Anaklia 33 — United States International Poster Biennial
Nelli Kamaeva
Poster
A small series about hearing with your eyes — jazz treated as something you watch vibrate, color and rhythm doing the listening for you.
A small series about hearing with your eyes — jazz as something you watch vibrate, not just hear.
The lead poster, "tuning," turns a vinyl record into a giant eyeball: a turquoise iris with a red center, grooves doubling as both disc and pupil, the word "improvisation" curling around it and a gritty halftone city skeleton glowing red and yellow at the bottom. A second poster, "taming," swaps the eye for a dense thicket of fibrous coral-and-yellow texture wrapped around JAZZ IMPROVISATION and the dates.
Both lean on the same idea: color and rhythm doing the listening for you. The series was made for Jazz in Ruins, a Polish festival that puts rising jazz musicians and young graphic designers on the same bill, very much in the spirit of the Polish School of Posters.
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A small series about hearing with your eyes — jazz as something you watch vibrate, not just hear.
The lead poster, "tuning," turns a vinyl record into a giant eyeball: a turquoise iris with a red center, grooves doubling as both disc and pupil, the word "improvisation" curling around it and a gritty halftone city skeleton glowing red and yellow at the bottom. A second poster, "taming," swaps the eye for a dense thicket of fibrous coral-and-yellow texture wrapped around JAZZ IMPROVISATION and the dates.
Both lean on the same idea: color and rhythm doing the listening for you. The series was made for Jazz in Ruins, a Polish festival that puts rising jazz musicians and young graphic designers on the same bill, very much in the spirit of the Polish School of Posters.
Links & coverage. Official: https://www.usipb.com/ · https://www.instagram.com/unitedstatesipb/ · https://www.facebook.com/unitedstatesipb/ · https://www.usipb.com/edition-2025 · https://usipb.com/selected/. Press & coverage: PosterTerritory — https://www.posterterritory.com/the-united-states-international-poster-biennial/ · Graphic Competitions — https://graphiccompetitions.com/graphic-design/united-states-international-poster-biennial-2025/ · Iowa State University College of Design — https://www.design.iastate.edu/events/united-states-international-poster-biennial-exhibition/.
Anaklia 33 — United States International Poster Biennial
Nelli Kamaeva
