News: Selected entries for the 1. Chicago International Poster Biennial
June 26, 2008, received from Farhad Fozouni

The First Chicago International Poster Biennial Exhibition will include the poster work of the following designers, listed by country or region, selected from over 1,600 total entries. In September, we will announce the gold medal, two medals of honor, and two special medals for typographic excellence and best poster with a social theme. More designers and posters may be included in the Biennial catalogue, which will also be announced by September. The list of finalists is available on www.chicagobiennial.org/finalists.html The winners of the Grand Prizes will be announced in September. AUSTRIA: Florine Kammerer BELARUS: Toreev Jouri BRAZIL: Hugo Werner Freitas CHINA: Cheng Ruei Cai HONG KONG: Pazu Lee Ka Ling DENMARK: Finn Nygaard FINLAND: Hilppa Hyrkas - Kari Piipo FRANCE: Philippe Apeloig - Michal Batory - Pierre Bernard - Francois Caspar + Violette - Ronald Curchod - Pierre Emm Meunier - Alain Le Quernec - Annette Lenz and Vincent Perrottet - Bruno Souetre GERMANY: Lex Drewinski - Detlef Fiedler, Cyan - Gotz Gramlich - Pierre Mendell - Daniel Wiesman - Hong Zhang HUNGARY: Istvan Orosz IRAN: Farad Fozouni - Peyman Pourhosein - Iman Raad - Mehdi Saeedi - Iman Safaei JAPAN: Takashi Akiyama - Hiroyuki Matsuishi - Shin Matsunaga - Toshiyasu Nanbu - Gaku Ohsugi and Yuriko Matsumura - U.G. Sato MACAO, CHINA: Kuokwai Cheong MEXICO: Jorge Matias- Garnica - Jose Manuel Morelos NETHERLANDS: Michiel Schuurman - Edwin Vollebergh POLAND: Miroslaw Adamczyk - Tomasz Boguslawski - Elzbieta Chojna - Justyna Czerniakowska - Stasys Eidrigvicius - Joanna Gorska and Jerzy Skakun - Krzysztof Iwanski - Roman Kalarus - Lech - Majewski - Michal Minor - Kasia Rogowiec - Wiestan Rosocha - Franciszek Starowieyski - Waldemar Swierzy PORTUGAL: Liza Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo, R2 RUSSIA: Igor Gurovich - Anna Naumava SOUTH KOREA: Chan- Woo - Szok Cho Jaewon - Hung Sungil SWITZERLAND: Eric Brechbuhl - Stephan Bundi - Remo Caminada - Domenic Geissbuhler - Melchior Imboden - Claude Kuhn - Bruno Monguzzi - Cybu Richli and Fabienne Buri - Niklaus Troxler TAIWAN: Leslie Chan Wing Kei - Jheng- Chang Chen - Lin Horng- Jer - Shih Chieh Hung - Minglung Yu - Jen Ping Wu UNITED KINGDOM: Richard Ardagh USA: Ben Barry, The Decoder Ring Design Concern - Jennifer Beorkrem - Michael Bierut, Pentagram - Mike Burton, Little Jacket - Emek - Christian Helms, The Decoder Ring Design Concern - Dan Ibarra and Michael Byzewski, Aesthetic Apparatus - Kathleen Judge - Jason Munn - Rocco Piscatello - Post Typography - Paula Scher, Pentagram - Michael Strassburger - Scott Thares and Richard Boyton, Wink