Asim Đelilović was born in Vitez in 1964. He graduated in 1991, and received his master’s degree in 2004 in the class of prof. Zlatko Ugljen at the Product Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.

At the Academy of Fine Arts, he was engaged in the Department of Product Design: – as an assistant (1999), – senior assistant (2004), – assistant professor (2009). – associate professor (2014).

He was elected to the position of full professor in the subjects Drawing 1 and 2, Design Drawing 1-4, and Presentation Drawing in January 2020.

He was the head of the Product Design Department in the 2014/15. In the period from June 2006 to October 2010, he served as the president of the artistic council of ULUPUBIH (Association of Fine Artists of Applied Arts and Designers of Bosnia and Herzegovina) – a professional association that gathers designers and applied artists from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

He was a member of the jury for the awarding of professional awards (Collegium artisticum 2019 – for the field of design), a member of the program committee of several professional events (Sarajevo Green Design Festival 2009/2010, SarajevoOFuture 2019) and a reviewer (ICOMOS 2019).

He is the winner of several Collegium artisticum awards in the field of graphic design, as well as the Grand Prix Collegium artisticum award for 2005.

In his pedagogical work, he also achieved international cooperation with the universities in Vienna – Akademie für Kunstangevante, class of Paolo Piva and Borek Sipek (2001), and the university in Ljubljana – Faculty of Architecture, subject led by Assoc. Dr. Peter Marolt (2003, 2010), and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, subjects Drawing and Plastic Design (doc. Ana Martina Bakić, 2017).

He is a member of the Consultative Committee of the international art platform Tabularasa Transnational Art based in Istanbul, which gathers over 40 artists from 27 countries

( http://tabularasa-art.com/consultative comitee ).

His artistic work is public and available at the web address: ( www.asimartworks.com).

He is the founder of the Museum in Exile (www.museuminexile.com) – a platform for documenting and promoting design in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015.

He has published several books, including: Design drawing and artistic interpretations, Mas media Sarajevo, 2013 (first edition); and the second updated edition of the same book in September 2020 (https://issuu.com/asimdjelilovic/docs/dizajnerskicrtez2020), as well as, Design drawing in a digital environment, Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, eBook (https://issuu.com/asimdjelilovic/docs/asim_digitalno_-_2019), 2019.

As a curator, he organized the exhibition of works by Milton Glaser from the collection of the Museum in Exile at the BiH Art Gallery in Sarajevo (February 5-29, 2020), as well as the exhibition of Čedomir Kostović (October 6-29, 2022).

His work was included in the book: Liz McQuiston, Protest! – A History of Social and Political Protest Graphic, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2019.

The works of this author can be found in the collections of: Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, Zavičajni muzej Travnik, Museo Sperimentale d’Arte Contemporanea (MU.SP.A.C) L’Aquila (Italy), and private collections in Europe (Austria, Slovenia, Serbia , Turkey), the United States of America and Japan.

Prof. SRDJA HRISAFOVIC DIA; MBS.
Academy of Fine Arts, Obala Maka Dizdara 3, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina        + 387 61 892 315 s.hrisafovic@alu.unsa.ba; www.alu.unsa.ba

SUMMARY PROFILE 2023:
Over 30 years of experience working as an architect, lighting designer, teaching and applied research.

Authored/co-authored over 40 architectural and lighting design projects published over 30 peer-reviewed publications; articles, chapters and conference papers. Advising local government on matters of lighting and environment policy. Teaching lighting and design at number of universities thought Europe, USA and New Zealand.

SPECIAL EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH:
       Architectural lighting; Design With Light and Design With the Sun

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
1993 Master of Building Science (MBS),
       The School of Architecture, Building science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
       LIGHT IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
1987 Diploma in Architecture (DIA),
       Academy of Fine Arts, Building science, Copenhagen, Denmark
       DAY LIGHT AND PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN
1980 Graduate Engineer of Architecture (Dipl. Ing. Arch.)
       The Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Sarajevo, BiH

CURRENT POSITIONS:
Vice dean:                                 Academy Of Fine Arts Sarajevo;
Professor:                                 Product Design; Academy Of Fine Arts Sarajevo;
Architect; Lighting Designer: Studio Lightartpro, Sarajevo https://www.lightartpro.com/portfolio

Expert:                                       Light in Design
CURRENT TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Designing With Light; Materials and Productions, Sustainable Design

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Lighting Design: Energy efficiency and light pollution in architectural lighting
                             Urban illumination for smart city technologies

Rođena u Cazinu (Bosna i Hercegovina). Studij produkt dizajna i postdiplomski studij završila na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti u Sarajevu. Diplomirala u klasi profesora Zdenka Praskača 1999.g. Magistarski rad na temu „Dizajn namještaja- Fleksibilnost u stanovanju, fragmenti preostale slobode“ odbranila 2008. g. pod mentorstvom prof. Zlatka Ugljena i prof.dr. Fehima Hadžimuhamedovića.

