Participating artists
Studio opening of Typetonic +
Poster showcase curated with Aga Mori
Fu Lee Loy Shopping Centre
9–27 King Wah Road
Fortress Hill
Hong Kong
Participating artists
Aceler Chua
Hong Kong
Aceler Chua is a Hong Kong based visual designer who specialises in letterforms and typography. He creates visual work across mediums such as print and web, with an emphasis on simplicity with organic brush strokes and outlines.
Aceler graduated from De La Salle — College of Saint Benilde, Philippines. Having spent time between Hong Kong and Manila in his earlier years, Aceler is immersed extensively to different societies and cultures and later embodied the multicultural perspective in his work.
Beautiful typesetting and letterforms have always captured Aceler’s attention. He previously published the font Farro on Google Fonts with Grayscale. In 2022, Aceler started his own design practice — Typetonic Studio, where he uses type and posters as the medium and playground for telling thought-provoking stories.
Aga Mori
Hong Kong
An independent artist and curator based in Hong Kong. Aga Mori holds a PhD in Visual Arts of University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, where she has been studying and working as a professor assistant for more than 10 years.
Aga’s artworks have been shown in numerous exhibitions all over the world. She has also been awarded a number of prizes, such as the 3rd International Experimental Engraving Biennial in Romania and Katowice Triennial of Graphic Arts, Poland. Since moving to Hong Kong, Aga has been actively coordinating, organizing and curating art and design exhibitions and events in Asia.
Aga curated various projects and exhibitions, including two editions of “Posterized”: “Posterized. Poster Art from Poland” in 2018, and “Posterized: Warsaw International Poster Biennale in Hong Kong” in 2021, both at Qube, PMQ. In 2019 was invited to be the guest curator of the first HK edition of “JAGDA. Japanese Graphic Design” Exhibition.
Max Skorwider
Poland
Max Skorwider (born 1980) is a graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer, visual artist, and curator from Poznań, Poland.
Max’s work are awarded in various competitions and reviews of graphics, posters and illustrations, both within Poland and around the world. These prestigious awards include: 1st Prize, Biennale AUG Design - Praha; 1st Prize, Biennale 4th Block, Ukraine; and Special Prize, XXII and XXVI Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice. Max is also an accomplished author who has designed several books for children and teenagers.
Aside from working as a professor at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, where he gained his post-doctoral degree and runs the 7th Graphic Design Studio — Comics and Graphic Novel, Max is also permanently cooperating with the Polityka weekly, Kultura Liberalna and the Meakultura Foundation for creating comics and press illustration.
Together with Aga Mori, Max curated and designed: Posterized - Poster from Poland (2018) and Posterized- Warsaw International Biennale in Hong Kong (2021), PMQ Hong Kong exhibitions.
Szymon Szymankiewicz
Poland
Szymon Szymankiewicz (born 1985 in Łódź) is a graduate and lecturer at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań, and a graphic and poster designer. He has received numerous awards and prizes, and his work has been shown at exhibitions in dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Szymankiewicz is one of the most interesting and recognizable poster designers among the young generation of Polish artists. His work is characterized by stark minimalism, transforming well-known symbols, and the use of pared-down colors. Most of his art is devoid of any words, therefore offering a universal message. The artist often addresses difficult and controversial socio-political topics, such as fascism, racism, anti-semitism, misogyny or homophobia, and such problems as the abuse of power, authoritarian violence against citizens, or indifference to marginalized groups of people or phenomena.