Graphis Poster Awards 2026

I am glad to announce that among the various poster awards presented by this year's Graphis Magazine's Poster Awards 2026, my theater poster designs received one Platinum, two Gold, and four Silver medals.

These seven posters will be featured in the upcoming book Graphis Poster Annual 2026.

You can find more information about my theater posters here.

 

Print Magazine Award to A.C. 2020

 

I am very pleased to share that the jury of the prestigious "Print Magazine" has awarded my A.C. 2020 visual essay the Second Place Award in the Graphic Novels category.

You can see more pages from my A.C. 2020 visual essay here.

48 Years Later, Part 2

 At my tender age, when I didn't have many creative assignments to entertain myself, I drew one-page-long comics. I practiced ways to tell stories, experimenting with different drawing styles, etc. During that period, in 1977, I drew a comic titled "The Victor". A few years later, I stopped drawing comics.

Recently, I went back to drawing them. Now, 48 years later, I decided to revisit the character in "The Victor"—I just wanted to see what happened to him in the meantime, how he is holding up, and what he did with himself.

Here he is.

 

My Design for the "14th Festival of Miroslav Krleža"

These days the city of Zagreb, Croatia is displaying my poster and billboard design, announcing the 14th Festival of Miroslav Krleža.

The festival is organized by Goran Matovic and Teatar poezije Zagreb. 

Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981) is the most celebrated Croatian writer. I created his profile wearing his very characteristic hat. Because one of his most famous novels is titled Zastave (The Flags) I made his profile out of all incarnations of Croatian flags during his lifetime. 

The poster is very successful but controversial because of the symbols in the past incarnations of the Croatian flags. Also, this poster design has received lots of attention and many international awards.

That is why this is the 4th year in a row that the festival has been using a variation of my design.

Here you can see the original poster and billboard design.

 

Oedipus Poster Wins Zgraf 13 Excellence Award

I am pleased to let you know that my poster Oedipus, which I created for JDP – Yugoslav Drama Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia, has won the Zgraf 13's Excellence Award. Zgraf is an international graphic design and visual arts communication show held in Zagreb, Croatia. Zgraf is organized by ULUPUH – the Croatian Association of Applied Arts.  

This award was given by the international jury of prominent figures in the design world: Peter Bankov, Melike Tascioglu Vaughan, Don Ryun Chang, Izvorka Jurić, and Lawrence Zeegen. They awarded a total of nineteen awards and honorable mentions.  

The Executive Board of Zgraf 13, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Zgraf, awarded five Zgraf 50 Honor Awards for special contribution to Zgraf and I was one of the recipients.  I would like to extend my gratitude to Zgraf for this honor.

 

My Work at European Design Festival Show

I’m pleased to let you know that starting June 6th, my work is being featured in the Eccentricityexhibition, part of the European Design Festival 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition includes my design for Prljavo Kazalište’s LP record, covers created for Danas and Time magazines, and my OP-ED page designs for The New York Times.

 

European Design Festival 2025 is taking place in Ljubljana, and is organized by the Brumen Foundation. One of the central events of the Festival is the exhibition Eccentricity – Design From the Off-Centre, which explores contemporary design and the historical legacy of design in the former Yugoslav republics through the thematic lens of radical and unconventional design approaches. These approaches deliberately break established standards, challenge or even invert our perceptions of what design and visual communication are.

 

The exhibition concept revolves around two related notions – eccentricity and off-centre – to simultaneously express both the nature of the creative practices showcased and the position of our design cultures in relation to the so-called centres, to what is often uncritically accepted as the source, model, or mainstream of design throughout history and today. In other words, rather than positioning ourselves in relation to undeniably strong (“Western”) traditions of typography, posters, illustration, book design, advertising, and the like, this exhibition confronts us with works defined by strong concepts and provocative communication gestures. These are realized across a broad spectrum of media and approaches, all aiming to understand design as a reflective and discursive practice – one that, beyond métier and skill, has something to say about communication itself, the social context in which it emerges, the public space it inhabits, the ripples it creates – and, above all, about ourselves.

 

The exhibition includes works by designers, studios, and artists such as Mihajlo Arsovski, Boris Bućan, Dora Bilić & Tina Mueller, Vanja Cuculić, Sanja Bachrach Kristofić & Mario Krištofić, Branko Bačanović Bambi, Ferenc Barat, Jože Brumen, Lana Cavar & Narcisa Vukojević, Eduard Čehovin, Zoran Đukić / ĐKĆ, Bojana Fajmut, Orsat Franković, Damir Gamulin, Grupa Ee, Mirko Ilić, Sanja Iveković, Radmila Jovandić Đapić, Mihajlo Kalabić, Šejla Kamerić, Dalida Karić-Hadžiahmetović, Anur Hadžiomerspahić, Tomato Košir, Dejan Kršić, Tomaž Kržišnik, Miljenko Licul, Boris Ljubičić, Dalibor Martinis, Slobodan Mašić, Studio Imitacija Života, Ira Payer /Superstudio, Studio Sonda, Ranko Novak, Novi Kolektivizam, Zdravko Papič, Nejc Prah, Sanja Iveković, Goran Trbuljak, Tanja Radež, Petja Selan, Slavimir Stojanović, Talent, Trio Sarajevo, Jovan Trkulja, Borut Vild, Matjaž Vipotnik, Ivana Vučić, Marko Vuleta Đukanov, Irena Woelle, Primož Zorko and many others.

 

The author of the Eccentricity exhibition is Marko Golub.

 

"100 Years – 100 Objects" at The Design Museum in Munich

I am very pleased to share that my COVID awareness poster "Don't Stop, Keep Going, Be Safe" was chosen to represent the year 2020 in the show "100 Years – 100 Objects" at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum in Munich, Germany.   

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich is presenting an exhibition of 100 objects. These 100 objects reflect the richness and diversity of Die Neue Sammlung. In addition to numerous iconic works, this selection features many unknown treasures that have never before been seen at the Pinakothek der Moderne. This unusual presentation does not follow a traditional chronology, but rather focuses on the time in which the objects came to the museum. Sorting them by acquisition year allows for a new perspective on the museum's collection history. The presentation reflects trends, insights, and influences, allowing for a new examination of the collection and bringing it to life.  

Photos by Gerhardt Kellermann