ABOUT

Aleksandra Nina Knezevic was born in Sarajevo and graduated from the Academy of Art in Cetinje, Montenegro. Her work is fresh and contemporary, and easily communicates an international visual language through playful typography and graphics. Her projects have been awarded in design festivals in Bosnia, Slovenia, Italy and Japan.

 

ADDRESS

Sutjeska 4
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
T. +387 61 275717

LINKS
www.ank-ank.com

 
 

AWARDS

200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2009/10 , Luezer's Archive

COLEGIUM ARTISTICUM 2008
(graphic Designer assotiation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, year award (ULUPUBIH)

Colorado International Invitation Posters Exhibition 2007
Honorable mention

OSAKA BIENNALE /finalist/
Japan Design Foundation

SHIFT Calendar 2004

NO LIMIT 2004 / best poster / (LG electronic, Flatron TV)

NO LIMIT 2005 / best poster / (TheaterFest)

Open AD Award
1. Visual identity for Hairdress Salon

2. Award for Pasta packaging

COLEGIUM ARTISTICUM 1999
(graphic Designer assotiation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, year award (ULUPUBIH)

 

CONFERENCES / PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS

2009
Pecha Kucha Night, Belgrade, Museum of Applied Arts
Art Academy Sarajevo, Sarajevo City symbols presentation

2008
Icograda Design Week, Torino, Italy
Regional Meeting
"Design in BH " presentation

2004
Icograda Regional Meeting, Istanbul, Bilgi University, Turkey
"The state graphic design in Bosnia and Herzegovina" presentation

Icograda Building bridges seminar, Istanbul, Bilgi University, Turkey, presentation of works (ninadesign)

2003
JDF-Japan Design Foundation, Osaka, Japan "Rethink Consumption" - presentation and competition Business Conference Osaka 2003 - participant

2003/04
NO LIMIT Sarajevo, Sarajevo Advertising Festival
Jury of festival

 
 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Hair'em Scare'em, Gestalten book

Luezer's Archive, 200 Best Illustrators World Wide 2009/10

Communication Art magazine

Post Card, book/ Laurence King Publishing /
authors:
Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek at FL@33

La Vie Magazine, My House Publishing Co., Ltd (Taiwan)

ODJEK magazine

Young European Graphic Designers, book

2007 Colorado International Poster Exhibition catalogue

SHIFT magazine

Rene Wanner's Poster Page

Icograda gallery

Font Magazine, USA

ARTLAB magazine, Italy

Mag TYPO, Czech Republic / www.magtypo.cz

"Anatomy of Design" book / authors: Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic
Rockport Publishers - USA

"Dazed&Confused" magazine / (Dazeddigital)

Berliner kunst kontakter

"WorldWide Identity" book / author: Robert L. Peters
Rockport Publishers - USA

Kak Design magazine

Encore magazine No22 / www.magwerk.com

Castle magazine No07 / www.castlemagazine.de

Europe 2020, book / author: Boris Ljubicic

KvadArt magazine

Elle magazine (Slovenia)
January 2005, April 2005, May 2005, August 2005, September 2005, October 2005...

MM magazine / (Media Marketing)

"Design - economic, social and political aspect of form" book /
author: Besim Spahic

 

EXHIBITIONS

2009
Gallery 10m2, What to do with plastic bags?
Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb, Croatia (Design Decade)
Gallery Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Design Decade)

2008
21. International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Poland, 2008 /
Poster Museum Wilanow

Collegium Artisticum 2008

SWAN DAY
A Week of Women Artists of Bosnia & Herzegovina / MAK gallery, Sarajevo, B&H

2007
Colorado International Invitation Posters Exhibition 2007

Gallery "Centar", Centar for Contemporary Art Montenegro

CHARACTERS / gallery 10m2, Sarajevo

"Sarajevo - Redesign of city" / SOSO gallery (Sapporo, Japan)

"No sleep while renewal is on” / Gallery Zero, Berlin
www.zero-project.org

Redesign of city
Solo exhibition on the Festival “Sarajevo Winter” Gallery Unitic, Sarajevo

2006
Pitchwise Festival, Sarajevo

Anti Aids, Ukraina / poster competition

"No sleep while renewal is on" Caffe gallery "Soba", Sarajevo, B&H

POSTERS / British Council B&H, Creative Corner, Sarajevo, B&H

2005
NonCommercial Work / Festival of new art (FONA)
Gallery OK, Rijeka, Croatia

2003
"Rethink consumption" / Osaka Bienniale -
International Design Competition Osaka 2003, Osaka, Japan

Trnava poster Trienale / Slovakia 2003

Magdalena - Festival of visual comunication / Maribor, Slovenia

"Stop violence against women"
Exhibition at St.Thomas University, Canada

2002
Spiritus mundi Post card design exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic

Pixxelpoint - International art / festival of digital media 2002
City gallery Nova Gorica, Maribor, Slovenia

How Europe 2020? / International poster Exhibition
Glypthoteque / Glipoteka - HAZU
Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences - Zagreb, Croatia

How Europe 2020? / Hôtel du Département
Place du Quartier Blanc, Strasbourg, France

1997
Exhibition of small graphic format / Gallery "Graphic Collective",
Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Young Montenegro Art / Dvorac Petrovica,
Centar of Contemporary Art , Podgorica, Montenegro, YU

1996
8th Bienniale of Student Drawing / Gallery "Studentski grad",
Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Annual Exhibition of ULUPUBIH / gallery Collegium Artisticum
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina