International Jury of TPT 2012

Five-member international jury will meet in early September 2012 in Trnava and selects the poster finalists, which will be exhibited at Triennial expositions and reproduced in the catalog. The jury has also right to award major prizes in each category. The evaluation criteria are stipulated by the jury.

The members of the international jury for 2012 are:

Chairman of the International Jury
Pekka LoiriFinland
– graphic designer

Stanislav Stankoci, Slovak Republic
– graphic designer, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

François Caspar, France
– significant affichist, winner of Grand Prix 2009 TPT

Zdzisław Schubert, Poland
– reputable poster theorist

Jan Rajlich jr.Czech republic
– graphic designer

Gaby De Abreu, South Africa
– Icograda’s Vice President (Icograda Prize)

István Orosz, Hungary
– graphic designer (V4 Prize)



Working Jury Meet

On week of 3rd September – 7th September the Jan koniarek Gallery held a working meeting of the members of the international jury. Mr Pekka Loiri was elected for the chairman of the international jury. In the course of this week jury selected finalists and awarded the best posters in A, B and C categories. [...]

István Orosz

Significant Hungarian graphic designer, animator, illustrator and poster artist, member of AGI. His work is characterized by visual paradoxes, optical illusions, ambiguous images and anamorphosis. His poster work is accepted and recognized in all world. He design mostly cultural and political poster. It is a co-founder of the Association of Hungarian Poster.
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Gaby De Abreu

Vice-President of Icograda, cofounder and executive creative director of the Switch Brand Agency, with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and London. He is also executive on the boards of the Brand Council of South Africa, the Loeries and the Creative Circle.

He is specialised on the packaging, typography and branding. He recieved [...]

Zdzisław Schubert

Zdzisław Schubert, critic and historian of art, curator of Poster and Design Gallery of the National Museum in Poznan and curator of many national and international exhibitions connected to poster and graphic design.

Jan Rajlich jr.

Jan Rajlich jr (born 1950) was professor of graphic design (1983 – 1989) at the Brno School of Art and Crafts and since 1988 has been teaching this subject at the VUT University. Jan Rajlich jr was President of the International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno (1993 – 1998). He was [...]

Stanislav Stankoci

Stanislav Stankoci (born 1959) worked as a teacher at the Department of Art of the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (1989 – 1992) and as head of Atelier of Graphic design II at the Department of Visual Communication of the Academy of Fine Arts and [...]

Pekka Loiri

Pekka Loiri (born 1946) has been artistic director of WSOY (one of Scandinavia’s largest publishing houses), a lecturer at the Institute of Design in Helsinki, and teacher and president of the MG School. His works have appeared in numerous publications devoted to the graphic arts and he has written many texts [...]

François Caspar

François Caspar, French poster and messages designer, based in Paris, has designed customized overall visual communication for government bodies, companies and theaters for over 20 years.

His posters have been awarded and shown in ≈ 115 international exhibitions, they belong to public and private collections in Paris, Hamburg or New York and [...]