FIG.5, Festival for Illustration and Graphics

The fifth edition of FIG. (Festival for Illustration and Graphics) took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. The festival hosted numerous exhibitions, group shows, talks, workshops, concerts and screenings. The identity and graphics were created by Velko Kalchev, who came up with a colorful collage of cut-and-paste-style visuals, blended with type and dotted lines. The festival’s website adds a level of playfulness with animated dotted lines. The design uses the chunky Montagu Slab (Florian Karsten Typefaces) for the logo and Good Direction Sans (Folch) for headlines. The text font is HAL Timezone by HAL Typefaces, nicely making use of its small caps.

The first paragraph from the opening press release:

What happens when artists, designers, thinkers, and curators come together to reimagine the future of cultural practice? The fifth edition of FIG. – Festival for Illustration and Graphics invites the public to find out. From June 6 to 15, 2025, Sofia transforms into a playground for collective creativity, exploring the theme How We Work Together. This year, the festival is dedicated to collaboration in all its forms—intentional, subconscious, and even accidental—bringing together emerging and established voices from the contemporary visual scene to challenge traditional ideas of authorship and creativity.