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M. Misiak, R. Wawrzkiewicz, and L.-M. Harmsen, PLOP #02, ., vol. 2. Karlsruhe: Slanted Publishers, 2026. Available: https://www.slanted.de/product/plop-02-polish-design-revue/
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What is the Polish poster today: a monument to past glory, a decoration for apartments, a tool of struggle, or zombie design? The second issue of PLOP—Polish Design Revue tackles one of the greatest legends of Polish graphic design: the poster.
PLOP #02 does not offer yet another polite account of the masters, the canon, and the golden age of the Polish Poster School. Instead, it asks what the poster is today and where it is headed. Does it still function as a tool of communication, a form of artistic expression, a medium of protest, and a presence in public space? Or has it become a ritual repeated by the design community, almost like a para-religion?
Published by Slanted Publishers in collaboration with Three Dots Type Foundry and the Polish Graphic Design Foundation, the second issue of PLOP explores the poster as it navigates the space between the street and the gallery, protest and decoration, paper and screen, legend and real life.
The issue features a conversation with Ola Jasionowska about the poster as a civic practice, an essay by Katarzyna Matul on the poster as an export product, identity, and the legacy of communist-era Poland, a conversation with Karolina Pietrzyk about typography, collaboration, and controlled experiments, and Paweł Starzec’s photographic documentation of the visual aspects of protests. PLOP also gives a platform to international curators and organizers of poster events, who discuss AI, biennials, festivals, and the myths surrounding national design schools.
The issue also features illustrations by Klaudia Kozińska and the typeface Dioda, designed by Jan Estrada-Osmycki.
PLOP #02 is an issue about the poster and the post-poster. It asks difficult questions and offers no easy answers—but it still loves the poster.