Author Archives: Reggae Poster Contest

Type foundry PARACHUTE offers package of fonts to the 1st place winner

We are excited to announce a generous new prize offer from the International award-winning type foundry PARACHUTE, based in Athens, Greece. The package of fonts worth 500€ will be awarded to the First Place winner in the 2016 International Reggae Poster Contest. Their fonts have been use in International branding campaign, such as Bank of America, European Commission, Emirates, Adidas Group, Nike, and European Football Association.…

Call for Entries: The 5th International Reggae Poster Contest, 2016

Theme: Toward a Reggae Hall of Fame: Celebrating Great Jamaican Music. CALL FOR ENTRIES: The 5th edition of the International Reggae Poster Contest 2016 will open for entries on November 1st (12am EST time), and will run until January, 31st, 2017 (12am EST time). The 100 best posters will be selected by a jury panel comprising…

Michael “Freestylee” Thompson (1958-2016)

Activist and artist Michael Thompson, also known as Freestylee, Artist without borders, died at his home, August 15, 2016 of a heart attack, according to the coroner’s result. He was 58. Born in Kingston, Jamaica lived for more than 25 years in the small city of Easton in Pennsylvania, United States. He studied graphic design…

The Art of Reggae Exhibition at Liverpool’s Festival of Reggae

1st June – 15th June 2016 Constellations, 35-39 Greenland Street, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool, L1 0BS Free admission (entry is subject to venue opening times and other events taking place at the venue) The International Reggae Poster Contest (IRPC) and Positive Vibration, Liverpool’s Festival of Reggae, are to host The Art of Reggae Exhibition, featuring 100…

The reggae/caribbean issue of the Australian Magazine Womankind showcased seven outstanding works of previous winners of the International Reggae Poster Contest.

Womankind is an ad-free newsstand distributed throughout the UK, Australia, NZ, the US, and Canada. The magazine has an initial circulation of 20,000 and is aiming to find a broad demographic of smart women interested in big ideas about philosophy, sociology and psychology. Womankind is produced by the team behind the world’s most widely distributed…

The IRPC 2015 Winners Announced

At Last, the Results for the Final Round: The 4th International Reggae Poster Contest is pleased to announce the top 100 winners of the 2015 contest. The top three winners were successful in securing the Award for Best-designed Reggae Posters 2015. This year, we exceeded the number of posters submitted in each of the previous…