Poster

The 1st Printed Athens Art Weekend is shaping up to be a real treat for graphic art lovers as it prepares to take over the Kypseli Municipal Market (42 Fokionos Negri). More than 50 talented local artists, including graphic designers, illustrators and screen printers, will come together under one roof to showcase their creativity.

Left: Graphic designed by Trio design studio marking the tenth anniversary of the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Right: Poster designed by Asim Djelilovic depicting a sniper saying "Perfect", inspired by the shooting of two female peace demonstrators in Sarajevo in 1992.

Greek artist Virginia Axioti's work is seen by thousands of people every week, but none of it is digital. As the designer of hand-painted billboards that hang over the entrance to Athens' Athinaion cinema advertising the newest film, she can count on a regular audience without having to embrace the internet.

A crew sticking posters advertising a Panhellenic Union of Merchant Seamen (PENEN) event on walls in Piraeus were physically attacked by between 10 and 12 people on motorcycles early Wednesday morning. The posters were promoting an upcoming event organized by PENEN to mark the 1917 October Revolution in Russia.

The Benaki Museum's Pireos Street annex is showing 100 posters designed by 100 renowned graphic artists in 2001 to mark the centennial of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's death. The posters were initially displayed in "Le Nouveau Salon des Cent," an exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris, and have since traveled to many cities around Europe, Asia and America.

A former GDR intelligence agent, Horst Kopp, wrote a book named "Disinformant" (Der Desinformant) revealing how fake news was produced during the postwar period in Germany.

In an interview with Sputnik Germany, Kopp reveals the origin of propaganda and how it is used to achieve certain goals.

Instead of making a poster depicting the humiliation of the soldier, you should make a poster of our hero soldier Ömer Halisdemir, who overthrew a Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) general with one bullet.    

Instead of making a poster of a surrendered Turkish soldier, you should make a poster of how you were tricked and deceived by FETÖ. 

The security company Intersec from Novi Sad is mounting a 24-hour guard over a prominent poster of Serbian Progressive Party leader and presidential candidate Aleksandar Vucic in the northern city of Novi Sad until polling day on April 2.

Kar??yaka Municipality's March 8 posters, which cap sentences by AKP members with the slogan "none of your business," coincide with Davuto?lu's first post-election visit to ?zmirThe sentence needs to be delivered with one hand firmly on your belly, with the elbow provocatively jutted out, as if it could be used to deliver a blow to the chest of your opponent.

Vahap Av?ar?s one-person exhibition titled ?Lost Shadows? has recently opened in the Forum at SALT Beyo?lu. 

The exhibition consists of 50 photographs selected by Av?ar from thousands of images found in the AND Publishing Company archive.