This is the third time that the Hungarian Poster Association announces a call for works for their large-scale exhibition, PosterFest, which this year bears the name RESTART expressing their belief in the hope of a new beginning in postpandemic times.

The Student Competition allows organizers to draw special attention to introducing a new generation of artists. The organizers look forward to receiving poster designs that speak in a unique way about a fresh start after the pandemic is over. How will the world restart? What traces of the epidemic will remain with us in our future lives? Or do we have to live forever in the shadow of another emerging virus / mutation? Do we need to settle for long-term coexistence with the virus? Has it changed us and if so, what is the current situation like? If there is a chance for a fresh start, how would you go about it? The aim of the competition is to present the students’ individual opinions, critical attitudes, innermost feelings and thoughts with the specific tools of poster graphic design through the topic of Restart.

Entries will be judged by an international jury. The list of the members of the jury will be published on the official website of the event in the summer of 2021: www.posterfest.hu

Students enrolled at every Hungarian higher education institution providing
art courses as well as at these higher education institutions:

• ASP Krakow Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts (Krakow)
• ASP Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (Warsaw)
• PJAIT Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Warsaw)
• UJEP Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (Ústi nad Labem)
• TBU Tomas Bata University (Zlín)
• BUT Brno University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of Industrial Design (Brno)
• TUKE Technical University of Košice Faculty of Arts (Košice)
• METU Budapest Metropolitan University Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries (Budapest)
  Budapesti Metropolitan Egyetem
• MKE Hungarian University of Fine Arts Graphics Department (Budapest)
• MOME Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Graphic Design Department (Budapest)
• PTE University of Pécs Faculty of Music and Visual Arts (Pécs)
• SOE University of Sopron Simonyi Karoly
  Faculty of Engineering Wood Sciences and Applied Arts (Sopron)
• Visart Academy of Art and Design (Budapest)
• Széchenyi István University of Győr, Faculty of Art (Győr)
• Eszterházy Károly University Visual Arts Institute (Eger)
• KREA Contemporary Art Scool (Budapest)
• University of Szeged Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education | Department of Art and Art History (Szeged)

Size: 70×100 cm, CMYK, 150 DPI, maximum 60 MB (with 5 mm bleed and crop marks)
Acceptable file formats: composite pdf or jpg

Upload the entries meeting the technical requirements here:

Applicants may submit a maximum of 2 entries.

Deadline for uploading entries: Midnight, July 29, 2021

• József Árendás – Excellent Artist, Munkácsy Award-winning graphic designer, regular member of Hungarian Academy of Fine arts, member of the Hungarian Poster Association
• Krzysztof Ducki – Ferenczy Award-winning graphic designer, president of the Hungarian Poster Association
• Krisztián Gál – graphic designer, member of the Hungarian Poster Association, Co-founder of OPLA Projekt
• Anikó Katona – art historian, Hungarian National Gallery, member of the Hungarian Poster Association
• Anna Korolovszky – graphic designer, member of Hungarian Poster Association, Co-founder of OPLA Projekt
• István Orosz – member of AGI, Kossuth Award-winning graphic designer, member of the Hungarian Poster Association
• Sándor Pinczehelyi – Merited Artist, Excellent Artist, Noémi Ferenczy Awardwinning graphic designer, Member of Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, member of the Hungarian Poster Association
• Tamás Tóth – graphic designer, vice president of the Hungarian Poster Association

By submitting his or her material, the applicant guarantees that the submitted images are, without exception, his or her own intellectual property. By submitting these works, the applicant unconditionally consents to the presentation, publication, and reproduction of his or her submitted works in printed form at the Hungarian Poster Association and at the PosterFest Budapest exhibition, as well as on the event’s websites, online interfaces and at events organized to promote the event.