Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Festival of Tolerance Collateral

We received some additional photos of our design for 8th Festival of Tolerance - JFF Zagreb, and 20th Anniversary of Schindler's List on Behance. We designed the collateral in collaboration with Havas Worldwide, Zargeb.

More photos here:







Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Lettering Large reviewed in Novum Magazine

The June 2014 issue of German magazine “NOVUM: World of Graphic Design” has published a story on Steve Heller and my book "Lettering Large", with Herbert Lechner’s interview with me.



Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Art in Dark Times

"Art in Dark Times" is an exhibition of 101 press cartoons from all perspectives on the Yugoslav conflicts drawn by 34 renowned cartoonists and illustrators from the former Yugoslavia.

The show will be exhibited in Sarajevo from May 14th to 24th 2014 at the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from June 04th to 12th in Zagreb at the Student Centre and from June 17th to 28th in Belgrade at Mikser House.

For the show they selected my cover illustration "Dogs of War" from The New York Times Book Review from January 21st, 1996.

This is not the first time that the illustration is being shown on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia.

In March 2005 for my one-man show in Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, Serbia, organized and curated by Anica Tucakov. Graphic designer Aleksandar Maćašev created the banner for the show between else by placing the letter "ć", my logo, on the helmet of the Dog of War.

People that weren't familiar with my logo were complaining, thinking that it was a letter "č".

Friday, May 2, 2014

Satirical Theatre Kerempuh 50th Anniversary

We were asked recently to designed the logo for the 50th Anniversary of Satirical Theatre Kerempuh. The theatre is known for staging the satirical and political comedies. To stay in that spirit fo the theatre, we decided to "deface" their original logo by tallying fifty years over it, as a prisoner (political?) or a stranded person would do. 
Because the "defacing" looks like graffiti and knowing that the logo will be used for billboards and posters, we intentionally left large white areas to encourage people to show "their creativity".

Original logo for Satirical Theatre Kerempuh:








Here are some of applications of the 50th Anniversary Of Satirical Theatre Kerempuh logo on matches, soap boxes, buttons, and toad bags. Some of the poster designs for 50th Anniversary of Satirical Theatre Kerempuh can be seen in our earlier blog post.


Thursday, May 1, 2014

Graphic Design x 100

The new book "Graphic Design x 100", by Dorian Lucas, featuring 100 graphic designers from around the world, just got published by Braun publishing company from Switzerland.

Three of our projects are featured in the book:

Oktobarski Salon which we designed with Sandra Milanović for The Cultural Center of Belgrade, Serbia.

Identity and design for the Jewish Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia, in collaboration with Sanja Kuzmanović.

Identity and collateral for Play restaurant at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado, USA.

Friday, April 25, 2014

100th Anniversary of Sarajevo

Milton Glaser and I, among other artists, got invited by Sarajevo 1914-2014 project to create posters which are going to be exhibited in June of this year. Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents the meeting point of civilizations, cultures and religions. Milton came up with the idea for each of us to create posters which work side by side together, "meeting" each other. We divided the letters of the word Sarajevo. Milton got A, J, V and O and I got the letters R, A and E. We split the letter S. 

Milton created his poster first, and it looked very modern to me. Because of that I decided that  I would create "old" poster.  Poster about past Sarajevo, 100 years ago. For that I decided to create posters with the look of filigree and crochet for both of which Sarajevo was well known. 

With a little back and forth between us, we managed to match the posters in color and looks.

Below you can see Milton's poster, my poster and two possible poster combinations.