Competition poster by Jesse Katabarwa, winner of last year's competition
This year, for the fifth year running, the poster festival Weltformat is organising a student international poster competition. Twenty posters will be shortlisted and unveiled at a special outdoor exhibition at the festival in Lucerne in October. At the opening of the festival, the winning poster will be awarded a prize of 1,500 CHF. In addition, 500 copies of the winning poster design will be printed and displayed throughout Switzerland after the festival. This year’s theme is «Visual Scandal». Based on the quote from Raymond Savignac «L’affiche est un scandale visuel» (The poster is a visual scandal), different ways of attracting attention should be explored. The jury is made up of the following people: Claude Kuhn, Paula Troxler, Daniel Peter, Nina Wagner and Bruno Niederberger.