© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
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Now in its tenth year, the MAK is host to the exhibition 100 BEST POSTERS 14. Germany Austria Switzerland, which will show the hundred strongest design concepts in what is probably the hottest medium of everyday visual culture: the poster.
11.11.2015—28.3.2016
MAK Works on Paper Room
This year’s winning projects in the popular German-language graphic design competition amaze with their great wit, explosive color schemes, as well as meticulous workmanship, and serve as impressive proof that a poster can be more than just a banal advertising space. Furthermore, a large number of the winning works rely on subtly playing with typography. Even the production process was host to some innovative ideas: this year’s competition shows that posters can be knitted simply using high-tech processes and that a thermal emergency blanket can be used as the medium for a silkscreen print.
Hardly any other medium is so clearly geared towards consumption while also setting topical trends. “[…] time after time, the poster designer challenges him-/herself and takes pleasure in discovering successful symbols,” says Götz Gramlich, President of the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. He believes, “A good poster continues to develop its meaning in the mind of the observer.”
Comprising Richard van der Laken (Amsterdam, chairman), Christof Nardin (Vienna), Jiri Oplatek (Basel), Nicolaus Ott (Berlin), and Ariane Spanier (Berlin), the panel of international experts chose the 100 winning posters for 2014 from among more than 1 800 individual submissions—consisting of commissioned work, self-initiated posters, self-promotion, as well as student projects from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
575 entrants had taken part in the competition, 48 of whom were from Austria, 128 from Switzerland, and 399 from Germany. The front-runner among the top 100 posters is Switzerland with 51 winning projects, followed by Germany with 44 and Austria with 5 selected submissions.
Conceived by sensomatic design (Christine Zmölnig and Florian Koch, Vienna), this year’s catalog offers not only reproductions of all of the winning posters and their designers’ contact details, but also a fascinating article by Thomas Friedrich: On the dialectics of image and text in today’s posters. He pointedly elaborates the contextuality of posters, explaining the subject wittily and visually with the aid of a poster for a bullfight. Buy the catalog for more information!
Sensomatic design, Vienna, is also responsible for the corporate design of this year’s competition and the new web visuals. Since June 2014, the new online archive on the 100 Beste Plakate e. V. website has provided a complete overview of all award-winning works from 2001 to 2014.
www.100-beste-plakate.de
The exhibition is a cooperation between the MAK and 100 Beste Plakate e. V.
100-beste-plakate.de
Hardly any other medium is so clearly geared towards consumption while also setting topical trends. “[…] time after time, the poster designer challenges him-/herself and takes pleasure in discovering successful symbols,” says Götz Gramlich, President of the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. He believes, “A good poster continues to develop its meaning in the mind of the observer.”
Comprising Richard van der Laken (Amsterdam, chairman), Christof Nardin (Vienna), Jiri Oplatek (Basel), Nicolaus Ott (Berlin), and Ariane Spanier (Berlin), the panel of international experts chose the 100 winning posters for 2014 from among more than 1 800 individual submissions—consisting of commissioned work, self-initiated posters, self-promotion, as well as student projects from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
575 entrants had taken part in the competition, 48 of whom were from Austria, 128 from Switzerland, and 399 from Germany. The front-runner among the top 100 posters is Switzerland with 51 winning projects, followed by Germany with 44 and Austria with 5 selected submissions.
Conceived by sensomatic design (Christine Zmölnig and Florian Koch, Vienna), this year’s catalog offers not only reproductions of all of the winning posters and their designers’ contact details, but also a fascinating article by Thomas Friedrich: On the dialectics of image and text in today’s posters. He pointedly elaborates the contextuality of posters, explaining the subject wittily and visually with the aid of a poster for a bullfight. Buy the catalog for more information!
Sensomatic design, Vienna, is also responsible for the corporate design of this year’s competition and the new web visuals. Since June 2014, the new online archive on the 100 Beste Plakate e. V. website has provided a complete overview of all award-winning works from 2001 to 2014.
www.100-beste-plakate.de
The exhibition is a cooperation between the MAK and 100 Beste Plakate e. V.
100-beste-plakate.de
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
© MAK/Hanady Mustafa
© MAK/Hanady Mustafa
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Curator: Peter Klinger, Deputy Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection
Curator-guided tour
Thu, 26 Nov 2015, 5 p.m.
Curator-guided tour through the exhibition with Peter Klinger, Deputy Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection
Catalog
The exhibition is accompanied by the catalog 100 Beste Plakate 14. Deutschland Österreich Schweiz/100 Best Posters 14. Germany Austria Switzerland with the feature article On the dialectics of image and text in today’s posters by Thomas Friedrich, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, 2015, 216 pages € 34.80.
Media
Sommernachtstraum [Midsummer Nights Dream]
Studio: Erich Brechbühl [Mixer]. Client: Junges Theater Sempach
Durch die Blume [In a roundabout way]
Graphic design: Iza Hren. Client: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Detox Alimentarium Museum
Series of five posters
Studio: Studio Poisson. Graphic design: Giorgio Pesce. Client: Alimentarium Museum, Vevey
fritz-kola hauptsache wach [fritz-kola: awake, thats the main thing]
Series of five posters
Studio: Rocket & Wink. Graphic design: Gerald Rocketson, Petronious Amund Wink, Karolina Waal. Client: fritz-kulturgüter gmbh, Hamburg
Villa Verdin/Aktivurlaub am Millstätter See [Villa Verdin/Activity holiday at Lake Millstatt]
Studio: WIEN NORD Werbeagentur Graphic design: Georg Rernböck, Edmund Hochleitner, Andreas Lierzer, Katja Claus, Walter Janda
The Essence 14
Graphic design: Dasha Zaichanka. Project assignment at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Graphic Design class, supervision: Prof. Oliver Kartak, Katharina Uschan.Client: University of Applied Arts Vienna
Bags tell stories
Series of three posters
Studio: TBWA\Wien. Graphic design: Gerda Reichl-Schebesta, Bernhard Grafl, Robert Wohlgemuth, Julia Hengstberger, Tobias Werkner, Christina Niederdorfer, Robert Staudinger. Client: Ina Kent Lederwaren, Vienna
Etwas Rotes [Something red]
Graphic design: Enrico Bravi. Client: art in public space Lower Austria, St. Pölten
Burgers & Hip Hop Party
Series of five posters
Studio: The Adventures Of. Graphic design: Leila El-Kayem, Sophie Mayer, Kai-Uwe Niephaus, Sarah Hegyesi, Gunnar Triebel