Maria Papaefstathiou
Member Information Maria Papaefstathiou co-founder of the International Reggae Poster Maria Papaefstathiou aka It’s Just Me is a visual designer and blogger. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on portrait and social poster design. Her ongoing poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc.She is the co-founder of the INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee.Maria is the founder and editor of the inspirational blog Graphic Art News, where she carefully selects and presents high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool.She has been awarded and invited several times to participate and exhibit Internationally her posters in group exhibitions from 2012 to today.
He Huang
Member Information He Huang Brand person, vision worker, curator. Born in 1977.He is a visiting professor at several design universities in China. He has served as a jury for several international design competitions.Expert of China brand management research center.New Youth Designers Alliance Secretary General Worked in HAKUHODO, FCB, LEOBURNETT and other international 4A companies.Won the Taiwan International Graphic Design Award 2019 gold award,New York advertising award, London advertising award, McDonald’s Asia award, Berlin advertising award, Leoburnett global award, China advertising award, China times award and many other awards.More than 100 design works have been selected in France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Poland, the United States, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Slovakia, South Korea, Mexico and other international design exhibition.
Chang Fang Pang
Member Information Chang Fang Pang Taiwan Kaohsiung Creators Association President Mr.Chang Teach Shih Chien University, Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising as Lecturer, He served as the final Jury for the 2020 Turkish Bolu International Poster Design Award, the 2019 CIDEA International Jury Team, and has curated international exhibitions in the Czech Republic and South Korea. His creation was shortlisted for the Murakami Takashi GEISAI-TAIWAN # 3 Art Award, as well as two consecutive Asian Youth Creation Awards and other important awards. His poster works have been arranged in the Czech Republic, Iran, Ukraine, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Macau, the United States, Taiwan, Poland and other places.
Anna Klos
Member Information Anna Klos founder and owner of Retroavangarda Gallery Born in Warsaw. She specializes in poster design, book design and non-commercial collages. She finished her diploma in poster and graduated with honors in 1999 under professor Julian Pałka and professor Mieczysław Wasilewski. In the same year she has begun her didactic work. In 2007 she got her phD degree at Art Faculty of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin for defending her doctoral thesis ‘Dadaist collage as an inspiration for my artwork’.In 2002-2010 she worked with the publishing company Bertelsmann Media where she designed hundreds of book covers and layouts mainly for high-volume titles. She took part in numerous contests and group exhibitions. Since 2008 she has been teaching graphic design and giving lectures on history of graphic design in Warsaw School of Information Technology. Since 2010 she has acted as proxy of the dean at the Graphic Design faculty, she is also a member of the Senate of the University and of the Faculty Council for the term 2013-17 and 2017-21. In 2012 she received the Medal of the National Education Commission. In 2017 she was in the jury of International Poster Competition ‘Escucha mi Voz’ organized in Mexico under the patronage on UNESCO and in 2018 she was in the jury of international poster contest Ecuador Poster Bienal. She is a member of China International Design Educator Association (C-IDEA). Her professional interests include not only poster but also contemporary painting, graphics and art market. She is the founder and owner of Retroavangarda Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. In 2019 Anna Kłos became a curator to a second gallery – WIT Gallery in Warsaw located in the building of the school she works at.WIT Gallery’s main goal is to present pieces of students and professors by organizing international exhibitions.
Christopher Scott
Member Information Christopher Scott Graphic designer, President and Founder of the Ecuador Poster Bienal Christopher Scott is an internationally recognised award-winning designer. Born in Northern Ireland, he received both a bachelors and a Masters degree in Design from the University of Ulster, Magee. The concepts of his posters are paramount to his visuals, and his work communicates strong and meaningful messages with humanity at the core of his designs. Scott has won more than 200 international awards and has been recognised by many organisations such as the International Poster Biennale Warsaw, Poster For Tomorrow, Designboom, Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design Golden Bee, Adobe Design Achievement Awards and he received a silver medal in the International Design Awards and also 3 Gold awards at the prestigious Graphis in United States.His work has been exhibited all around the world including countries such as Mexico, Russia, China, Korea, Ecuador, Germany, Poland, Italy, Peru, Korea, the United States and many more, including the Louvre in Paris, France. He has been a member of multiple international juries and he is also the Co-Founder of Poster Poster and the Founder of Designers Speak. Scott has also giving conferences and workshops in countries such as China, United States, Argentina, Ecuador, Indonesia, Venezuela, Mexico, Northern Ireland and Russia. Currently he is a Professor of Graphic Design at the Universidad UTE and President and Founder of the Ecuador Poster Bienal.
