THE PRESSident
Pamela Campagna, Thomas Scheiderbauer
Triggiano, Italy
Censure
Remi Gombert
Perenchies, France
Because this mouth is mine
Frank Arbelo
La Paz, Bolivia
Hello
Babak Madandar
Tehran, Iran
artwork n° 1693
Freedom of expression
Mingliang Li
Guangzhou, China
The 100 posters are a selection from about 1800 received from a poster competition, organized by poster4tomorrow who write:
100 posters that CAN say something
Poster4Tomorrow, the international poster competition to promote freedom of expression, is proud to announce the opening on December 10th of 22 exhibitions worldwide.
Our jury selected the best 100 posters of the 1834 entries we received. We far surpassed our objectives and we're equally as pleased with the quality.
We would like to thank from the bottom of our hearts all the designers, professors, students, charity workers who felt moved to helped us to spread the word about our project or enter a poster. The final selection will be revealed only on December 10.
Two marquee exhibitions will be held in Paris at the Louvre Museum and in Milan at La Triennale museum, while other exhibitions will be held in: Ankara Beirut, Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cheonan, Derry, La Paz, Lima, Los Angeles, Marrakesh, Montreal, Seville, Stockholm, Vienna and many others.
Finally, all the posters will be collected and published in a 96 page catalogue, by the comments of our jurors and of some important personalities in the field of human rights: Roberto Saviano, journalist and author of "Gomorra"; Jean-François Julliard, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders; Yoani Sanchez, cuban blogger; Zara Tofigh, the representative for Network Iran Human Rights in Italy; Françoise Schein, founder of Inscrire and many others.
We're also proud to announce that we've been granted the patronage of UNESCO and the Council of Europe: two of the most important organisations in the world for furthering legal standards and respect of human rights and humanity fundamental freedoms.
The approval from these two international organisations means a lot for our small but hopefully significant project. We hope these endorsements represent one more step forward in our quest to redefine the role of graphic design in the social debate.
A closer look
Key information
1st edition
Poster4Tomorrow is the first edition of an open competition to create posters to draw attention to, and take action against, the repression of freedom of expression.
From 03.09 to 5.11.09
We invited the global creative community to take send in posters to our website starting September 3, 2009. Our call for entries closed on November 15, 2009.
1834 poster for 67 countries
We received 1834 posters from 67 countries in the world.
9 designers for 100 best posters
Our jury includes: Marjane Satrapi, the author and filmmaker of Persepolis; prominent Iranian graphic designers Reza Abedini and Saed Meshki; internationally renowned graphic designers Alain Le Quernec, Pierre Bernard and Woody Pirtle; and Tommaso Minnetti and Pasquale Volpe, founders of the world's largest social communication project Good50x70. They selected the best 100 entries collected in this exhibItion and in a catalogue.
5 posters in a permanent collection
Five of the posters are now part of the permanent collection of the Lahti Poster Museum in Finland.
Worldwide opening on 10.12.09
This exhibition is part of a serie of 21 worldwide events all opening on December 10, 2009 to celebrate the 61ST anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4 endorsements
The projects is endorsed by charities Reporters Sans Frontieres and the Italian chapter of Amnesty International. We've been granted the endorsments of two interrnational organizations, the Council of Europe and the French Commission for UNESCO
MANIFESTO
Freedom of expression, the simple freedom to say what you want, about whatever you want, is a right that most of us can enjoy without even thinking. Even more now that the internet has given us a forum for debate and criticism wider and more instant than ever before.
Online, or offline, it's possible to say anything without any form of consequence, and most of the time we come up with nothing more profound than: Your album sucks. England is a shithole. Berlusconi is corrupt. But in many other countries freedom of expression is a much more serious subject.
People are persecuted and imprisoned simply for daring to criticise their governments, calling for more democracy and press freedom, or exposing human rights abuses online. It's just not right.
So on behalf of those who don't enjoy the same freedom of expression that you do, we'd like to invite you to create a poster for a better tomorrow - where we can all say what we want, whenever we want.
Our hope with "Poster4Tomorrow" is to spark a movement to inspire people to stand together against injustice across the world. A movement that will start next year and continue next year and every year until we change something. Because one poster is a start, hundreds, thousands will become a movement for a better tomorrow.
