Plop #02
PLOP - The Polish Design Revue explores the tension between Polish identity, global aesthetics, and the endless act of polishing. Through sharp questions, critical perspectives, and thought-provoking snapshots visual culture, this quarterly revue investigates what happens when Polish design becomes polished, overpolished, depolished—or something entirely new. By Slanted Publishers.
In this issue:
PLOP #02 asks what the poster (and post-poster) is today and where it is going. Does it still work as a tool of communication, a form of artistic expression, a medium of protest and presence in public space? Or has it become a ritual repeated by the design scene, almost like a para-religion? This issue features a conversation with Ola Jasionowska about the poster as civic practice, an essay by Katarzyna Matul on the poster as an export product, identity, and the legacy of communist-era Poland, a conversation with Karolina Pietrzyk about typography, collaboration, and controlled experiment, and Paweł Starzec’s photographic record of the visual aspects of protests.
Karlsruhe, Germany; 21×29cm; 32 Pages; Quarterly; June 2026