Brumen Award for the Image of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
MGLC Archive.
The International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) received the Brumen Award at the awards ceremony of the 9th Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design on 22 October 2019. The International Jury awarded the commission and design team for the image of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts Crack Up – Crack Down. The author of the image of the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts is Nejc Prah with his design team.
The Brumen Awards are the highest professional design awards at the national level. They are awarded by the Brumen Foundation, an organisation that has been working for 16 years to promote high-quality visual communication and raise public awareness of its importance.
Justification of the jury for the Brumen Award:
“A superbly made example of postmodernist design with a clear original voice. The set of basic motifs is used with humour – the recognisable illustrations and playful use of lettering elements combine in the exciting festival image.”
List of Brumen Award winners:
The 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts
Client: International Centre of Graphic Arts
Klemen Ilovar, photography, Ansambel
Nejc Prah, project management, Ansambel
Dan Adlešič, production of 3D hedgehogs, Ansambel
Nejc Prah, design, Ansambel
From Prah’s project description:
“The theme of the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts was satire. Spikes, stings and pricks play an important role in how we talk about satire. One of the Slovenian words for a joke, if that joke is aimed at someone, is zbadljivka. It comes from the verb zbosti, which means to prick someone. The names of the early 20th century satirical newspapers in Slovenia include Osa (Wasp), Bodeča neža (Silver Thistle), Jež (Hedgehog), Rogač (Stag Beetle) … They were all named after animals or plants that prick, sting or bite. A combination of whimsical hedgehogs was paired with photos of spikes and thorns. The goal was to show both the humorous aspects of satire, as well as its more serious and often political undertones.”