Eastern Mediterranean University, Communication Faculty, Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students managed to appear within the top 100 among 6,993 poster designs in Paris-based, non-profit organisation 4tomorrow’s “Poster for Tomorrow” project.
With the aim of promoting active citizenship through the medium of design, 4tomorrow works towards encouraging people, both those in and outside the design community, to make posters to stimulate debate in the local and international communities on issues that affect us all. The organisation has received over 15,000 posters from 133 countries and hosted more than 400 exhibitions in 5 continents so far.
In line with this year’s theme “Freedom of Movement”, EMU Communication Faculty, Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Postgraduate students Farzin Faroutan and Undergraduate student Abanu Soliman’s entry made it to the top 100 designs amongst 6,993 entries. Postgraduate students Negar Chahian, Amer Taher and Ebal A. S. Alamari’s designs made it into the top 400.
“Now It’s Time to Raise Awareness Regarding Human Rights”
Poster designs of the aforesaid students of EMU appeared at exhibitions in France, the USA, Brazil, Russia, Iran, Morocco and Turkey on 7 December 2017. Another national poster design exhibition will be launched at EMU on 14 March 2018. During the exhibition, one of the directors of “Poster for Tomorrow” project Herve Matine will be delivering a seminar.
Chair of the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Senih Çavuşoğlu, who provided assistance during the poster design stage of the said students, stated that the freedom of movement is a human right and awareness need to be raised regarding the difficulties encountered by those who have to relocate due to wars. In this respect, poster designs on this issue carry special importance. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çavuşoğlu added that people from different nations bring color and life to the world and that closing borders to travelers and building walls to keep people outside will ensure a dark future for humanity.