About the opportunity
What this programme is offering
🌍 Theme: Beyond Horizons: Designing a Sustainable Future
Are you a graphic designer, visual artist, student, or creative thinker passionate about using design to address global challenges?
The 7th Bolu International Poster Design Competition (BIAH) invites designers from around the world to explore sustainability, innovation, and global responsibility through powerful and creative poster design.
Organized by the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, the competition provides an international platform for designers to communicate ideas, raise awareness, stimulate dialogue, and imagine a more sustainable future.
📅 Key Details at a Glance
Competition: 7th Bolu International Poster Design Competition (BIAH)
Theme: Beyond Horizons: Designing a Sustainable Future
Deadline: 1 November 2026
Results Announcement: Expected December 2026
Entry Fee: 🆓 FREE
Location: International / Worldwide
Organizer: Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University
🌱 About the Theme
This year's theme, “Beyond Horizons: Designing a Sustainable Future,” challenges participants to look beyond established boundaries in thinking, design, technology, and society.
Designers are encouraged to imagine alternative futures shaped by:
💡 Creativity
🌍 Sustainability
🤝 Responsibility
🚀 Innovation
🔗 Collaboration
👥 Social awareness
The competition invites participants to use poster design as a tool for visualizing ideas, raising awareness, and encouraging conversations about the future of our planet and society.
🎯 Areas of Focus
Participants can explore sustainability as a multidimensional concept, including:
Social transformation
Economic development
Technological innovation
Responsible consumption and production
Education and opportunity
Global responsibility
Sustainable development
Collaboration and partnerships
The competition particularly connects with selected United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including:
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Participants are encouraged to develop their own visual interpretation of these issues rather than simply illustrating them literally.
🖼️ What Kind of Posters Can You Create?
The competition welcomes diverse creative approaches.
Your submission may be:
Critical and thought-provoking
Symbolic and conceptual
Experimental and innovative
Visually expressive
Awareness-focused
Based on a unique interpretation of sustainability
The goal is to use your own visual language and conceptual perspective to communicate an idea that makes people think about the future.
🏆 Awards & Recognition
The competition offers recognition to selected participants.
📜 Certificate of Participation
Participants whose works are accepted by the jury for exhibition will receive a digital Certificate of Participation.
🥇 Top Three Works
The owners of the top three works will receive a symbolic digital BIAH Achievement Certificate.
👑 First-Place Winner
The 1st-place winner will receive an additional opportunity to serve as a jury member in the next BIAH event.
This provides the winning designer with an opportunity to contribute to the future edition of the international competition.
💰 Entry Fee
🆓 NO ENTRY FEE!
Participation in the competition is completely free.
🌍 Why Participate?
The BIAH competition offers creatives an opportunity to:
Showcase their ideas through international poster design
Address important global sustainability challenges
Gain recognition for creative work
Participate in an international design platform
Receive a digital certificate if selected for exhibition
Compete for the BIAH Achievement Certificate
Potentially become a jury member in the next BIAH event
👨🎨 Competition Organization
The competition is organized on behalf of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University by:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhun Türker – Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
Dr. Abdurrahman Özdemir – Research Assistant, Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University
⏰ Don't Miss the Deadline!
If you are passionate about graphic design, visual communication, sustainability, innovation, or social impact, this is an opportunity to turn your ideas into a powerful visual message.
📌 Deadline: 1 November 2026
💰 Entry Fee: FREE
🌍 Open internationally
🎨 Theme: Beyond Horizons: Designing a Sustainable Future
🚀 Ready to make your message visible?
How to apply