Lecture: Zoran Smiljanić, Metka Dariš

September 2nd, 2011

Typography in film credits

6 p.m., Mini teater, Križevniška 1

Film credits might never have existed at all if it weren't for the film workers' union, which indirectly insisted on them. They evolved parallel to the history of film, from utter preises to directors who thought them superfluous and just abolished them. During the 50s and the 60s they got new meaning through the work of Paul Bass, who designed film credits for decades and worked for director Scorsese, among others. Others followed, tyography was brought to life, it fit into the scene or cancelled it out completely. Film lover Zoran Smiljanič and designer Metka Dariš will talk you through this and other milestones of the relation between typography and film.

Participation fee: Free entry

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Zoran Smiljanić does comics, illustration, caricature, design, screenplays and journalism. He published his comics in the 80s and 90s in Slovene and Yugoslav newspapers and magazines: Naprej, Gorenjski Glas, Vidici, Yu-strip magazin, Pavliha, Delo, Problemi, Katedra and Mladina. He designed numerous posters and has been publishing his comics more or less regularly in Mladina magazine since 1987. By now, his work published in Mladina has reached approximately 800 pages. In 1999/2000 most of his comics were published in four seperate comic book albums, amounting to over 600 pages. He also made about 20 magazine covers and numerous other illustrations for Mladina magazine.

Metka Dariš graduated from design at the Visual Communication's department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She has been working with Tomaž Perme, who also has a degree from visual communications, since 1992. They work in the field of visual communications, mainly on cultural and artistic projects. They have many different customers: Petrol, Slovenska kinoteka, Goriška knjižnica, MGL.
She received awards and acknowledgments for her work, including Golden drumsticks at the Golden Drum festival (co-author Tomaž Perme) in 1995, and Piranesi award for the corporate identity of Karst bycicle roads (co-authors Urša Komac, Špela Kuhar and Tomaž Perme) in 1999.