Christopher Han
Member Information Christopher Han Graphic Designer He majored in Aesthetics at Hongik University’s Graduate School of Humanities. Graphic designer, Art/Illustrator,Visual Artist based in Seoul,Korea. He served as the Jury for the 2020 Turkish Bolu International Poster Design Award and (Jury)Selection Committee-International Poster Competition”Coronavirus attack against human being” in Iran.His artworks were selected the finalist_14BICM and 15BICM Bienal International del cartel en Mexico. In addition, about 15works were selected and awarded at the International competitions. From 2017 to now, he have participated in more 80 world poster Invitations. His posters have been exhibited in : Poland, Denmark, Spain,France,Turkey, Iran, Ukraine,the United States, Mexico, Ecuador,Chile, China, Macau, Indonesia and other places
Martin Mendelsberg
Member Information Martin Mendelsberg Graphic Designer, Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver Martin Mendelsberg is a designer, typographer and design educator. He has exhibited internationally in Australia, New Zealand, China, Iran, South Korea, Germany, France, Poland, Slovakia, Russia, Belarus, Cyprus, Turkey, Mexico and the United States. The artist’s work is represented in permanent collections at The Museum of New Zealand, Auckland, NZ, Victoria University School of Architecture, Wellington NZ, GovettBrewster Art Gallery, Palmerston North, NZ, Yale University: Haas Arts Special Collections, The Florida Holocaust Museum, The Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI, The Mizel Museum, Denver, CO, Holocaust Observance Committee at The University of Northern Colorado and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. Masterfont Ltd in Tel Aviv, Israel, distributes his Hebrew typeface designs. Mr. Mendelsberg is an Affiliate Professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Andrew Mayberry
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Kye Soo Myung
Member Information Kye soo Myung Graphic Designer/Emeritus Professor of Konkuk University 1953 Born in Seoul, South Korea. He specializes in Korean typography design, identity design and non-commercial images. He finished his diploma graduated with honors in 1978 under professor Myung-kwang Kwon. In the same year he has begun his didactic work.In 1981-1984 he taught students at Seoul institute of Arts as a full time lecturer. He moved to Konkuk University from 1985-2019, where he taught many students as a designer and a professor, 2019 retired and is currently an emeritus professor. In 1991 and 2003 he got his sabbatical year at Syracuse University and Boston University as visiting scholars. Since 1978 he has been teaching graphic design and giving lectures on design concept. 1994-1996 and 2009-2011 he has served as the dean at the College of Art & Design, Konkuk University. And He has published many papers, including A study on Graphic Design in the cognition and significance of culture and society (The Korea Society of Illustration Research).His professional interests include not only typography but also contemporary painting, graphics and art medias.In 2017 he received Gold Minister Prize of the Korea Design Exhibition Awards, 2004 he received the President Prize of Education-Konkuk University. And 1994 he received the Grand Prize of Korean Font Competition. The font name is Korean Bright-font. After 2009, He continuously updated Bright-font and published as an open source font and donated profits to an organization that produces braille for the blind.He is invited professional designer of the Korea Design Exhibition Awards. And since 2002 he was in the jury member of Korea Design Exhibition Awards several times. 2013-2015 he was President of Visual Information Design Association of Korea(VIDAK). At that time, he became the chair of Steering Committee and Jury panel of the 2013 International Poster Exhibition Korea.He is a member of China International Design Educator Association (CIDEA).He is Jury panel of the Calanca International Design Biennale 2020 Switzerland and the 17th International Biennial of Theatre Poster in Rzeszów, 2020
Xu Wei
Member Information Xu Wie Graphic Designer Lecturer of Wuxi Taihu University, national committee member of China packaging federation design committee, member of suzhou graphic designers association, outstanding youth of jiangsu zijin cultural creative talents.She is also an assistant manager at Worldwide Graphic Designers. She has worked for many years as a graphic designer, educator, art curator and jury.Her professional practices include visual identity design, packaging design, poster design, logo and book binding design.Her works have been included in the paper the paper “the ritual” east pattern design invitational exhibition and Chinese creative design yearbook and was named the gold medal, silver medal, and access to China’s creative packaging design contest gold prize, bronze, bronze star art design contest in jiangsu, international commercial art design competition award, outstanding industrial design academy award and other awards in jiangsu province, her works successively in Hungary, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Mexico, Czech Republic, Poland and other international design exhibition.