Vintage Posters | Warsaw September 1968 | Mlodozeniec

The “Warszawski Wrzesien” (“Warsaw September”), now called the “Warsaw Autumn”, was created in 1956 to showcase contemporary Polish music. More than 60 years later,  it is still going strong. This original poster is from the 1968 event. Art for this poster is by Jan Mlodozeniec, who was born in 1929 in Warsaw, Poland. He was a Polish graphic designer that worked in posters, drawing, book and publication design, and illustration. He studied from 1948 to 1955 at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the Department of Graphic Arts and Posters with Henryk Tomaszewski. He also was a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI), a club composed of the world’s leading artists and designers. He won such awards as the Gold Medal, International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, 1980, and First Prize, Poster Biennale in Lahti, Finland, 1984. He passed away in 2000.