Annual poetry collection published by the festival, 2019.
Goranovo proljeće (en. Goran’s Spring) is the oldest and most influential Croatian poetry festival, as well as one of the oldest poetry festivals in Europe, taking place annually since 1963. It’s named after Ivan Goran Kovačić, a poet and partisan fighter killed by the fascists in WWII.
2019.
My first attempt at visualising the sensation of reading poetry.
2022.
A schematic drawing of a poem: it’s made up of a main thread that spills out into metaphores, sub-naratives, ideas, verbal images…
I started collaborating on Goranovo Proljeće with the designers Tina Ivezić and Damir Prizmić in 2019. So far the collab has resulted with six illustrations for the festival’s promo materials and annual poetry collection book cover.
2020.
A visual representation of metaphors as they directly refer to one thing by mentioning another.
Each year I read the featured poems and try to translate them into my visual language.
I start by forming an idea that I then develop into illustrated elements which are used on the promo materials. The elements also make up a pattern for the annual poetry collection book cover.
2021.
The world and the festival audience slowly poking out their noses after lockdown to experience poetry and life through their analogue and digital windows.