“Ideas are born, grow & die generating new ideas” poster for Other Side

Poster contribution for the Other Side, an interactive poster project by Swiss and Balkan artists curated Le Cabinet SR:CH –

a Swiss-Serbian association founded in 2012 by 5 graphic designers. Its aim is to promote intercultural exchanges between Switzerland and Balkans countries in the field of graphic design and visual arts.

This is the second edition of Other Side. Artists were invited to develop a two sides poster project. The aim is to encourage the artists to come to grips with a subject that confronts them either directly or indirectly, and to go beyond preconceived ideas. By inviting them to share an individual interpretation, the posters introduce us to different cultures with different personal concepts.

89 participants from Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia took part in this project, which resulted in an exhibition in spring 2017 at QG, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and an accompanying catalogue.

The poster shows a quote by Igino Marini: “Ideas are born, grow & die generating new ideas” in English and Serbian with a very early version of Burns. The quote becomes bilingual with appropriate lightning on the page or poster, hence connecting both languages together. A rough sketch of Cyrillic letters was drawn for the occasion.

The poster and typeface were designed by Nolan Paparelli. The quote was translated by Aleksandra Andrić. The catalogue was designed by Théophile Glauser (Atelier U-Zehn) and Alex Bauer (Fabriquâ).