Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Mohammed Ahmed Al Murr, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Library Foundation, opened the activities of the Seventh Emirates International Poster Festival.
Which is organized by the Culture and Science Symposium in Dubai in partnership with the International Poster Authority.
It will continue until November 15 at the symposium headquarters.
The opening was attended by Bilal Al-Badour, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the symposium, Ali Obaid Al-Hamli, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and a number of intellectuals and designers.
The festival coincides with the UAE’s celebration of the Year of Society, transforming visual art into a dialogue space that contributes to enhancing cultural and social interaction.
It also embodies the poster’s ability to remain an influential communication tool despite the dominance of digital media.
Muhammad Al-Murr stressed that the festival represents an inspiring platform for generations of designers to innovate new ways to express their societal issues.
He praised the role of the Culture and Science Symposium in establishing a culture of design at the local and global levels.
For his part, Bilal Al-Badour explained that the festival embodies the slogan “Year of Society”, and makes the poster a means of human rapprochement and building bridges between cultures.
He also stressed that the wide global participation reflects Dubai’s position as a center for visual creativity.
The current session witnessed distinguished participation by students, who constituted about 30% of the total participation, in addition to the participation of 50 designers from within the country, who presented works inspired by the values of society, the environment, and human relations.
The festival honored the international Italian designer Armando Milani, the guest of honor, who is famous for his humanitarian and environmental work.
Including the United Nations poster “War Peace”.
The seventh session will present about 500 works from 60 countries that embody diverse artistic visions of the concept of general society.
The festival affirms the UAE’s position as a global bridge for cultural dialogue and an open laboratory for visual creativity that employs design to serve humanity and society.
