Open Call for Antifascist Posters Exhibition in Paris, 19 January 2027

Boris Melnichenko
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19 January is a day of remembrance for the anti-fascists Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, who were murdered in Moscow in 2009. To raise the visibility of anti-fascist themes, we are collecting graphic works for an exhibition in Paris in 2027.

Send us your posters to: posters19jan@proton.me

Email subject: 19.01

Submission Guidelines
1. Your work may commemorate victims of far-right violence or explore the meaning of antifascism.
2. Any medium is welcome: a poster, a typographic composition, a collage, or any other graphic format.
Ideally, submit a PDF that can be printed at A3 size.
3. Please include a short written commentary (up to 300 words) in your message.

Deadline: December 18, 2026

The organisers will select posters and arrange an exhibition in Paris on 19 January 2027.

If you want to know more about Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, you can watch the documentary film “Love Me, Please": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77u7isDK3Gg

I highly recommend watching it, although it might be emotionally challenging.
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  • Boris Melnichenko
    Boris Melnichenko Posts: 7
    edited November 10
    You can also share it in your social media

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  • Miles Newlyn
    Miles Newlyn Posts: 317
    This forum is about type design.
  • Boris Melnichenko
    Boris Melnichenko Posts: 7
    edited November 11
    @Miles Newlyn Thank you so much for your comment and for your interest in this topic!

    Before posting, I read the forum rules and didn’t find anything that would prohibit sharing this open call.

    We welcome any kind of graphics. You can make a specimen, or even a whole font, if you like (that would honestly be a dream). A single glyph, or just a diacritic, is enough too.

    You could also invent a new character and try to get it encoded in Unicode. Or send us code, and we’ll print that too.

    In this thread, we can also discuss type design itself, if you’d like. I’m interested in the historical, social, ethical and political aspects of all design, including type design. If you know any related subject from type design history — I’m into it. 

    In my view, such discussions are both lacking and needed. I also know from experience that the subject of “politics” is often banned on forums, because design, and type design in particular, is considered an “apolitical” field. I was once banned from design chat for discussing the graphics of the Mamdani campaign.

    For me, anything that organizes our common life is political, so type design is political too. E.g. the issue of “digitally disadvantaged languages” is perhaps the most evident example. 

    And a last small note: the economic aspects of type design, if we consider its root oikos, shared with oikoumene, the inhabited world, isn’t so far from politics.

    But this post is simply an open call for a posters exhibition in Paris. 

  • Yves Michel
    Yves Michel Posts: 252
    Miles Newlyn said:
    This forum is about type design.
    Is this a human reaction or your AI assistant ? (Still an assistant until it/he/she takes the power)
  • michele casanova
    michele casanova Posts: 102
    I’m not entirely sure if this is strictly on topic, but I’d like to share a small contribution regarding anti-fascism and typography.
    Since 2024 marked the centenary of the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti (a member of Italian parliament killed by fascists), I conducted some research in 2023 into various anti-fascist publications from Italy dating back 100 years. I noticed that a particular typeface appeared quite frequently in these materials (though certainly not exclusively), perhaps because it was somewhat outdated and inexpensive. At the time, it was known by various names (see Viktoria on Fontsinuse).
    I also made an attempt to revive that font. As it was merely an experiment (with several flaws, particularly regarding spacing and kerning), I released it under an open license, so that anyone could improve it.

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