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[EN] "I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art". With these few words Jeffrey Deitch, former Director of the Museum of contemporary art of Los Angeles, managed to illustrate with disarming simplicity the reasons why an art exhibition usually provokes interest not only to art lovers but also to ordinary observers or even to random spectators who may just stop for a while in front of a work of art out of curiosity and eventually end up devoting their whole afternoon inside a gallery or an exhibition space. With this in mind, the 3rd Visual Communication Designers meeting of Cyprus , which will be held from the 10th to the 12th of March 2017 , has scheduled the presentation of three very important exhibitions. " Nicosia, the city of Utopia ", is the title of the first exhibition and will include the short-listed works from the first international poster competiti...

[ΕΝ] "Nicosia, the city of Utopia" International poster competition by Graphic Stories Cyprus Create and view your own printed postal card! Participate in the poster competition! Graphic Stories Cyprus invites higher education students and professionals visual communication designers to create and view printed their own card postal and also to take part in the international poster competition entitled "Nicosia, the city of Utopia". The competition is part of the 3rd Visual Communication Designers Meeting in Cyprus that will take place the weekend between 10-12 of March 2017. The winners will receive €2000 total worth of prizes. The creative idea, conserning the design of the poster, is based on the unique architectural identity of the fortification walls of Nicosia. The castle that surrounds the city was built by the Venetians, in the form it has today, based on Julio Savorgnano's plans during the late Renaissance era. The circ...