The title Divarkoob is derived from an old name that was used instead of "poster" in Iran in the last century. This name has been selected by the curators for the exhibition of 98 posters of 51 active Iranian graphic designers.

In response to the question that why again poster exhibition, they say: In Iran posters are obsolete more than other categories of graphic design and there isn't any public place to present them. Meanwhile every year Iranian graphic designers create lots of posters for competitions and exhibitions but most of them wouldn't accede to street where the main location to show them is. In this case we are trying to represent posters in different cities and we hope it can help to increase the knowledge of students and people in there.

Fortunately we could show three series of Divarkoob exhibitions in Semnan, Shiraz & Tehran in Vijeh Gallery and with the presence of Majid Abbasi up to July 2010. Whereupon this exhibition will be held in October and November in another two big cities such as Isfahan and Mashhad with some changes in its composition and also a workshop will have been managed by Saed Meshki, Parisa Tashakori and Amirhosein Ghoochibeik beside of Isfahan event.
 

Belarus: Olga Pavlova
Jouri Toreev
Belgium: Jurgen Maelfeyt
Canada: Andrew Lewis
China: Sun Dawang
Zhang Jie
Croatia: Vanja Cuculic
Dominican Republic: Taber Calderon
Finland: Konsta Ojala
France: Julian Legendre
Yann Legendre
Germany: 2xGoldstein
Vito Bica
Henning Kreitel
Iran: Narges Abbaszadeh
Maryam Akbarzadeh
Maryam Azad
Alireza Bakhtiari
Alireza Nosrati
Maryam Parvaneh
Saeed Rezvanian
Italy: Leonardo Sonnoli
Vincenzo Valerio Fagnani
Japan: Hiroyuki Matsuishi
Hiroki Yamamoto
Korea: Yong il Lee
Song, Won-Hak
Macau , CHINA: Hong Chong Ip
Chao Sioleong
Mexico: Benito Cabans
Flores Coyotl Oscar Olaf
Farid Martinez
Elmer Sosa Herrera
Fabiola Vera Gasca
Laura Vergara
Poland: Grzegorz Drobny
Eugeniusz Skorwider
Tomasz Kipka
Stefan Lechwar
Marcin Urbańczyk
Agnieszka Ziemiszewska
Portugal: João Machado
Russia: Igor Cherny
Babkina Evgenia
Alexey Malina
Kalashnikova Valeria
Spain: Sergi Rucabado Rebes ((Spain/Mexico))
David Torrents
Switzerland: Erich Brechbuhl
Francois Canellas
Sebastian Cremers
Melchior Imboden
Daniel Peter
Cybu Richli & Fabienne Burri
Niklaus Troxler
Taiwan: Brad Tzou
Turkey: Suleyman Tosuner
USA: Marlena Buczek Smith
Lance Rutter
Daniel Zender

and in lateral section which consist of section of works which had been selected by jury but hadn't enough vote for competition section. Works by:

Belarus: Jouri Toreev
Belgium: Jurgen Maelfeyt
China: Zhang Jie
Finland: Konsta Ojala
France: Pierre Kurczewski
Germany: Henning Kreitel
Iran: Narges Abbaszadeh
Maryam Azad
Vahid Bahrami
Alireza Bakhtiari
Yaser Delfan
Toktam Hemmati
Katayoon Arfai
Naz Mousavi
Alireza Nosrati
Maryam Parvaneh
Milad Salehi
Reza Vojdani
Japan: Toshiyasu Nanbu
Hiroki Yamamoto
Korea: Kim Hyun Sik
Latvia: Ainar Olutnieks
Mexico: Osvaldo Gaona
Elmer Sosa Herrera
Fabiola Vera Gasca
Netherlands: Harmen Liemburg
Poland: Iwona Cichy
Tomasz Kipka
Stefan Lechwar
Piotr Mlodozeniec
Kaja Renaks
Russia: Babkina Evgenia
Kargol Stas
Switzerland: Erich Brechbuhl
Francois Canellas
Sebastian Cremers
Melchior Imboden
Taiwan: Brad Tzou
USA: Marlena Buczek Smith
Daniel Zender

and works by jury and member of Vibre International Group consist of works by:
Bolivia: Marina Cordova Alvestegui
Finland: Timo Berry
Germany: Gotz Gramlich
Iran: Milad Shokouhi
Japan: Hiroyuki Matsuishi
Poland: Paulina Gancarczyk + Tomasz Kipka
Russia: Yuri Gulitov + Yuri Surkov
Switzerland: Erich Brechbuhl + Francois Canellas + Ralph Schraivogel + Annik Troxler + Martin Woodtli
USA: Ronald Cala

With special thanks to: www.adambarfiha.com , www.posterpage.ch , Rene Wanner , www.VitrinRooz.com, Amin Salami Pargoo, Reza Kazemi , Saeed Salvati Khoshghalb , Payam Sheikhi.

Festival Manager
Milad Shokouhi

The 10th Tehran International Poster Biennial
Since poster design in the contemporary Iranian graphics has found a significant and established status in the international scene, the Center for Visual Arts of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in collaboration with the Institute for Development of Visual plans to organize the 10th Tehran International Poster Biennial.

The Notice for the 10th Tehran International Poster Biennial is announced as follows:

The Main Section:
The main section of the 10th Tehran International Poster Biennial consists of posters designed, printed and published after June 2007, which have a cultural and social content. Posters submitted for this section must have been printed by offset or silk screen methods (single copy posters, which have been made on order will not be accepted).

The Thematic Section:“The Contemporary Man and the Environment”, is the title of the theme which will form the basis of works to be submitted by the contestants.