Vladimír Yurkovic

Profile

Vladimir Yurkovic was born on 8th of Fabruary 1964 in Bratislava. In 1988 he graduated interdisciplinary study of industrial design at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava by professors M. Suchára and J. Vávra. After graduating he began working as a designer for company Chirana in Stará Turá. After 1989 he moved onto freelance profession and started working as a graphic designer. In 1991 he founded the Studio September Ltd., where he focused on graphic design work as Art Director until the end of 2008, when he entered into specific routing and founded a graphic design company YurkovicDesign Ltd.

Work

In the period of 1996-2005 he created identity and design for variety of products the company StandAudio. In addition to these activities, he devoted whole his life to photography. Since 2002, runs its own photo studio in Bratislava on Tomášikova Street.

In his artistic creation he is devoted to subjective document, portrait, commercial and fine art photography. Since 2002, systematically he is working on the project Men After Work – portraits of people taken immediately after work. In 1997 he won the National Prize for Design, let us mention the other awards as Gold and Silver stick in Portorož in 1998. In 1998 and 1999 he was the finalist and winner of the London International Advertising Awards, three times scored with the most beautiful book of Slovakia and also he acquired a number of other awards. He is a secretary of GDC-Grafic Designers Club of Slovakia.

Exhibitions

2006
  • Men after Work – musicians, Malacky
  • Men after Work – Musicians, Apollo Business Center, Bratislava
  • Men After Work – Slovak tour, with support from the Ministry of Culture in the cities of Bratislava, Košice, Nitra, Prešov, Trnava and Banská Bystrica
2008
  • Men after Work – Musicians_2, Apollo Business Center, Bratislava
  • Vladimir Yurkovic | Divadlo bez kulis, DBK, Praha
2009
  • Vladimir Yurkovic | Divadlo bez kulis_2, DBK, Praha
2012
  • Vladimir Yurkovic | men after work | musicians, SI Moskva
  • Vladimir Yurkovic | men after work | musicians, Rostov na Done
2013
  • Vladimir Yurkovic | men after work | musicians, NGVK Niznyj Novgorod
  • Vladimir Yurkovic | Men after work | Musicians, Stroganovka Academy of Arts, Moscow

Awards

1995
  • Golden Drum New Europe | finalist
1997
  • National Prize for design
1998
  • Golden Drum New Europe | Golden drumstick
  • Golden Drum New Europe | Silber drumstick
  • London International Advertising Awards ‘98 | winner | calendars
1999
  • London International Advertising Awards ‘99 | finalist | annuals
  • London International Advertising Awards ‘99 | finalist | corporate identity
2000
  • The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia | Struhár-Piatko, Slovakia, verse in the poem Europe
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 2nd place | annual (99) for SZRB
2001
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 3rd place | annual (00) for SZRB
2002
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 1st place | annual (01) for SZRB
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 3rd place | annual (01) for PSS
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 1st place | electronic version of annual (01) for SZRB
2003
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 1st place | annual (02) for PSS
2004
  • The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia | L.Struhár, Bratislava
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 3rd place | annual (03) for PSS
2005
  • Best annual report (Trend) | 2nd place | annual (04) for Orange
  • Gold Pack 2005 | Obal roku (Czech Republic) | luxusné víno – Grafobal, a.s.
  • Worldstar Award for Packaging Excelence | luxusné víno – Grafobal, a.s.
2006
  • The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia | V. Godár – Mater
2010
  • Gold Pack | Obal na luxusné pralinky ILLUI – Grafobal, a.s.
  • Worldstar Award for Packaging Excelence | pralinky ILLUI – Grafobal, a.s.

Vladimír Yurkovic

Vladimir Yurkovic was born on 8th of Fabruary 1964 in Bratislava. In 1988 he graduated interdisciplinary study of industrial design at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava by professors M. Suchára and J. Vávra. After graduating he began working as a designer for company Chirana in Stará Turá. After 1989 he moved onto freelance profession and started working as a graphic designer. In 1991 he founded the Studio September Ltd., where he focused on graphic design work as Art Director until the end of 2008, when he entered into specific routing and founded a graphic design company YurkovicDesign Ltd.

Work

In the period of 1996-2005 he created identity and design for variety of products the company StandAudio. In addition to these activities, he devoted whole his life to photography. Since 2002, runs its own photo studio in Bratislava on Tomášikova Street.

In his artistic creation he is devoted to subjective document, portrait, commercial and fine art photography. Since 2002, systematically he is working on the project Men After Work – portraits of people taken immediately after work. In 1997 he won the National Prize for Design, let us mention the other awards as Gold and Silver stick in Portorož in 1998. In 1998 and 1999 he was the finalist and winner of the London International Advertising Awards, three times scored with the most beautiful book of Slovakia and also he acquired a number of other awards. He is a secretary of GDC-Grafic Designers Club of Slovakia.

Vladimír Yurkovic’s Gallery