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.

Carnivore 1

This poster was created during a workshop held by Rober Radziejewski in the winter term 2023/2024 at my art school Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule of Art and Design in Halle, Germany.

Our task was to pick a book of our choice and excerpt its contents and translate them into a poster that would be later be screen printed by us.For my poster, I chose to work with an old biology book from my primary school. I was particularly interested in the pages about carnivorous plants and used different techniques of scanning and image manipulation to create this poster. Coming from an illustrator background, I found it especially inspiring to combine graphic design with my illustration practice and bringing these two mediums together. Using the software spectrolite, I was able to rasterize the scans and add grain and texture to the images. I especially enjoyed approaching graphic design with a playful, childlike method of altering the text layout in an untypical way and combining the different elements together to create new meaning and unexpected connections.

Miriam Wiskemann

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