Lahti International Poster Triennial 2025

Lahti International Poster Triennial 2025 now is over!

Lahti International Poster Triennial 2025: The Lahti International Poster Triennial 2025, organised by Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Grafia, Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland and The Finnish Friends of Posters Guild, this year celebrates its 50th anniversary and invites poster designers from around the world to participate.

➜ Short description

The Lahti International Poster Triennial 2025, organised by Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Grafia, Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland and The Finnish Friends of Posters Guild, this year celebrates its 50th anniversary!

Continuing a tradition that began in 1975, this graphic design competition and exhibition will now be held for the 22nd time in Lahti. To honour the triennial’s 50th jubilee, the theme of the special anniversary category will be ‘freedom of expression’. Although this inherent human right is protected in many countries, free speech still remains under threat in many parts of the world.

There are three categories:

➜ Cultural, social and ideological posters
➜ Environmental posters
➜ Freedom of expression

You may submit up to four (4) posters in digital format.

The competition committee will select the posters for the exhibition from among the submitted digital image files in January 2025. A list of posters selected for the exhibition will be published on this website early in February 2025. The winners will be announced and the prizes will be presented at the opening of the exhibition. All participants who submit posters are cordially invited to attend the opening on June 5, 2025.

➜ Submission requirements:

➜ RGB color space
➜ Long side of the image file 30 cm / 3508 px
➜ 300 dpi image quality
➜ File format JPG (Image quality: Maximum / Compression: None)

If you print your poster especially for the triennial, organiser kindly request that you select 70 x 100 cm format. The minimum size of approved posters is 42 x 60 cm and the maximum size is 120 x 180 cm. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify posters that are smaller or larger than the specified dimensions.

➜ Who may enter?

The competition is open to poster designers from around the world.

➜ Prize:

➜ Grand Prix €5000
➜ The Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prize €4000
➜ The Lauri Tarasti Environmental Poster Prize €4000
➜ The Lahti Prize €3000
➜ Certificates of honour

The jury may additionally award other prizes at its discretion.

➜ Entry fees:

For an entry fee of €20 per artist/collective, you may submit up to four (4) posters.

There is no registration fee for entering category C.