The second China International Poster Biennial received 2070 pieces of works by 520 designers from 40 countries, from which the preselection jury (Kan Tai-Keung, Han Xu, Song Xiewei, Wang Xueqing, Lin jiayang) selected 142 entries. The International Jury (Kan Tai - Keung (China / Hongkong), Pierre Bernard (France), Mieczyslaw Wasilewski (Poland), Wang Xu (China)) met at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in October 2005 and selected the following winners:
Prize winners
Cultural posters
- Gold Medal: Sevan Demirdjian (FR), for "13th Dance Bienniale in Val de Marne"
- Silver Medal: Leonardo Sonnoli (IT), for "From left to right and back"
- Bronze Medal: Reza Abedini (IR); for "Victim"
Public campaign posters
- Gold Medal: not awarded
- Silver Medal: Cai Shiwei (CN), for "North Lattitude 32.0; East Longitude 118.7" (Series)
- Bronze Medal: Zhen Zhaohui (CN); for "Life Code"
Commercial posters
- Gold Medal: not awarded
- Silver Medal: Zhu Yong (CN), for "London Fashion Week"
- Bronze Medal: Lee Ken-Tsai (TW); for "E & E Paper"
Jury Awards
- from Kan Tai-Keung: Shin Matsunaga (JP), for "JAGDA Member poster exhibition 2003" (series)
- from Mieczyslaw Wasilewski: Majid Abbasi (IR), for "Bam, the everlasting heritage"
- from Pierre Bernard: Zhu Haichen (CN), for "Graphic design show by deaf-mute students"
- from Wang Xu: Andrei Logvin (RU), for "Stefan Sagmeister in Moscow"
A Grand Prix was awarded, but is now under consideration, "to verify the authenticity of the design idea", according to a message from Chen Zhengda, member of the CIPB Committee.
Selected participants
see the News from July 23, 2005.
Here are the winning posters:
Andrei Logvin |
Cai Shiwei |
Cai Shiwei |
Lee Ken-Tsai |
Lee Ken-Tsai |
Majid Abbasi |
Shin Matsunaga |
Shin Matsunaga |
Shin Matsunaga |
Shin Matsunaga |
Reza Abedini |
Sevan Demirdjian |
Zhen Zhaohui |
Zhu Yong |
Leonardo Sonnoli (see the News for a better reproduction) |
Zhu Haichen |
Some pictures from the Biennial:
China Acadamy of Art in Hangzhou, host of the Biennial |
The exhibition hall, with the biennial poster by Zhao Yan |
A preview of some jury posters in the entry hall |
The jury exhibitions
Kan Tai-Keung |
Pierre Bernard |
Mieczyslaw Wasilewski |
From the main exhibition
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The student exhibition
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home winners page created on November 16, 2005 / this section is part of Rene Wanner's Poster Page /