The entry fee of the International Biennale of Poster in Mexico is free, so that the young designers get the opportunities and encouragement of internationalization. Young designers and students usually do not have sufficient financial capacity to afford the entry fee in international competitions. Over the years, the organizer of International Biennale of Poster in Mexico has a quite special policy, that is, donating or contributing a design book, then the entry fee is free.(the books will be collected in the library of biennale) . This is quite unique and significant in international poster competitions.

The organizer’s purpose of the biennale is not only positioning in an international competition, it also considers the link between education and design, and focus on the unique design culture in Mexico; the main route is the dissemination of contemporary aesthetics and creativeness. Its impact is the development and direction of Iconographic and helps the degree of identifiability and extending of Mexican visual culture. For example, in 1997, the internationally renowned design school, Universidad Veracruzana, was invited to cooperatively promote Mexican design culture. In 2012, the exhibition, "A Tribute to Poster and their Authors”, had been organized, selecting the most classic 60 posters in the history of poster design during 16th century to 21st century which were refreshed and output in one size by HP company for the exhibition. This also showed the cooperation mode of the organizer and the industry.

The 11th International Biennale of Poster in Mexico totally received more than 4,000 works from more than 45 countries around the world, and finally selected 302 works from 36 countries. More than 1,700 students and designers attended the lecture which was located in the Consejo Nactional para la Cultura las Artes (National Mexican Culture and Arts Center), and the speakers were from Russia, Spain, Mexico, Argentina,  USA, Canada , Japan, Poland, Germany, France, etc. This cultural and artistic center consists of music, art, theater, and other different functional buildings, and the architecture is colorful and highly characteristic. The workshop of 11th International Biennale of Poster in Mexico attracted 300 Mexican domestic and foreign students to participate in, and there are symposiums and study groups within the period of the workshop - various topics including Design Theory, Poster Design, Digital Media, and Publishing and Design, and so on.

Contests of International Biennale of Poster in Mexico

The participants can be including design students, graphic designers, plastic artists, photographers, graphic producers, of any age and nationality. The entries can be the posters published within the two years preceding the tournament. In this poster contest, for example, the categories included: (A) Culture and activity themed posters (B) political and social issues posters (C) advertising posters of commercial activities, products, or services (D) unpublished posters of the assigned theme: Think. Eat. Save. Reduce your footprint, global campaign against loss and food waste.  D category is based on the Cooperation Conference of the organizer and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the University Environment Programme of UNAM (PUMA) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, National Autonomous University of Mexico). The Category D is divided into two groups. Section Students and Section Professionals;  Category D aims to raise public awareness that food waste is a global problem that has negative impacts on human, environment, and economic consequences. Already many countries and regions have launched various initiatives, to curb waste production. It is possible to transmit combat this problems through small changes in our habits. Posters will be evaluated and, if that is the case, selected by a committee formed by distinguished designers and experts in graphic design.

The previous posters of International Biennale of Poster in Mexico obviously expressed the ambitions and the intentions of the openness of issues for many years. Under the influence of globalization, the advance of technology and the gradually diminishing of the boundaries or borders have resulted that the distances among borders have been no longer relative relationships among geographic locations. Relatively, a disaster of a country also affects the whole world. The issue of biodiversity (table 1), food, energy, or climate warming (table 2), human rights (Table 3) and the issues of cultural diversity, the gap between rich and poor, etc. are affecting everyone living in the global village including you and me. Poster design can fast response design results, and design is the crystallization of sociological observation, is the comprehensively phenomenological inference with known results. The successive evolutionary changes of international issues can be peeped through the previous posters of the International Biennale of Poster in Mexico. Wish the media of posters can also inspire social interests, and become a tool for transmission of cultural trends and political themes of the society, as well as for commercial purposes.