Eric Boelts
Member Information Eric Boelts Graphic Designer Eric Boelts is the owner of Brain Bolts. He has a BFA in graphic design and an MBA in entrepreneurship and marketing – both from the University of Arizona. Eric’s passion for teaching blended with his interest in the intersection of art and business in the world of design has led him to lecture at universities and colleges around the USA and internationally. Eric has garnered hundreds of awards in design competitions, with a focus on posters, throughout the world including the Czech Republic, Bolivia, Mexico, England, Canada, Russia, Poland and the USA. Eric is a member of design and marketing organizations, serves as a board member for agencies and companies and has judged design competitions internationally and domestically. Eric currently resides in Boulder, Colorado and is married to a genius jewelry designer with two amazing children for whom he cooks the world’s best spaghetti sauce. He runs long distances, paints with watercolor, is addicted to basketball and can both draw with a pencil and use a spreadsheet.
Helen Baranovska
Member Information Hossein Mohammadi Vahidi Helen Baranovska An award-winning designer, illustrator, photographer, artist and design events curator.She is member of the Designers Union of Ukraine and «Society of Designers» International Association since 2001. Member of the C-IDEA association (China) since 2017. Also she is co-founder of the DUU (Designers Union of Ukraine) in Dnipropetrovsk, co-founder and president of the COW International Design festival, which has been held annually since 2004. She has extensive experience in organizing and carrying out social projects such as: actual poster campaign, social poster exhibitions, conduct art therapy for wounded soldiers in a military hospital, an art auction to raise funds to support social projects and more.Helen has received many important awards including «Lege artis» Honorary Award and Medal of Honor from the DUU (Designers Union of Ukraine) for the powerful contribution she has made to the development of design in Ukraine and Gold Medal named after Alexander Rodchenko (awarded from «Society of Designers International Association) etc.Was invited to jury member, as a speaker and as invited designer for different prestigious design events in Ukraine, Austria, China, France, USA, Iran, Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan and other. She also exhibited her works at many important exhibitions, biennial and triennial in over 20 countries worldwide.
Jorge González Morales
Member Information Jorge González Morales Graphic Designer Jorge González Morales, He was born in zacatlán puebla mexico and studied graphic design at the Universidad de Oriente del Estado de Puebla (UO) and currently works as a professor at the Universidad Alianza Hispana, in Chignahuapan, Puebla, Mexico. He makes a political cartoon for television and radio media, has exhibited his graphic in 22 countries and is an active member of the International Network of Visual Creators AC.
Christian Lasso Rocha
Member Information Christian Lasso Rocha Graphic Designer Christian Lasso Rocha, graduated with honors in visual communication, specialized in Brand Management and Strategic Marketing. With 14 years of experience, he has generated 230 brand consultancies and 130 identity developments and corporate image studies. He has developed in the creative and art direction of various studios and communication agencies. He has worked in Management Analysis and Image Auditing for government entities and in environmental conservation projects, he has achieved more than 20 national and international recognitions, he is Ambassador for Ecuador of Behance, university professor, he also have Postgraduate studies in Project Development of Innovation, Culture Studies at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar and developing a specialization in Brand Management at the Instituto de Joan Costa. Founder of Designers with Heart.
Didem Catal
Member Information Didem Catal Graphic Designer She was born in Denizli, Turkey. Completed her proficiency in art degree in Hacettepe University, Institute of Social Sciences. Started her career of Assistant Professor in Department of Graphic Design, Faculty of Fine Arts at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in year 2009. Co-founded international poster design initiative “Like For Poster.” She continues her academic career as the head of graphic design department in the same university as an Associate Professor.She has participated and also invited designer in international and national design exhibitions and competitions. Her posters have been exhibited in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Iran, Japan, Ukraine, Poland, Mexico, South Korea, Macedonia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, United States of America, Taiwan, Japan, Ecuador, Italy, Cyprus and other places.
