Sad but true: unfortunately we are forced to call off the workshop that was scheduled for the end of April in Tbilisi, Georgia. We are very sorry for this inconvenience and beg pardon to all those who were planning to attend that workshop.
But there are also some great news! The AAS College in Thessaloniki, Greece, will host a new workshop, starting June 18. The instructor will be Antoine Abi Aad of Lebanon. If you live in Greece and you’re a student, a designer or a NGO professional and you would like to participate, send an email at dmd (at) posterfortomorrow.org. You will receive a text based form to fill in and send us back.
 

March 8th is Woman’s Day across the globe. We really couldn’t think of a better moment to open the call for entries for our 2012 edition, dedicated to the hot issue of Gender Equality. It’s finally time to get started with the creative work!

The condition of women has undergone undeniable improvements during the last century. But these improvements haven’t happened everywhere and even where they have been the strongest, well, they are far from being strong enough.

Gender inequality still lingers unchallenged: it’s one of those things that are hard to see precisely because they are right in front of our eyes.
That’s why we ask all of you to see beyond the status quo and imagine a different future. We need gender equality now, because more opportunities for women are more opportunities for us all.

The jury members of this current edition are:
Majid Abbasi (Iran), Cristina Chiappini (Italy), Gitte Just (Denmark), Maria Kurpik (Poland), Alain Le Quernec (France), Malte Martin (France), Leila Musfy Awad (Lebanon), Carolina Rojas (Colombia), Serge Serov (Russia), Paula Troxler (Switzerland), Rene Wanner (Switzerland) and Guy Schockaert (Belgium) as moderator.

Competition Calendar:
Call for entries open: 8 March 2012
Call for entries close: 10 July 2012
Online jury vote: 20 July - 10 September 2012
Live jury session, Paris: 5 October 2012
Worldwide exhibitions opening: 10 December 2012

Available downloads:
Download the complete call for entries right here and right now.
The brief is also available in a number of languages on the right hand of this page.
If you'd like to read the small prints, please download our contest regulations.

How to upload your poster:
Register to our website and upload your finished designs by logging into your account.
You’ll find the submission form at the botton of your personal account page.
Submissions must be JPG files, 2953x4134 pixels in size, 150DPI in resolution and in RGB colour space.
Files must be smaller than 10mb.

Please note:
To upload your design you’ll need to be registered on our website. You can do that by clicking on the “sign up” button at the top of our page.
Send in your artwork early to avoid last minute problems. Contest deadline is on 10 July 2012.
Do not try to send images in a different size, resolution or file format: the system will not accept your files.
Files larger than 10mb won't be accepted and heavier files in the 8-10mb range will often block our system, if you can't upload your file please try to reduce the export quality settings.

Draw Me Democracy is a series of poster design workshops organized by 4 tomorrow, the same association that founded and organized poster for tomorrow since 2009. This new project is one of the few global projects that UNDEF, the United Nation Democracy Fund, has ever financed.

The aim of DMD is to help young artists, designers and communication professionals in taking an active role in the democratic process and human rights advocacy initiatives in their own country. It aims to do so by helping them to find their inner creative voice and strengthening their knowledge in the fields of design, social communication and advocacy advertising.

In short, the workshops will empower today’s communicators to make them part of their country's future.

Some may call this plan too ambitious. We call it brave. We call it necessary.

Here are some details: next April and May, Draw Me Democracy will set-up and roll-out 12 workshops, all free of charge and held by outstanding professionals, in 12 cities across several countries in Africa and Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Would you like to take part in one of the workshops or are you just eager to know more? Check out the Draw me Democracy website and register online to one of the workshops.

We are thrilled to disclose the brief for the new edition of poster for tomorrow: “Gender Equality Now!”

The condition of women has undergone undeniable improvements during the last century. But these improvements haven’t happened everywhere and even where they have been the strongest, well, they are far from being strong enough.
Gender inequality still lingers unchallenged: it’s one of those things that are hard to see precisely because they are right in front of our eyes.
That’s why we ask all of you to see beyond the status quo and imagine a different future.

As for the past, at closing of the call for entries, poster for tomorrow will entrust your artworks to a jury of renowned designers. The best 100 posters will be displayed in multiple locations worldwide opening 10 December, “A Day for Tomorrow”.

But there will soon be plenty of time to deal with the details and also with the novelties of this 2012 edition. Now is the time for the really important stuff.

We need gender equality now, because more opportunities for women are more opportunities for us all.


Competition Calendar:
Call for entries open: 8 March 2012
Call for entries close: 10 July 2012
Online jury vote: 20 July - 10 September 2012
Live jury session, Paris: 5 October 2012
Worldwide exhibitions opening: 10 December 2012


Download the brief (PDF in English)

Brief also available in:
Español
Français

Good luck to everyone!

So here we are again back to our daily routine.
But, when it comes to Poster for tomorrow, the only routine is the constant effort to conceive and organize new inspiring projects.

The 2011 edition of Poster for tomorrow came to a glorious ending with the rolling of the worldwide exhibition tour in December and (we're sure you have already guessed where we are heading here) the new 2012 brief is already on its way.

The topic together with all the other relevant details will be revealed to the world next monday, January 16th. We're extremely excited by the chosen topic, its social and cultural implications and the artistic possibilities it will surely open up. By now we can only anticipate that… ok, just kidding.

You will have to wait until next monday! 

We're not used to boast our achievements, and indeed this note doesn't intend to do so, but please let us share with all of you our joy and happiness in seeing the closing of a very special day: our first day for tomorrow.

Despite the difficulties and the inevitable shortcomings which we became familiar with as we were running this project, for us it was a success. That's because many of the 30 exhibitions we managed to get organised around the world, are in countries which are seldom part of the graphic design discourse. For this reason, we hope to have started a dialogue that will continue in the future to include new players in an industry that is in dire need to redefine its scope and ambitions.

Moreover, we were able to shed some light on a topic such as the Right to Education. There's a strong need for us to be aware of this problem and its consequences, which limits people's potential in the South as well as in the North of the world.

Our wish is that the posters that we collected in the exhibitions and the book will fuel debate - hopefully not only within the graphic design circle, but in civil society as a whole.
In the next few days we'll try to share with you what we achieved today by pictures and more so please keep tuned!