I wish you a lot of ...

... in the upcoming year!:-)

(-:Smejavo 2009:-)

Predvsem to:-).

Antonov cirkus ...

... prejel nagrado za Najlepšo slovensko knjigo 2008, v kategoriji Književnost ter knjige za otroke in mladino! Nagrada, ki jo podeljuje Strokovno združenje založnikov in knjigotržcev Slovenije pri GZS, pomeni priznanje za izjemno raven oblikovanja slovenske knjige in spodbudo za založbe, da bi nenehno skrbele za zviševanje te ravni (iz sejemske knjižice). Knjigo Petra Svetine je uredila Jana Bauer, v angleščino prevedla Erica Johnson Debeljak, ilustriral Damijan Stepančič, oblikovala moja malenkost, izšla pa je pod skupnim okriljem Vodnikove založbe in založbe Sodobnost International, kot sedma knjigica v dvojezični zbirki Spominčice / Forget-me-nots.

Anton's Circus awarded as Most Beautiful Slovene Book 2008 (in category Literature and Books for Children & Youth)!

Illustration Friday: Vacant

G, getting into reading during vacant hours.

Illustration Friday: Clique

"The bullies lifted their eyes and gaped at it. Then one of them suddenly had a clothespin squeezed on his nose. It closed his nostrils so he had to open his mouth to breathe. “Ow!” he cried. And then the other ten had clothespins on their noses too. “Ow!” they all cried together." (From the book Spots becomes a World Champion by Evald Flisar, illustrated by me)

Illustration Friday: Clutter

A simple way to declutter one's mind.

Illustration Friday: Memories

This illustration is a memory of my 3-month stay in Budapest, as a part of CEEPUS programme (Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies). It was made on a sunny sunday afternoon at the end of my first week there.

Človek: navodila za uporabo

New book jacket that I designed for the second edition of Nara's book called Human: Instructions For Use. Handwriting is by Nara himself. (Knjiga je izšla ta mesec, pri založbi Mea Valens. Še povezava do Meinega bloga. Tako.)

Illustration Friday: Detach

The above watercolour was made early this summer, during a stay in a Bosnian raft camp, rather detached from civilization. Taking along drawing kit to such a place is advisable thing to do, otherwise you can end up playing parlour games all day long ... (not that there's anything wrong with that, but doodling is more fulfilling anyway:-)

Dark Experience

Book jacket that I illustrated and designed for the book series Izmenjave / Exchanges (Sodobnost International, 2008). It went to printing house violet and it came back deep-blue-black ...

Designed lately ...

These are few parts of a catalogue called Award - winning plays by Evald Flisar. It was published by Texture Press & International Plays, designed by me, printed in China and distributed throughout the World:-).

Illustration Friday: Hoard ...

... of illustrations :-).

Illustration Friday: Forgotten

Dormitory kitchen - a forgotten illustration from my onetime sketch-block.

European movies dare to ...

This idea was created by Primoz and me in november 2007 at Kalidays festival - it won the 1st place at the Start Smart Copy and Art workshop led by dutch creative team Martin Mol and Jos van der Lee. Here you can see them talking very nicely about our work! Anyhow, our task was to create a billboard, which would attract viewers to visit European film festival at Slovenian Cinematheque. Later on, I came up with some visual solutions for the slogans and two of them were realized in form of Feliks cards (free promo cards). Here is the first one:
It says "European movie dares to be cheap" and it made it's way to the finale of Magdalena Festival last week. The second one says "European movie dares to ------- the hero" and unfortunately it didn't made it to the finale of Magdalena:
The third one was even less fortunate: not only that it didn't made it into finale, but it was never printed as well ... It says "European movie dares to show MORE":
Euroteka festival began in january and it will end next month, so I guess this is a conclusion of our idea as well.

Čarovnikov vajenec

book cover - designed recently - by me - book is written by Evald Flisar - first published in 1984

Illustration Friday: Save

"Consumerism is self-expression for the uncreative."

Illustration Friday: Homage

I almost forgot that I suggested this topic - thank you Illustration Friday for picking it out:-).

Illustration Friday: Garden

From the hungarian supermarket garden ...

Illustration Friday: Leap

It occurs only every four years, but still it was just the ordinary day ...

Illustration Friday: Multiple

I'm painting these turtles since 1997 - for no particular reason. No. 1 is in Australia - it migrated there with Nadja and her family. 4 and 6 are hanging on the wall of Renata's living room in Slovenia. No. 7 is in my aunt's kitchen in Croatia - it was made for my cousin's 10th birthday. 2, 3, 5 and 8 are standing upon our bookshelf at home. There are at least 20 other turtles here and there - 12 of them went to a traveling exhibition ten years ago and never returned back ...

Illustration Friday: Theory

Have a nice stressless week ;-).

Illustration Friday: Choose

Illustration that I made for Slovenian literary journal Sodobnost (9-10 2006). Article was about an influence of TV on a child's brain. (-: Thanks for stopping by :-)

Slovenian wanderer

Slovenian wanderer -> seven different programs for stimulation of team activities in a company, based on Slovenian tales and legends. I made the main title and other handwritten titles for motivational programs. Design of presentation map is executed by Advertus (which is SW concept developer and program offerer as well). Photo is taken by me and it could be better ...

Illustration Friday: Blanket

"However, once in bed, he felt overcome by a deep sadness. He was the world soccer champion, but what could he do with that? Without the hippityhopsters, everything seemed pointless. In the falling evening light, when Spots was already certain he’d seen the last of them, the faces of the hippityhopsters suddenly glowed above the bedside table. They winked at him happily. “Cool!” he exclaimed. “Are you going to stay with me?” They jumped up and formed the following words in the air: WE WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY!" (From the book Spots becomes a World Champion by Evald Flisar, illustrated by me)

Workshop: Venetian Masks

Center Evropa – Ljubljana team invited me to guide their Venetian Masks workshop. We did the casting ourselves a few days earlier - quite successfully. Participants continued the process by painting and decorating the masks - quite successfully as well. A few glimpses caught on my camera:

This was caught on the Studio Delo's camera (no, I don't feel uneasy in front of it;-).

Illustration Friday: Tales (and Legends)

A king helping a queen to put all those mattresses and feather beds over the pea ...

Illustration Friday: Plain

Just a bug, flying through a Friday evening ...

Hard to squeeze

Zgodbe iz Nepala

Book jacket illustration and design that I made recently. Riksha on the front cover stands as an invitation for a ride through a 23 Nepalese short stories, while a prayer wheel on the back meets the reader at the end. Stories from Nepal are published by Sodobnost International, Ljubljana, as a part of a book series Izmenjave / Exchanges.

. . . Greeting . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Illustrated quote from the Heart of a Buddha booklet . . . . . . . . . .