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FIGHT FOR KINDNESS
Let's celebrate Kindness Day 2025!
The Global exhibition to celebrate World Kindness Day is in progress with 19 stages around the globe!
The global Fight for Kindness initiative, now in its 4th edition, aims to promote the power of kindness through typography and design. This award-winning non-profit initiative unites emerging and established talent who believe in the transformative power of creativity to drive social change.
Designers from all over the world participate by submitting typographic posters. Entries with the strongest messages are featured on our social media channels, in the online gallery, and included in the Fight for Kindness Annual publication, this year called "Visual Voices for Change" which is available now for pre-order on LazyDog Press ecommerce.
Selected posters are also showcased in international multi-city digital & physical exhibitions.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Eligibility
Who Can
Participate?
The entire creative community is invited to contribute with typographic messages or articles on the themes related to respect, inclusivity, love, tolerance environmental protection, integrity, and human responsibility.
Submissions
To participate, designers need to submit an artwork that contains an inspirational message for a more empathic, inclusive and kind world. Writers can also participate by submitting an original article on related themes.
Objective
Fight for kindness is a project designed to spread kindness in an unexpected and powerful way. Selected entries will be featured online and in the Annual publication. A curated selection will be showcased in global exhibitions.
THE BRIEF
When the call will be open again for the 2026 edition, designers should submit a poster artwork that contains a typographic headline/message to inspire social change. Writers can submit original articles related to these themes that establish the importance of Kindness in the community.
> The artworks or articles need to embody values like kindness, peace, empathy, love, respect, tolerance, altruism or equality.
> Poster submissions must use the templates provided, in 2 different proportions. In case of more than one submission (upto 3) you will need to fill in the submission form for each new subject.
> Please read the complete brief and guidelines before submitting.
> 2026 Deadline will be 15th May 2026.
Let's fight for kindness together and make it more alive than ever!
THE PROJECT
Fight for Kindness is a non-profit project open to the entire creative community in partnership with Zetafonts, ADCE, Typeroom, Type Directors Club, Slanted, OFFF, Posterheroes and other notable organizations. The 2025 edition received more than 760 submissions from 75+ countries, in 34 scripts and languages. Since the first edition in 2022, exhibitions have been held in multiple places across the globe in Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, UK, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, US and more. This project celebrates World Kindness Day, by unifying the global creative community.
The most impactful and meaningful submissions of the project are:
> Shared on our social media channels and featured in the online Poster Gallery
> Included in the annual Fight For Kindness publication (print + free download)
> A curated selection of these posters is showcased in global multi-city digital & physical exhibitions
The annual Fight For Kindness 2025: Visual Voices for Change is open for Pre-Order!
Pre-order your copy today from the LazyDog Press and enjoy 15% off until mid-February!
FEATURED POSTERS
GLOBAL EXHIBITIONS
CAMPAIGN PARTNERS
