THE JURY
A pan-European jury panel made up of young design artists and well-known experts in the fields of graphic design and visual communications selected the 35 best contributions out of more than 750 entries.
The jury met on 14 September to select the overall European finalist from the 35 most creative poster designs.
The winner will be announced on 19 October 2006 in Brussels at the official prize ceremony and exhibition opening.
To see a gallery of the 35 shortlisted posters, please click here.
It is with pleasure that we announce the following jury members:
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1960 born in Salzburg, Austria
Admitted to AGI, 2003
From 1978 to 1982 Cordula attended the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She majored in graphic design with Prof. Herbert Schwarz. Consequently she got three more years of basic training with her typographic mentor Joey Badian.
With 24 years she became art director at DDB Needham worldwide, Vienna.
In 1987 she established her own studio „alessandridesign“ creating packaging-, editorial-, and corporate design, advertising and financial communication on the forefront of the austrian design and advertising community. A team of young outstanding talents always around her, Cordula encourages them intensely to creatively interpret their own ideas.at alessandridesign. Numerous national and international awards and publications reaffirm the high standards of quality alessandridesign is demanding of itself.
From 2003 to 2005 Cordula was teaching at the University of Arts in Saarbrücken, Germany. Her performances are mainly focused on „Sense and Sensitivity in Design“.
Cordula has two sons: Tiziano (15) and Lorenzo (9).
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Isidro Ferrer was born in Madrid in 1963. He graduated in drama and scenography, studied acting and pantomime at the school of Jacques Lecoq in Paris. In 1989 he implemented a stage in the studio of graphic designer Peret in Barcelona. After making story boards for an animation series in Zaragoza and Valincia, he established his own studio in Huesca in 1996. He combines his profession of a graphic designer with intense works in other fields like illustration, cartoons, animations for TV or the edition of children’s and other books.
More than 20 books were published in France, Portugal, Spain and Mexico. His work exhibited in Madrid, Gijón, Lisbon, Rouen, Rijeka, Bogotá, Quito, Turin, Paris and Mexico.
Isidro Ferrer has received several prizes as designer and illustrator, for example the National Design Prize 2002 and the National Illustration Prize 2005. He is member of the AGI – Alliance Graphique International.
“Stereotypes are platitudes that enable the society to tighten its assurances, its ideas or unchangeable images of character, their clichés that mutilate the reality, that compress and regulate the walls of what to accept in advantage of the assumed security. To accept stereotypes as standards of behaviour means to follow the mainstream, to avoid the peripheral path, to accept the conditions of fear, to construct a wall of certainties that buries all doubts. But the reality is hardly moderate, it is brittle and changing. Reality, like utopia, is always two steps ahead. The certainties, like reality, are only one point of view, an approximation of the world’s complexity.
To accept the world in its whole complexity and diversity means to open the doors to encounters, to construct a place of understanding.”
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Christian Küsters is the founder of CHK Design. The graphic design consultancy works with a range of clients in business, education, architecture and the arts on print materials, websites, exhibitions and film.
He is art director of Miser&Now, a new contemporary culture/arts magazine and has previously art directed AD Architectural Design magazine (2000-2006). He has also established the digital type foundry, Acme Fonts.
He teaches at Camberwell College of Arts, has written for a number of leading design publications and is co-author of Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design (Thames & Hudson, 2001). He conceived, co-curated and co-designed Design Now - Graphics, an exhibition on contemporary graphic design for the Design Museum, London (2002).
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Rasmus Koch (born 1970), graphic designer with an educational background from the Danish Design School. After graduation in 1997, he co-founded e-Types ApS, a graphic design agency, which in the late nineties reached international awareness by an unusual way of collective creativity. Since April 2001, he set up Rasmus Koch Studio in Copenhagen. He has, among many other assignments, created corporate identity for such prominent clients as Gyldendal - the oldest and largest publishing company in Denmark, The Danish Film Institute and the Information Centre of Danish Crafts.
Today his clients include a wide range of artists and international art institutions. The challenges and possibilities of graphic design in the field of arts are a main focus in his work – using design as a mediator, as well as working closely with the artist in content- and conceptual development. Other working fields of the R.Koch Studio are corporate identity, typeface-design, exhibition design and signage, magazine design, title sequences and interactive design.
Rasmus Koch has twice received the Danish Design Award. In 2000 for his identity programme for the Danish Film Institute and in 2003 for FilmX - Danish Film Institute’s computer-based, interactive film studio for children and adolescents. In 2003 he received The Danish Arts Foundation 3-year working grant. Rasmus Koch is much in demand as lecturer and tutor at home and abroad.
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Uwe Loesch, born 1943 in Dresden, Germany, studied Graphic Design at the Peter-Behrens Academy Duesseldorf in 1964 till 1968. He belongs to the leading international poster designers. His work is represented in all important museums and collections such as The Museum of Modern Art New York, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Le Musée de la Publicité Paris, The Library of Congress Washington D.C. and the Library of Fine Arts of the foundation Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin.
