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EUROPE 2020 - PAN EUROPEAN POSTER DESIGN COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION ON THE OUTLOOK OF THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

08.05.2002 News

Zagreb (Croatia) - The Pan European competition in poster design - Europe 2020 is an effort to bring together prominent European designers in order to help shape the future of the European continent. The competition, endorsed by Icograda, began at the end of February and was concluded on 29 April. More than 80 designers from 23 European countries participated in the competition, making the collection of more than 140 posters showing different ideas about the future of Europe which are currently on exhibit in Zagreb, Croatia, until 2 June 2002. The exhibition opened on May 8th, in the presence of the Minister of European Integrations and the international jury.

Europe 2020 is a project organised by the Croatian Designer's Society and the Ministry for European Integration of the Republic of Croatia in co-operation with the Croatian Ministry of Culture and endorsed by Icograda with the aim of encouraging communication on the future of Europe.

An eminent international panel whose members are Professor Stane Bernik (Slovenia), Linda van Deursen (the Netherlands), Carme Julia (Spain), Helmut Langer (Germany) and Zlatko Wurzberg (Croatia) had a hard task selecting the best works and came to a result by the majority voting decision 3 against 2.

Exhibition will be open for public from 9 May till 2 June 2002 in The Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, Medvedgradska 2, Croatia.

For more information, contact:

C: Zeljko Borcic, president, Croatian Designer's Society
T: +385 1 336 4187
F: + 385 1 336 4192
E: zeljko.borcic@cro-design.org
W: www.cro-design.org