Posterheroes 2026: Still Human

Posterheroes 2026: Still Human is now open for entries!

Posterheroes 2026, an international graphic design competition now in ita 15th eiditon organised by PLUG association, is opened for entries inviting the creative international community, dedicated to exploring humanity and human diversity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Short description

Posterheroes has opened the 15th edition of their international social design contest “Still Human“, dedicated to exploring humanity and human diversity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Posterheroes is an international contest about social communication that calls for posters (70×100 cm) about social and environmental issues.

Every year, Posterheroes invites students, professional designers, and everyone who is into graphic design to create a poster about topics of social interest.

This time Posterheroes invites designers and creatives to explore the jagged boundary between delegation and responsibility, automation and choice, efficiency and creativity, generation and creation, norms and transformation. The goal is not to judge technology, but to make its effects and imaginaries visible. Artificial intelligence today is a pervasive infrastructure that shapes language, relationships, perception, and power.

Algorithms influence what we see, what we buy, and what we consider true. They select content, suggest pathways, guide tastes and preferences, organize our time, and redefine priorities.

In this scenario, the question increasingly concerns the meaning of human experience within a technological ecosystem that we help design, feed, and use every day. How much do we depend on artificial intelligence, and in what ways does this relationship transform how we know, choose, and imagine the future?

Automation is not only about operational tasks but also about evaluation criteria and decision-making processes. At the same time, AI learning systems often remain opaque and concentrated in the hands of a few actors. When trained on partial or unrepresentative datasets, algorithms can amplify biases and inequalities. When a system evaluates, recommends, or excludes, the consequences have cultural, economic, and social implications, influencing even the diversity and complexity of experiences, identities, and forms of expression that define what it means to be human.

If machines can produce, optimize, predict, and recommend, where does human agency stand today?

What remains indispensable about human experience in a world increasingly governed by code, data, and algorithmic models?

Does authorship remain an individual act, or is it increasingly taking the form of a process shared between human and machine?

What kind of society do the imaginaries generated by artificial intelligence allow us to glimpse?

In a system capable of generating endlessly, human value emerges in choices, responsibility, and intention: in the ability to interpret, give meaning, and open unexpected possibilities. Still Human invites the creation of posters that express how human experience transforms through the ongoing interaction between artificial intelligence, technology, and society.

All the works are judged by a selection panel composed of some of the most relevant graphic design and visual communication experts.

Submission requirements

➜ Create your unpublished posters sized 70x100cm
➜ All text must be in English
➜ Submit up to 3 posters

Eligibility

Participation is open to creatives of any age or nationality, to both individual authors and groups.

Prize

All the works are judged by a selection panel composed of some of the most relevant graphic design and visual communication experts that choses 40 winning posters. Among the forty (40) winners, the Organizers will award the Favini Prize, worth €2,500 and the Time2 Prize, worth €1,500.

Favini, in collaboration with the Cultural Association Plug, will select twelve (12) posters among the forty (40) winners for the production of the 2027 Calendar. All authors of the forty (40) winning works will receive a copy of the 2027 Calendar.