Silently, when this hit our Macs, everybody started to chuckle. It seems design has the same challenges across the big seas.

BOTH was invited to jury in the Vibre poster show in Teheran (the Iranian poster show not controlled by the government).

Winners of Vibre poster competition Tehran are as follows:

1. 2xGoldstein (Germany)
2. Niklaus Troxler (Switzerland)
3. Erich Brechbuhl (Switzerland)
4. Daniel Peter (Switzerland)
5. Lance Rutter (USA)
6. Marcin Urbanczyk (Poland)
7. Alireza Nosrati (Iran)
8. Taber Calderon (Domenican Republic)

The international jury was as follows: Timo Berry (Finland/BOTH) , Götz Gramlich (Germany) , Ronald Cala (USA) , Marina Cordova Alvestegui (Bolivia) , Paulina Gancaryzk (Poland) , and Milad Shokouhi (Iran).

We congratulate the winners!

2xGoldstein

Niklaus Troxler

Daniel Peter

Lance Rutter

Erich Brechbuehl

Marin Urbanczyk

Alireza Nosrati

Taber Calderon

BOTH has been asked to showcase the Freedom of Expression and Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 -posters in the coming “Golden Bee” International Biennale of Graphic Design, held in Moscow in 2010 .

As part of the event, Golden Bee is organising “a super show  called All Gold of the
World” – an exhibition of posters awarded by Grand Prixs, Golden
Awards and First Prizes in key international contests between 2000 and
2010.

The “GoldenBeeLoved” Super Cup and Special Award winners will also be
presented during this show.

The named BOTH posters have won the Lahti poster bieninal Grand Prix, and gold medals from the Mons triennial of political posters, and the Bolivia and Mexico biennials.

This exhibition we are especially happy to be in!

We’ve been invited to contribute to the TPDA (Taiwan Poster Design Association) 2010 Annual Theme Exhibition, which will be held in March 2010.

The venue is at Teh-Chun, NUNT Gallery, Department of Fine Arts, no.1, Shi-Da road, Taipei, Taiwan 106.

TPDA has totally hosted over 23 theme exhibitions until 2009. Each theme of those exhibitions surrounded the cultural issues or the social phenomena that people cared about at the moment. The theme of this year is ” Harmonious human/ nature relationship “.

BOTH will take part with our Ydinvapaa Meri-Lappi poster. We are looking forward to seeing the whole of the exhibition.

Here’s the invitation to the exhibition:

BOTH partner and designer Teemu Ollikainen has been invited to chair the Publications selection in Vuoden Huiput (Best of the year) annual competition organized by Grafia.Vuoden Huiput is the biggest national design competition in Finland.

Ollikainen thanks for the honour and is exited to see what our colleagues have to show.