Chepe Jose Luis
Member Information Chepe Jose Luis Graphic Designer JOSÉ LUIS HERNÁNDEZ “CHEPE” Originally from the state of Puebla, Mexico is a graphic designer, he has a specialty in audiovisual communication, a master’s degree in political communication; José Luis Hernández Díaz “Chepe” is a creator by vocation. Within his work he has developed, brand design, campaigns.advertising, social, cultural and political; The design of the poster has led him to have national and international recognition, and to be selected in Biennials and triennia in various countries. He was the winner of the international award for! Design and winner of the first place in the international contest “International Year of Volunteers” convened by the UN and the visual plot.The countries to which he has traveled, exhibited and published his work are: Argentina,France, Spain, Bulgaria, South Korea, Japan, Bolivia, Warsaw, Iran, Slovenia, Russia,China, South Africa and Mexico, Finland, Cyprus, among others. His series “Love and respect for animal life” is part of the permanent collection of the Advertising Museum in Paris. Outstanding student of René Azcuy and Antonio Pérez Ñiko, hence the influences of his conceptual work. He is the founder of the International Network of Visual Creators A.C. He is a permanent part-time teacher at the BUAP School of Plastic and Audiovisual Arts.
Stefan Lechwar
Member Information Stefan Lechwar Professor of the University of Silesia in Katowice Degree Programme Deputy Director – Institute of Fine Arts.Since 2003 – lecturer at the Section of Graphic Design at The Institute of Art in Cieszyn. 2012–2013 – lecturer at the Institute of Arts / University of Opole. 2017–2018, lecturer at the University of Technology in Katowice.Since 2020 – lecturer at WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza.Range of activities: graphic design, illustration, painting and theatre. Participated in over 200 group and solo exhibitions both in Poland and abroad, including: USA, Mexico, Japan, China, South Korea, Iran, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, Malaysia, New Zeland and other.Jury member and curator of many Polish and international art and design events (South Korea, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Czech Republic, Indonesia).
Olga Severina
Member Information Olga Severina Graphic Designer, Founder of PosterTerritory project Olga Severina is a Ukrainian born graphic designer and an exhibition curator currently residing in Los Angeles, California. She is the founder and curator of a PosterTerritory project that launches socially conscious poster exhibits that promote poster art and a belief that a poster has the power to change the world. After obtaining her Ph.D. in Visual Arts Olga became involved with an International Eco-Poster Exhibition The 4th Block (Ukraine) and an International Graphic Design Biennale Golden Bee (Russia), where she served as a curator and a selection committee member for a number of years. Currently, Olga works for both poster exhibitions as the traveling exhibit curator in the United States. A few of her latest shows are: The World According to Love (Australia, 2019), Bauhaus 100 (USA, 2019) and The New Winds (co-curated with Majid Abbasi, USA, 2018), Biophilia Poster Competition and The World After poster call.A passionate promoter of the contemporary poster, Olga Severina is an author of poster books and catalogs as well as articles for magazines like NESHAN Graphic Design Magazine and AIGA LA chapter blogs, where she explores the latest trends in visual expression.As an artist, Olga Severina participates in a variety of poster shows and exhibitions worldwide. Most recently she took part in Cow International Design Festival (1st place) and Posters on Politics exhibit (artwork named one of the five most powerful political posters by the Daily Detroit).
Marco Natolli
Member Information Marco Natolli multidisciplanary designer MARCO NATOLLI, Venice, Italy, 1979, I am a multidisciplanary designer, born in Venice, in northern Italy.I belong to a large family with a centuries-old tradition of goldsmiths, gallery owners and carpenters.Since 25 years ago, i do design. In my free time I dedicate myself to the realization of social posters for exhibitions all over the world.
Sha Feng
Member Information Sha Feng Creative Director, Curator, Visiting Professor Sha Feng (1988) is a Chinese Graphic Designer and the Founder of SoFeng Design and the President of Associazione di Design Cinese e Italiano in Italia(ADCI). He is also the Visiting Professor of Zaozhuang University. He has curated many international exhibitions and has also served as an international judge for many competitions. Such as 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 A ‘Design Award, Italy / Jury, 2017, 2018, 2019AD STAR, Korea / Preliminary Judging. 2016 1th Ecuador Poster Bienal / Preselection Jury, 2020 Posterheroes, Italy / Jury and so on.His work has won more than 150 international awards, , such as: 2019 German Design Award, 2017, 2018 Red Dot Award: Communication Design, 2016, 2017, 2018 Communication Arts Design and Advertising Annual Competition（USA）/ Excellence Award, 2014 A ‘Design Award, Italy / Gold Award, Silver Award, 2016 The New Talent Annual, Graphis Inc.(USA) / Platinum Award and so on.His Poster Works have been selected for the Warsaw Poster Biennale, the Mexico Poster Biennale, the Golden Bee Graphic Biennale, the Brno Graphic Biennale, the Slovakia Poster Triennial, the Colorado Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE), the Triennial of Stage Poster Sofia, Bulgaria and other International Poster Biennale, Triennial.