yugo.logo project
yugo.logo is a research project dedicated to find and preserve graphic symbols made in Ex-Yugoslavia.
Project was initiated in 2019. by Belgrade based graphic designer Ognjen Ranković aka oran.design.
The basic starting point of the project lies in the fact that most of these graphic symbols, created more than half a century ago, are considered extremely high quality solutions and up to modern standards. Their influence on today’s (local) design, but also on the establishment of collective aesthetic criteria, is by no means negligible, which makes the topic of the whole research – albeit seemingly archaic – very up-to-date.
After the break-up of Yugoslavia* most of the archives and industrial heritage was lost, left in despair, destroyed or forgotten… yugo.logo aims to collect and save as many symbols and other design work “made in Yugoslavia”.
*Yugoslavia (1918-1992) = Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia – population cca 20mil.
yugo.logo exhibitions
In 2023 and 2024. numerous exhibitions were held across the region:
Croatia (Zagreb, Pula, Rijeka), N.Macedonia (Bitola, Skopje), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bihac, Prijedor, Sarajevo, Mostar) and Montenegro (Herceg Novi).
Scope of work: Design Research | Exhibition Design | Exhibition Curation | Spatial Design | Print Design
Zagreb, Croatia, HDD Galerija
11.05. - 02.06.2023.
Photos by - Monika Džakić
Bitola, N.Macedonia, EU House Bitola
04.09. - 21.09.2023.
Exhibition opened by Kostadin Tančev Dinka who is one of the greatest designers coming from North Macedonia.
Skopje, N.Macedonia, EU House Skopje
19.12.. - 29.12.2023.
Pula, Croatia, HUiU Galerija
25.01. - 21.02.2024.
Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Galerija Sreten Stojanović
24.07. - 31.07.2024.
Herceg Novi, Montenegro, Titova Vila Galeb
Opened 15.09.2024.
First permanent exhibition.
