This summer yugo.logo team (oran.design & radnja) designed and curated new exhibition
"Graphic Identification in Yugoslavia"
Organized by HKD na Susaku the exhibition was showcased in Galerija Kortil in Rijeka, Croatia.
It was on display from 27.06.-20.09.2025.
Exhibition includes :
- 630 graphic marks, symbols and logotypes made from 1945-1992.
- Special hall of fame section with more than 10 important regional designers
- Items and objects from Yugoslavia
- "Rijeka wall" with selected posters of local companies from various industries
Before the opening, a panel discussion "Conversation about the Mark" was held.
An non-formal discussion about cultural and industrial heritage of Yugoslavia, through the prism of graphic design and more specifically graphic identification/communication.
Photos by Tanja Kanazir
about the 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.