Graphis Poster Awards 2027

I'm proud to announce that my posters have been awarded by the prestigious Graphis Poster Awards 2027, the Platinum Award for the poster Hedda Gabler, Gold Award for the poster Richard II, Silver Award for the poster Eldorado, and Honorable Mention for the poster The People's Deputy, placing them among the most distinguished achievements in this year's poster competition. All four posters were created for JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.

"After a rigorous review by our distinguished panel of world-renowned design leaders, your submission stood out for its clarity of concept, strength of visual language, and excellence in poster design execution. This recognition reflects the highest standards of contemporary graphic communication and affirms your place within Graphis's global community of leading designers.

As an award winner, your work will be prominently featured in the prestigious Graphis Poster Annual 2027 Digital Book and showcased across our official platforms, including the Graphis website and social media channels, helping strengthen your portfolio's international presence.” – Graphis

You can see more of my posters here.

Kunstbibliothek Posters Donation

Some time ago, the Kunstbibliothek-Staatliche Museen zu Berlin requested some of my posters for their collection. On June 22nd, while visiting Berlin, I delivered about 60 of my posters to them.

The Kunstbibliothek is one of the largest museum libraries dedicated to all facets of art history and cultural studies. Above and beyond this, however, it also boasts valuable collections on the history of architecture, photography, graphic design, fashion, book art, and media art. It's extremely diverse, vast holdings include works in a wide variety of media: first editions and historical postcards, illustrated placards and posters, fashion designs, architectural drawings and models, bequests of photograph collections, and Fluxus assemblages. Together, the library and the various museum collections it contains represent the full spectrum of source material on the history of art.

You can see some of the donated posters here.

J. Oscar Molina at the Venice Biennale

I am pleased to share with you some of the promotional material that I designed for “Cartographies of the Displaced,” a show of J. Oscar Molina’s work at the 61st International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. The show opened at the Palazzo Mora as part of the Exhibition’s El Salvador Pavilion. Molina’s show is the first to represent El Salvador at the International Art Exhibition.

J. Oscar Molina (El Salvador, 1971) is a painter and sculptor whose work explores resilience, memory, and transformation. He grew up along the Gulf of Fonseca during El Salvador’s civil war, an environment marked by conflict and displacement that would later inform his artistic vision.

In 1989, at sixteen, Molina and his family migrated to the United States, seeking refuge from the violence of his homeland.

Molina’s ongoing project, Children of the World, reflects his enduring interest in migration and human endurance. Cast in concrete, copper, and bronze, these sculptures—ranging from intimate to monumental scale—stand as quiet witnesses to displacement and belonging. Through these figures, Molina offers a meditation on fragility and endurance, grounding personal history in a broader reflection on the shared human search for home.

I am grateful to J. Oscar Molina and Project Director Matko Tomičić for this opportunity. 

You can see more pictures of the promotional material here.

 

Milton Glaser Show in Moldova

I am pleased to let you know that on June 3rd, the exhibition "Milton Glaser: ART IS WORK" opened at the National Museum of Art of Moldova. The exhibition brings together almost 50 original posters by Milton Glaser.

The exhibition can be visited between 3 and 27 June 2026.

The speakers at the opening were Tudor Zbârnea - the National Museum director, Viorica Cerbușca - executive director of COR, Cristian Jardan - Minister of Culture of Moldova, and Monica Irina Garcia - former senior manager at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Special thanks to Ovidiu Hrin for his effort that made this show possible.

 

Milton Glaser Poster Show at MSURS

I’m pleased to share with you some images from the opening of the exhibition 'Here's What I've Learned So Far' by Milton Glaser at MSURS-Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska, which was a part of the Museum Night 2026 event, on Saturday, May 23.

“The exhibition was realized in cooperation with the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina on the occasion of commemorating the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States of America.

The exhibition is organized as part of the "Freedom 250" initiative, which marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America and celebrates the ideals of freedom, creativity, and cultural exchange that still connect people around the world today.

The exhibition was opened by Daniel Koski, Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Assistant Minister of Education and Culture of Republika Srpska Tanja Đaković, director of MSURS Dr Sarita Vujković, and art historian Simona Čupić also spoke at the opening.

The posters presented at the exhibition are part of the collection donated to the MSURS by the designer and illustrator Mirko Ilić.

Milton Glaser (1929 – 2020) is one of the most influential creators of contemporary visual culture and the author of the cult logo ‘I ❤️ NY’. The exhibition presents a selection of posters and visual solutions by Milton Glaser, an author who marked the history of contemporary graphic design and the visual culture of the second half of the 20th century. His work strongly influenced the development of graphic design, illustration, typography, and visual communications, and he remained recognizable for the combination of playful psychedelic graphics, intense colors, and strong visual language.

A special segment of the exhibition is a selection of Glejzer's texts and reflections on art, design, and the responsibility of visual communication, which still today represent an important frame of reference for contemporary design practice.

His works are in the collections of the world's most important institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the National Medal of Arts awarded to him by US President Barack Obama in 2009, making him the first graphic designer to receive this award.” 

 

 

"Poster Thinking"

I am pleased to let you know that yesterday, I received this booklet from Spain titled Poster Thinking by Sonia and Gabriel Freeman, aka Sonia Díaz y Gabriel Martínez

The two head the visual activist group Un Mundo Feliz. UMF (A Brave New World) is a collective of designers interested in the creation, production, and distribution of committed images, both socially and politically.

The booklet is for the design school Artediez and uses work from some of the leading designers around the world, including mine, to discuss the importance of posters as a medium for information, not just as an art piece.

They also included a quote by me, although I’m not exactly sure when I said this:

“Content is very important to me. I am not particularly interested in pure design; I find it a bit boring. I have always felt that my design needs to push back against something. That is probably because of where I grew up. [...] Designers must have a logical explanation for their work. [...] I am not only a visual artist but also a designer. One aspect of that profession is information. The poster, as an informational device, must operate on two levels of information. The poster must convey the first level of visual information within four or five seconds. That is roughly the amount of time it takes for a person to walk past it. If that initial level of information succeeds, the person will stop—and perhaps look at and read the additional information.”

 

 

Lecture at the 11th International Triennial of Stage Poster

The four international judges of the 11th International Triennial of Stage Poster – Sofia 2025, Wiesław Grzegorczyk of Poland, Finn Nygaard of Denmark, Radoslava Boor of Bulgaria and Czechia, and I were invited to give a lecture to students and design professionals about our work. The lectures were held on the morning of Monday, December 15th, alongside the opening of the Triennial’s poster show. Unfortunately, Finn Nygaard, for personal reasons, wasn’t able to make it to the lectures.

The lecture is held in one of the exhibition rooms. This one was showing the work of the judges. Each judge had a wall to show their theater posters. In my case, I was represented by ten posters that I created for the JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theatre. I had the opportunity to explain the importance of using design work to promote activism and supporting causes you believe in through one’s artwork.