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.

Linking Nodes

dition of 500 pieces, distributed for free at the university's annual exhibition at HFBK Hamburg. The posters were set as a stack next to two screens displaying the practical work and an iPad on a tripod that displayed the thesis website https://linking-nodes.net/.

My thesis project revolved around the topic of hypertext and knowledge transfer. Hypertext relies on links that embed its contents within a network of knowledge. A link connects two nodes through anchors. For the poster I asked myself: what can a node look like? What are a nodes visual qualities in an abstract sense? To me they are somehow stout junctions, mostly cohesive but porous fragments to an extend. They are a tomato, a black hole, an electron orbital, a cloud of stars, a part of a scull and a stone. Andy van Dam, a hypertext researcher, speaks of the granularity of links, or their 'creaminess'. To make my nodes as creamy as possible they can be linked by the smallest grain. The connected duality of the poster, that's created through the perforation, refers to the Memex dual screen concept.

Miriam Humm

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