Poster icons like Jules Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Chagall, Cassandre, Lenica og Fukuda as well as several of the best Danish graphic artists from Valdemar Andersen and Sven Brasch to Per Arnoldi and Finn Nygaard are represented. Through its presentation of man the poster shows different features of the development of fashion. The exhibition shows widely different techniques, styles, artists and visual expressions, presented in an international and urban perspective.
Divided into advertising, politics and culture the exhibition shows outstanding examples of the greatest, the best, the funniest, the strangest, the most beautiful and the most kitsch posters. In this way the poster is shown in its width, grandeur as well as its craziness, as the poster i
s not only art and design but a dynamic picture of the World as it looked before 
and as it looks now.
Pictures of the World: The Global Poster is not only an ambitious retrospective exhibition of posters, but an exhibition of graphic communication of a world in constant change. This world of pictures formed by the global poster combines historical depth with a global stamp and description of the present value of the media has never before been put on show in Denmark.
The curator of the exhibition is the Kunstindustrimuseet head librarian Lars Dybdahl, M.A., who simultaneously launches his book The Global Poster published by Nyt Nordisk Forlag.