WEB POSTER EXHIBITION - The 5. Poster Festival in Cracow, Poland

Hommage a Krzysztof Dydo

Krzyzstof Dydo sent me the catalogue of the latest Festiwal Plakatu w Krakowie which has now become the most important poster event in Poland, apart from the International Poster Biennial in Warsaw. A festival of this kind is always the result of the work of a large number of people but there is no doubt that Krzyzstof Dydo is one of the main driving forces behind it, and has carefully built it up since 1999.

Dydo has been collecting posters since he was a boy, runs a poster gallery in the center of old Cracow since 1985, has written numerous books and probably organized more poster exhibitions internationally than anybody else. His daughter Agnieszka, an art history student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, is writing a thesis on the work of her father, and has come up with about 350 exhibitions, from Beijing to Mexico, Tehran to London, the latest news comes from Jerusalem.

Dydo also has an eye and a heart for new talent, and helps young and unknown artists by promoting them and giving them commissions to design posters for his gallery or his exhibitions, below are some recent examples. Polish graphic designers that are now well known like Roman Kalarus, Mieczyslaw Gorowski, Leszek Zebrowski or Wieslaw Grzegorczyk have all enjoyed Dydo's early support.

Dzienkuje barzo, Krzysztof !

Some recent posters commissioned by Krzysztof Dydo for his collection and gallery


Bartosz Mysza


Michal Ksiazek


Jakub Stepien


Miroslaw Adamczyk


More posters from the exhibition
( just my personal preference, for the the winners see the News )


David Korzekwa


Michal Batory
Theater poster

Katarzyna Guzieicz
Music poster

Joanna Gorska and Jerzy Skakun
Ballet poster


Studio Citylight
Theater poster

Tomasz Kuzniar


Leszek Zebrowski
for a yearly Blues festival

Leszek Zebrowski
Theater poster


Bozena Jankowska
650. anniversary of the city of Olsztyn

Wieslaw Grzegorczyk


Wieslaw Grzegorczyk


Mieczyslaw Gorowski
Theater poster


Mieczyslaw Wasilewski


Mieczyslaw Wasilewski


Mieczyslaw Wasilewski


Marcin Wladyka
Exhibition poster


Lech Majewski
Jewish culture festival

Lech Majewski
Personal exhibition

Lech Majewski


Lech Majewski
Theater poster


Jose Luis Hernandez


Katarzyna Orszulik
Auschwitz

Justyna Rybak


Patrycia Orzechowska


Jakub Stepien


Jakub Stepien


Jakub Stepien


Jakub Stepien
Personal exhibition


Agnieszka Winciorek
Holocaust

Agnieszka Winciorek
1939 - 1945

Agnieszka Winciorek


Anna Boruch-Kunka


Wieslaw Walkuski
Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

Leszek Wisniewski
75 Jahre Design Austria

Mieczyslaw Gorowski
Movie poster

Marta Kolodziejska
The tower of Babel


Urszula Chylaszek
Alcohol kills

Tomasz Bierkowski


Urszula Iwona Borkowska
60. anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising


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