The Prelude Exhibition of The First Shanghai Graphic Design Biennale – TopoPoster: International Poster Design Exhibition, after six months (June – December, 2025) of planning and preparation, was successfully held from December 13 to December 22, 2025. As one of the larger-scale exhibitions in recent years featuring an international selection of works in China, it showcased over 300 representative poster designs from 153 influential contemporary designers and studios active in the forefront of the field across 28 countries.

Look at me

I designed the poster for the Newcomer Competition of the Weltformat Festival on the theme 'Look at me. The image is a digital reworking of a cross-stitch pattern I found at the Brokenhaus. I'm fascinated by the tension between the digital and the analog, as well as the contrast between the modern and the traditional.

Eliot Elsaesser

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