Trnava Poster Triennial 2009

 

International competition of posters
and websites design

21 October 2009 – December 18th 2009

Organizing Committee Chairman:

Pavel Choma, Slovakia

Curators:

Zdeno Kolesár, category A1, A2
Katarína Gatialová, category B

Trnava Poster Triennial (TPT) 2009 was a public, non-anonymous contest of world poster held since 1991 under the auspices of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations Icograda. The main organizers were the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava and the Trnava Self-governing Region. Its co-organizers are the Slovak Design Center in Bratislava, the City of Trnava, the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the team of curators.

There were three competitive categories in TPT 2009:

A1 Poster – professional authors – individuals and teams
A2 Poster – students of fine arts and design academies
B Design of websites

Art works had been judged by an international jury consisting of experts on graphic design.

Majid Abbasi (1965), Iran
Emil Drličiak (1973), Slovakia
Guy Schockaert (1949), Belgium
Robert V. Novák (1962), Czech Republic

Organizers of the 7th year of the TPT utilized the event´s seventeen years reputation endorsing traditional values respected by international graphic design community and at the same time they bring innovations reflecting the continuously changing character of graphic design. The new category, B Design of websites, employed the principles of spreading information both in public and virtual space. It adopts and expands the attributes and potentials of poster. Confrontation of the both media enlightened the current characteristics of each of them, as well as their mutual relation.

The main part of the international Trnava Poster Triennial 2009 was composed of the exhibitions in Kopplova vila of the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, in Synagogue – the Center of Contemporary Art of the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava exhibiting the categories – A1 Poster – professional authors – individuals and teams, B Design of websites and A2 Poster – students of fine arts and design academies.
West Slovakian Museum at Trnava shall present the exhibition of category A2 Poster – students of fine arts and design academies.

TPT 2009 and its main exhibitions were opened on 21 October at 6 p.m. in the Synagogue – Center of Contemporary Art of the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Halenárska 2.
The exhibition was open till 20 December 2009.
The exhibition of category A2 Poster – students of fine arts and design academies held in the West Slovakian Museum was opened till 14 January 2010.

As a part of TPT 2009 there were a number of collateral events and activities, smaller exhibitions, lectures and workshops held at the same time also in other Slovak towns.

TPT 2009 Winners

kategória A1 – Plagát  profesionálni autori, jednotlivci a kolektívy

Cena Andyho Warhola – Grand prix pre celkového víťaza TPT
Francois Caspar — Francúzsko

1.Cena v kategórii A1 — Plagát — profesionálni autori — jednotlivci a kolektívy
Iman Raad — Irán

Cena predsedu Trnavského samosprávneho kraja pre kategóriu [...]

TPT 2009 Statistics

A1 Category

125 designers from 30 countries

A2 Category

69 students from 7 countries

B Category

Number of exhibited posters
427

Number of exhibited websites
40

TPT 2009 Video

Video of the visual concept of Trnava Poster Triennial 2009, for which its author Ondrej Gavalda won the National Prize for Design of the Slovak Republic.

TPT 2009 text: Zdeno Kolesár

Zdeno Kolesár
Curator of the Trnava Poster Triennial 2009 (A1, A2 Categories)

Source: Catalogue TPT 2009

 

TPT 2009

In 1991, when the Trnava Poster Triennial was engendered in Trnava, the world of graphic design was experiencing a digital revolution. Designers replaced their pencils, brushes, scissors, and glue with [...]

TPT 2009 text: Pavel Choma

Pavel Choma
TPT 2009 Organizing Committee Chairman

Source: Catalogue TPT 2009

 

The Poster Is Not Only a Format; the Poster Is an Idea

I have expressed my attitude to poster creation several times in different ways. Mostly by its very creation and by publishing.

Today, I have to use other [...]

TPT 2009 text: Tibor Mikuš

Ing. Tibor Mikuš

Chairman of the Trnava Self-governing Region

Source: Catalogue TPT 2009

 

The Trnava Poster Triennial

is undoubtedly one of the most significant specialized international graphic events. It surveys current trends in the world visual culture and supports creative artists, the quality of their creation, and the [...]

TPT 2009 Organizing Committee

Honorary chairman of the TPT

Jozef Dóka jr.
Graphic designer, Trnava

TPT 2009 Organizing Committee Chairman

Pavel Choma
Graphic designer, Žilina

Members

Marcel Benčík
Graphic designer, Bratislava

Vladimír Beskid
Director of the Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava

Juraj Blaško
Graphic [...]

TPT 2009 Regulations

REGULATIONS ON THE TRNAVA POSTER TRIENNIAL 2009
21st October – 18th December 2009

Trnava Poster Triennial (TPT) 2009

is a public non-anonymous international competitive exhibition of posters produced from March 2006 until 15th May 2009 and design of websites.

Competition Categories

A1 Poster professional authors – individuals and teams
[...]

TPT 2009 Accompanying Events

September 24th – November 15th 2009

Museum of Art Žilina, M. R. Štefánika 2, Žilina
Black Box – presentation of designs from selected Slovak graphic designers, which have never been realized.

October 21th 2009 – January 21th 2010

First Street Gallery of Poster, show-widows of ČSOB Bank, Zámočnícka a Hlavná [...]

TPT 2009 International Jury

Majid Abbasi, Iran
Emil Drličiak, Slovakia
Guy Schockaert, Belgium
Robert V. Novák, Czech Republik

Majid Abbasi graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran in 1989 in visual communication. It was in this same year that Abbasi set up his prestigious studio, Did Graphics Inc., with partner Firouz Shafei. Also a [...]

TPT 2009 text: Katarína Gatialová

Katarína Gatialová
Curator of the Trnava Poster Triennial 2009 B category.

Source: catalogue TPT 2009

An ongoing critical discussion on gallery presenting of the street medium – a poster has not faded out yet, and we are already witnessing another “outraging” dash. We are now collecting and presenting websites, those [...]