The jury of the contest for designing visual identity and slogan for the Croatian presidency over the EU Council in 2020 has selected the winner of the competition. The jury consisting of: Damir Bralić, Antti Hinkula, Jan Pavlović, Nevena Tudor Perković, Zvonimir Frka Petešić, Katja Šare i Jakov Vilović awarded the work titled Typographic Chessboard as the best visual identity. This project was done by Iva Primorac, Design Studio student, under mentorship of Stipe Brčić and commentary by Marija Juza.
A total of 26 works were submitted to the contest that was managed by the Croatian Designers’ Association. Works were submitted by five invited teams, selected through public invitation procedure, a team of students from Design Studio and the University Sjever, as well as nine other authors / teams.
Members of the Jury reviewed all the received works and made a decision on awarding a prize for visual identity.
First place and award of HRK 33.000 went to the work #04:
Concept title: Tipografska šahovnica (typographic chessboard)
Authors: Iva Primorac (Design student), mentor: Stipe Brčić, commentator: Marija Juza
Second place and award of HRK 22.000 went to #18:
Concept title: Povezivanje partnerske Europe (Connecting Europe in Partnership)
Authors: Srnsus Design Factory (Nedjeljko Špoljar, Kristina Špoljar)
Third place and award of HRK 11.000 went to #23:
Concept title: Crven – plav (Red-blue)
Authors: Superstudio (design of visual identity: Iva Hrvatin and Ira Payer / assistant: Sara Pavleković Preis / copywriter: Rebbeca Mikulandra)
All the invited teams who haven’t been rewarded will get compensations of almost €1000 per every work they entered, regardless of their number.
The presiding countries of the Council of the European Union show the visual identity of their presidency just before they take over the presidency. The Croatian visual identity of the Presidency of the EU Council will be publicly announced by the decision of the competent authorities immediately before the presidency at the end of 2019, and until then it will not be made publicly available or otherwise made available to the public. Namely, among the EU Member States, there is unwritten rule that the publication of the visual identity of the country’s future chairmanship shouldn’t be done too early, in order not to overshadow the visual identity of the country that is currently presiding.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs of Croatia, the Ministry of Culture of Croatia and the HDD congratulate the awarded teams and thank all contestants on the submitted solutions.
