POST: Delivering Denmark’s newest design festival

This article is a brief reflection on the delivery and impact of POST, a new design festival which ran from 17-20 August 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. POST was delivered by an international team – including Irish curator Aideen McCole – and focused on the disciplines of graphic design, illustration and visual communication. In addition to a disciplinary focus, POST had a thematic focus too: that of the politics of image making, the working life of the visual communicator and the ethics of design. POST was the first of its kind in Copenhagen, as a design event focused on visual communication that placed politics and ethics at its heart, and proved to be a much-needed addition to design discourse in the Danish capital.