Od oktobra 1999.g. zaposlena na Akademiji likovnih umjetnosti, kao asistent, na predmetima Industrijsko oblikovanje, Unikatno oblikovanje i Teorija prostora. U periodu od 1999.g. do 2003.g. radi kao asistent na sva tri predmeta. Od oktobra 2003.g. radi kao asistent na predmetu Industrijsko oblikovanje. Na istom predmetu je izabrana u zvanje višeg asistenta, docenta i 2016.g. u zvanje vanrednog profesora. U periodu od 2011. do 2013.g. obavljala je dužnost šefa Odsjeka za produkt dizajn.

Autor je Udžbenika za likovnu kulturu od I- IV razreda osnovne škole, te Udžbenika za likovnu kulturu od I-V razreda devetogodišnje osnovne škole i Udžbenika za likovnu kulturu za IX razred devetogodišnje osnovne škole, zvanično odobrenih od Federalnog ministarstva obrazovanja i nauke za upotrebu u školama u Bosni i Hercegovini. Radove izlagala na brojnim međunarodnim selektivnim izložbama dizajna.

Značajnije izložbe:
2015 Izložba dizajnerskih projekata za firmu Rukotvorine/Zanat, Imm Cologne – Pure Village, Imm Cologne 19-25.01.2015
2013 The Next Wave: Industrial Design Innovation in the 21st Century, Washington DC, izložba dizajnerskih projekata
2012 ICFF New York 2012, Manulution, Izložba dizajnerskih projekata za Rukotvorine/Manulution, New York, U.S.A.
2012 Pure Village, IMM Cologne, Izložba dizajnerskih projekata za Rukotvorine/Manulution, Koeln, Njemačka
2012 Boulevard of Innovations, izložba dobitnika Interior Innovation Award 2012, IMM Cologne, Koeln, Njemačka
2011 COULEUR LOCALE – The Colours Of Europe In Objects, Identitet evropskih zemalja predstavljen kroz dizajnerske projekte, Budapest DesignWeek, Budimpešta, Mađarska
2011 ICFF New York 2011, Manulution, Izložba dizajnerskih projekata za Rukotvorine/Manulution, New York, U.S.A.
2011 BiH paviljon, IMM Cologne 2011, Izložba dizajnerskih projekata za Rukotvorine/Manulution, Konjic i Arteco, Tešanj
2007 Jasna Mujkić, Field Armchaire, Salone Satellite 2007, Samostalno predstavljanje dizajnera na Međunarodnom sajmu namještaja u Milanu, avangardni salon za mlade dizajnere

Dobitnik je međunarodne nagrade „Interior Innovation Award – IMM 2012“, Koeln, Njemačka.

Nataša Perković is a product designer from Sarajevo. She holds a graduate and a postgraduate degree from the Department of Product Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, where she teaches Artistic Design, a class founded by Academician and Professor Emeritus Zlatko Ugljen and led by Professor Emerita Ognjenka Finci.

She took her first professional steps at The Partners in London and at Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy. She has collaborated with the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design in London. She worked as a design associate at Kyoto Institute of Technology D-Lab.

Through her design practice, Studio Nataša Perković, she collaborates with manufacturers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. She has exhibited extensively and globally.

Among awards Nataša’s products have received are Red Dot Design Award, D&AD Best New Blood, Imm Cologne ICONIC Interior Innovation Award, German Design Award Special Mention, Grand Prix Collegium Artisticum, Belgrade Furniture Fair Golden Key, BIG SEE Grand Prix for Product Design, as well as the Balkan Architectural Biennale Grand Prix for Furniture Design.

She aims to develop products of high aesthetic value and to produce then in an innovative and sustainable way. She nurtures a restrained aesthetic that is not a subject to changing trends, in the hope that people will enjoy her products for many years. Elle, a collection of dining room furniture Nataša Perković developed for GoEs (former MS & Wood) is the most highly awarded designer product in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Portrait: Haris Adžem