Plakaton 2025: Where forms and ideas intersect

The third edition of Plakaton, our poster design marathon – a bold creative initiative, returns this year as part of the 25th WATCH DOCS International Film Festival, one of the leading events focused on human rights in cinema.

December 6 | Admind’s Warsaw office, Marszałkowska 76
10 hours of intense design
33 participants, guided by top mentors
Theme: INTERPLAY (Przenikanie)

A celebration of design as dialogue

At Admind, we believe in the power of design to explore complexity, spark dialogue, and express urgent ideas. Plakaton reflects that belief not only as a competition, but as a space for experimentation, collaboration, and creative courage.

This year’s theme, Interplay (Przenikanie), is both a reflection of the world we live in and a call to explore the intersections of ideas, styles, and cultures. As part of WATCH DOCS, the theme takes on a deeper meaning – connecting aesthetics with awareness, form with ethics, and visual languages with human rights issues that transcend borders.

Interplay of forms, styles, and cultures

Posters have never existed in a vacuum. From the clash of Constructivism and Swiss typography, to the fusion of the Polish Poster School with Pop Art, and today, where digital glitches meet analog grain – posters mirror the world’s creative currents.

Plakaton 2025 invites designers to embrace contrast. Analog meets digital. Minimalism collides with expression. Classic illustration merges with experimental type. Through this tension, new meanings are born. “Interplay” (Przenikanie) becomes not just an artistic lens, but a metaphor for our time where global processes shape individual experience, and cultures blend, conflict, and co-exist in motion.

Interplay of meaning and message

In a world of constant movement of images, identities, and narratives, posters can become a layered response to complexity. They can capture the noise, nuance, and contradictions of the now. They can be dynamic, chaotic, emotional, urgent.

This is what we hope to see during Plakaton: Posters that feel like the world itself – layered, unstable, in conversation with each other. Designs that reflect not only what we think, but what we feel.

Interplay of energy

More than a contest, Plakaton is a shared experience.
It’s a creative marathon fueled by mentorship, idea exchange, and a sense of urgency. It’s a moment for young designers to challenge themselves, collaborate, and reflect together –  under the guidance of respected professionals from the design world.

The process culminates on December 13, during the closing gala of the WATCH DOCS Festival, where the winning posters will be announced and celebrated.

Key dates & how to apply

Apply now via the official form:  plakaton.admindagency.com

• Deadline for applications: November 14
• We will announce the selected 33 participants on November 17.
• The poster design marathon will take place on December 6 at Admind’s Warsaw office.
• The winners will be revealed on December 13 during the official closing gala of WATCH DOCS.

Join the experience

This year’s edition will be bold, thoughtful, and multilayered just like the world we live in. We invite creatives from all disciplines to take part in this fast-paced, immersive design journey.

See you in Warsaw and in the space between meaning and form that we’ll create together.