School of design, Belgrade

Republic of Serbia

School of Design, Belgrade

The history of the School of Design in Belgrade is 57 years long. This history consists not only of numerous generations of graduated designers – it also involves all socio-political circumstances of this period.

The School, since the time of its founding in May of 1963, has been making every possible effort to define what profile of young professionals it should educate, in order to meet the needs of contemporary society and economy.

The school is constantly improving the curriculum and working on connecting the field of art with the actual needs of domestic and foreign economy.

Our students, when they graduate, are prepared either to continue their studies or to pursue employment possibilities.

School of Design has five departments:

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Graphic design is a discipline of applied arts, which visually conveys an idea or a message combining calligraphy, typography, illustration, photography and print, for the purpose of informing, educating and marketing.

INTERIOR DESIGN AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT DESIGN
In this department, students learn to develop the artistic and aesthetic sense as well as the ability to comprehend phenomena of shape and space and their relation to functional and ergonomic demands.

PACKAGING DESIGN
The educational process at the Packaging Design department bases on the integration of technological and aesthetic factors. The phenomena of two and three-dimensional, artistic and technical, present the unity in packaging design.

TEXTILE DESIGN
At this department, students are introduced to the complexity and intricacy of both unique and industrial textile design by combining skills of weaving, printing and painting textile with carrying out preliminary textile and clothing designs.

FINE ARTS
The curriculum of this department enables students to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in the field of visual arts, to master art language, techniques and to develop their art identity.

Dragan Marković

Professor / School of Design

Dragan Marković was born in Leskovac on July 10^th 1979. He graduated from Niš Art School in 1998. He graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Painting Department, in 2004, (class of Professor Anđelka Bojović). He has completed his master degree under the mentorship of the same professor in 2007. He has been a member of ULUS (Association of Fine Artists of Serbia) since 2005 and has acquired the status of independent artist in 2009. Dragan has been teaching painting and drawing at School of Design since 2012.

Katarina Jakovljević

Professor / School of Design

Born in 1975 in Belgrade.
Studied at School for Design 1991-1995
Faculty of Fine Art 1995-2001
Specialist academy degree 2005

She had five solo exibitions in Belgrade and 25 group exibitions in Serbia and abroad, among wich group exibition in New York /Ana Tzarev Gallery – Women leaders series. The same series was also presented at The Queen Gallery Bangkok.

Works as a teacher of Drawing , Drawing and Panting at School of Design.
She is also intrested in scene design and scenic painting.

Kristina Ristić

Professor / School of Design

Kristina Ristic was born in Belgrade in 1973. Graduated painting (1995) and obtained

Master of Arts Degree (2000) at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade.

Completed a specialization course in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (2008) in Athens, Greece.

Has been a member of the Association of Fine Arts Artists of Serbia since 1996.

Has had sixteen solo exhibitions and over fifty group exhibitions at home and

abroad. She has received several awards for her work. Her paintings are in the collection of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, in the collection of the Philip Morris – Nis Art Foundation, Matica Srpska and in numerous private and gallery collections.

Has been teaching at the School of Design since 2012.

Milena Ristić

Professor / School of Design

Milena Ristić was born in 1970 in Ivanjica. She graduated from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Department of Textiles, in 1995, and acquired Master’s degree from the same faculty in 2000.

Member of ULUPUDS (The Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia) since 1997.

Professional Development Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Poznan, Poland (April-June 1997).

The scope of the artwork is intermediate research. He has been exhibiting since 1995 at home and abroad.

She has been employed at the Belgrade School of Design as a professor in the fields of Textile Printing and Weaving since 1998.

In July of 2003, as a part of the international manifestation IMAGERE- art fashion in Trieste (Italy), she presented the School of Design (Belgarde) and the author’s project JOURNEY, which she realized with fourth grade students.

She has collaborated with artist Nena Skoko through the independent LUM Artistic Workshop (1995-1998). The artistic collaboration then continued through the independent Punkt Art Experiment Association.

Tijana Dinić

Professor / School of Design

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1971. Studied at Faculty of Applied arts and Design, and graduated Cum Laude from University of Maine at Farmington, Maine, USA.

As a graphic artist, she has been working on many commercial projects for both domestic and foreign clients.

She has been working at the School of Design since 1998, as a teacher of packaging design. Apart from teaching, she has been involved in numerous extracurricular activities with her students – exhibitions, competitions and international student exchanges. As one of the most important school-related activities, she singles out her involvement in organizing, coordinating and realizing of international cooperation and student exchange within the DesignNet project – an international network of art schools, created on the initiative of the School of Design and sponsored by the Central European Initiative (CEI).

She has also been engaged, within the school editorial office, in the graphic design of the multi-award winning magazine Zlatni presek as well as she was involved in designing school monography School of Design – 50 Years.

Vesna Prcović

Professor / School of Design

I was born in 1959 in Trebinje where I completed high school. I graduated from Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of Sociological Studies, with an average grade of 9.

I have been working at the School of Design for 30 years as a teacher. I have taught three subjects: Sociology, Constitution and Citizens’ Rights and Civic Education.

I was the coordinator of the School Parliament, as well as the editor of the School magazine, which was awarded at the national level for its quality content.

I also deal with humanitarian work, organizing exhibitions, as well as exchanging students at the interstate level. I have been successfully running the School of Design for two years.

I actively use computer programs and English language, too.

Milica Rodić

Professor / School of Design

Milica Rodić has been a teacher of professional subjects at the School of Design since 2013. She completed her master’s studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. From the beginning of her work at the School of Design, she had the privilege of working with many talented students and colleagues within extracurricular activities and art workshops. She enjoys working with young people and their education and upbringing. Topics that are of great interest to her are psychological empowerment of young people in the period of growing up and providing adequate support to their development. In her free time, she is engaged in interior design and smaller design solutions in architecture.

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