More than 30 one-man-exhibitions showed his minimalistic poster design worldwide, at last in 1994 in the DD Gallery Osaka, in 1996 in the Museu de Artes Brasileira São Paulo, in 1997 the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, in 2000 in the Galerie Anatome Paris and in 2002 in the ggg ginzagraphic gallery Tokyo. The numerous awards he was honoured with include the Grand Prix of the International Poster Biennial in Lahti/ Finland in 1983, Gold Medal in 1987, one of the first three prizes of the International Invitational Poster Exhibition Fort Collins/Colorado, USA in 1987, Winner of the Internationale Litfass-Art-Biennial Munich in 1989 and 1992, the Grand Prix of the international competition „German Prize for communication design“ Essen in 1995, the Gold Medal of the International Biennial of graphic design Brno, Czech Republic in 1996, the Silver Medal of the Festival d'Affiches de Chaumont, France in 1996 and in 1997 two Bronze Medals of the Triennial of Toyama, Japan. Gold Medal of the ADC of Europe in 1996 and Silver Medal of the ADC New York in 1998 and in 2001.
He is member of the AGI - Alliance Graphique Internationale, the TDC Type Directors Club New York and the ADC Art Directors Club for Germany. Since 1990 he holds a professorship for communication design at the University of Wuppertal.
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Marcin Mroszczak, DDB Warsaw. Creative Director partner.
Born in 1950 in Katowice (Poland). Graduates in the design in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Starts his professional career in the age of 21, quickly becomes one of the leading poster artists in Poland Work for the prestigious Design Company¹s (Pentagram in London, Tel Design in Den Haag). In 1981 represents Poland in the Biennial of the Modern Art in Paris. The publications about his work appear in many international magazines (a/o. Zoom, Graphis, Graphic Design, Advertising Art) and in 1984 he gets honoured to enter in the “Contemporery Designers², a Macmillan Publishers encyclopedia about designers and architects of the XX century.
He moves to Belgium and starts his advertising career first at McCann Ericsson and then at Corporate Profiles, a company founded by him. In 1992 he opens a Corporate Profiles office together with his two polish partners in Warsaw. The Company grows very quickly and becoms the most awarded advertising agency in Poland and gets the title of the agency of the decade. In 1998 Corporate Profiles merges with DDB. In the new structure Marcin holds the functions of the Creative Director and chairman.
Member of 2001 Cannes Lions Jury.
Jury President of 20th International Poster Biennale (Warsaw 2006)
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"’For Diversity. Against Discrimination.’, - I am happy to be a member of the jury who could see all the works that were send to this competition. And at the same time I am unhappy because not all of the participants of this competition will get a gold medal. From my point of view all of them are winners who take a stand for these ideas, who are ready to fight for "breaking stereotypes". Speaking in a general way, this competition is good for Europe, but let me be selfish: it is good for my profession as well: I am sure that the visual communication will benefit from this event.”
Istvan Orosz was born in Hungary in 1951. He was trained as a graphic designer at the University of Arts and Design in Budapest. After graduation in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer and animated film as an animator and film director. Later when poster came to the center of his interest he made mainly theatre, movie and exhibition posters. At the time of East-European democratic changes he drew some political posters as well. He is known as a printmaker and an illustrator as well. He is a regular participant in the major international exhibitions of posters and graphic art and his animated films are often performed in Hungary and abroad. Film director at the Pannonia Film Studio in Budapest, teacher in the West Hungarian University, co-founder of Hungarian Poster Association, member of AGI and the Hungarian Art Academy. He often uses Utisz as an artist pseudonym.
More information at www.utisz.net.
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Catherine Zask was born in Paris in 1961. Graphic artist, poster designer and writer – she is as multifaceted as the building blocks of her visual language. She graduated from the ESAG (Paris) in 1984 and started her career in 1985 as an independent designer. She works mainly with cultural institutions: University of Franche-Comté (1985-2002) – her work for the UFC was shown at the Centre Pompidou in 1991; Scam, Civil Society of Multimedia Artists (since 1993); L'Hippodrome, national theatre of Douai (1997-2006); the French Ministry of Culture (since 1998); University Paris Diderot (Paris 7) since 2006.
She taught at the Ecole de Communication Visuelle (1989-90), and at the Ecole d'art de Besançon (1992-93). She gives lectures and participates in juries in France and abroad.
Zask created Alfabetempo in 1993-94, during her residency at the Villa Medici, Académie de France in Rome. This work continues the research she began ten years earlier on letter, tracing and sign. A retrospective of her work took place at the Galerie Anatome (Paris) in 2004, at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in 2005, at Artazart (Paris) and at the Design Centre of the Czech Republic (Brno) in 2006.
Zask has won several awards, including the Grand Prix of the 20th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno in 2002. She is member of the AGI – Alliance Graphique Internationale.
Submissions will be judged according to the following criteria:
- Choice of motif: visualisation of the topic "Breaking stereotypes"
- Understanding of the anti-discrimination campaign context
- Creativity and originality of expression
- Poster organisation: clarity of presentation
- Universal appeal of the visual
- Ability to catch the viewer's interest
- Ability to promote diversity to a young audience
