roslaw Szaybo, Poland
István Szugyizcky, Hungary
Felipe Taborda, Brazil
Yohei Takahashi, Japan
Muramatsu Takehiko, Japan
Nazanin Tamaddon, Iran
Xiaofei Tan, China
David Tartakover, Israel
Parisha Tashakori, Iran
Jouri Toreev, Belorussia
Filimonas Triantafyllou, Netherlands
Niklaus Troxler, Switzerland
Paula Troxler, Switzerland
Joanna Tyborowska, Poland
Patrik Typpö, Finland
Brad Tzou, Taiwan
Eric Osorio Valencia, Mexico
Johnney Van, China
Sidi Vanetti, Switzerland
Jukka Veistola, Finland
Fabiola Vera, Mexico
Visiotypen/Philipp Hubert/Sebastian Fischer, Germany
Robert Voss, Germany
Shinya Wakaoka, Japan
Gang Wang/Jinling Guo, China
Shang Wang, China
Miechyslaw Wasilewski, Poland
Zhao Wen, China
Yang Xiao/Li Xiadong, China
Zhu Xiaohai, China
Du Xiaoxiao, China
Yujun Yan, China
Chao Yang, China
Yuan Yanuan, China
Hei Yiang, China
Yao Yin, China
Chen Yu, China
Yuan, China
Filip Zagorski, Poland
Hooshyar Zaheryani, Iran
Dimitri Zakharov, Russia
Igor Zelenov, Russia
Zengdongxiao, China
Qingfeng Zhang/Manhong Wang, China
Wei Min Zhang, China
Zhouli ang Zhangyi, China
Qian Zhe, China
Bangqian Zheng, China
Zhang Zhengtian, China
Zhuliang, China
Agnieszka Ziemiszewska, Poland
Wu Zonghao, China