Graphic Design
Maja Sofia Grbin
Glitch Cult Festival

Project
The poster for the Glitch Cult festival explores the aesthetics of digital error through a layered, vibrant composition in which colour, rhythm and structure collide in controlled chaos.
Inspired by the glitch phenomenon, the work uses fragmentation and visual noise as its primary expressive tools, while typography emerges organically from the background, blurring the boundary between text and image.
A dynamic network of lines and pixels creates a sense of disruption and instability, while emphasising the festival’s contemporary digital identity and experimental character.
Year
2026
Mentors and collaborators
Ana-Marija Poljanec, Assistant (mentor)
Institution
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture, School of Design
Author
Maja Sofia Grbin is a first-year student at the School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb.
The poster for the “Glitch Cult Festival” was created as an assignment for the Visual Communication Design 2 course. Through the project, she explored digital aesthetics, the glitch phenomenon and the relationship between typography, image and visual identity in the design of festival communication materials.



