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20 Years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK: A City Full of Posters
Posters from two decades of Vienna Design Week, honouring the designers who shaped the festival's look each autumn. In the MAK Poster Forum.
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The 2007 poster shows a red-capped salt shaker on a pink café table, seen through the letters of VIENNA DESIGN WEEKS, still plural that year. The 20th edition's poster is a giant V cut from green python skin on blue zebra stripes.
In between hang the posters from other autumns. Bia Grabner drew 2010 by hand in yellow, with a red stamp reading "A City Full of Design", the line this show borrows for its title. Bueronardin, who made the look from 2011 to 2024, adds a candy-striped 10, an anchor on sailor stripes and the Riesenrad dissolving into orange grain. SIRENE Studio built 2026 from 20 patterns, including cow spots, the edelweiss off the old one-schilling coin and dots taken from Roland Rainer's Stadthalle seats. If you've sat through a gig at the Stadthalle, you've already met one.
It's posters only, in the MAK Poster Forum. The MAK is open until 9pm on Tuesdays, and the show closes on Sunday 1 November.
Look for
The salt shaker poster (2007)
Look for Bia Grabner and Rudolf Zündel's close-up of a red-capped salt shaker and a bottle on a pink table, showing through the letters of the title.
The hand-drawn yellow poster (2010)
Bia Grabner's line drawing of people at an arched doorway with a chair out front, stamped in red with "A City Full of Design".
The candy-striped 10 (2016)
Bueronardin's tenth-anniversary poster twists a glossy red, green, white and yellow 10 over a carved wooden staircase and a tilted old window.
The Riesenrad in orange grain (2023)
One of Bueronardin's two 2023 posters shows the Prater Ferris wheel's red cabins against a sky dissolving into sprayed orange dots.
SIRENE Studio's 20th-edition pair (2026)
A giant V in green python skin on blue zebra stripes, and a field of black-and-white cow spots under bright green type.
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- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
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- 20 Years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK: A City Full of Posters© Graphic Design: SIRENE Studio
- tierisch menschlichGraciela Iturbide, Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1979. Dom Museum Wien, Otto Mauer Contemporary, Courtesy of the artist, Foto: L. Deinhardstein.
- A Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew - Eran ShakineCourtesy of Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)
- The Special Case of Steffy Goldner: The New York Philharmonic's First WomanCourtesy of Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)
- MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsGugerell / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Dom Museum WienBauer Alfons / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Haus der MusikClemens Pfeiffer, Wikimedia Commons
- Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)Sonja Bachmayer / Jewish Museum Vienna, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kunst Haus Wien – Museum HundertwasserC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0