HISTORICAL-MEDICAL GUIDE TO RIJEKA

As much as we think we know our city, we always end up surprised how layered its history really is. It was such a delight discovering a historical-medical side of Rijeka, and an even greater one designing such a city guide. While creating A short & unpretentious historical-medical guide to Rijeka, we had to bring together three different types of content: the narrative, the city guide (maps) and the photographs. A great source of inspiration were old m...

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MAMUTI EDGEWEAR

Mammoths may be extinct but their name lives on, and this time representing a very bold clothing brand that is essentially a wearable provocation. You can state your mind with a shirt, cap or pencil case, and the minimalistic design allows the messages to really speak volumes. The edgy messages and the whole concept originated from the brand owner and we contributed with the visual identity, website text and collaborated with Grgas Web Studio on web d...

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JUŠTO CHOCOLATE BARS - ZAGREB

In the beginning there was Kredenca - a shop with authentic Croatian products. Then Kredenca started its own brand Jušto (more about that soon), and Jušto launched its souvenir chocolate bar Zagreb. Well, actually, before it could be launched, it had to be designed. And that’s where we came in, together with Lana Hudina - Duckass who did illustrations of Zagreb. We aimed for modern tradition and eye-pleasing recognizability (yes, this is a proper word). Th...

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LIPA REMEMBERS - ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION

One of our projects for Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers was a publication for 75th anniversary of the massacre in Lipa. For 75 years Lipa has been remembering the slaughter, remembering the destruction, remembering the loss. And even this collective memory has its own history. The book depicts what it is that Lipa remembers and in what way. The publication is stripped of fancy covers with visible stitches and the colours are brought down to a bare minimum -...

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Campsite Lighthouse

We still remember the times when if you wanted to buy something to remember your trip/vacation by - it would be a postcard. It was before selfies, and even before fridge magnets. With that dear memory of postcards and stamps lingering in our minds, we created a visual identity for Campsite Lighthouse in Savudrija - a place made for wonderful memories and unforgettable moments of freedom and unwinding. Since this sea camp has a lighthouse as its first neigh...

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Korak po korak

Open Academy Step by Step is on a mission to introduce and support practices that ensure the wellbeing of all children and lead to a child-friendly society. It’s not an easy feat but taking one step at a time, things can change. So we too started with the basics - circle, triangle and square - and added some color. With these essentials, step by step, we created visual identity, website, and numerous material and publications for Step by step. Since they p...

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LJPB

When the brief says: “it’s not about the age, it’s about silliness” and “totally off” - then we know we can make some bold design decisions. So we embraced black as the summer color, we got really carried away while constructing letters and we encouraged using very challenging acronym LJPB. And LJPB stands for “Ljetna priča iz Benčića” - a summer festival organized by Rijeka City Library, American Corner and local museums and theatre. And what kind of fest...

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Rijeka City Days 2024

Summer! Good company! A buzz of excitement! Sport! Music! Shows! Good vibrations! These are all perfect descriptions of Rijeka City Days (a.k.a. Dani svetoga Vida). The numerous events take place all over the city and it truly is an urban festival. With that in mind, we created letters which are constructed out of Rijeka’s urban elements - water, architecture, industrial heritage, steps, cranes, skyscrapers, sailboats, a castle, etc. In the background - or...

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Rosemary

Rosemary was one of those wonderful cases where you get to create a new brand from scratch - name, visual identity, print materials, social networks, signage, display window, etc. We unleashed all our feminine energy and got down to work. Since the brand is all about natural, organic and/or clean cosmetics, it should look the part. Such cosmetics focuses on ingredient transparency so we used commas and lists throughout the identity. Look, visit, try, enjoy...

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Riperaj

KD Čistoća launched Riperaj, and that launched another lovely collaboration with Lea and Mirna from Kombinat. This epic collab took place in ancient 2019, but we still think of it often.  In short, Riperaj is the first repair center in Croatia and its aim is to reduce waste by repairing old, unused and broken items. At Riperaj you can find various tools, spare parts, a helping hand and an expert advice, but the idea is to do the work yourself. So i...

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Cipmann self-promotion

For Cipmann’s first birthday (which coincides with New Year) we unintentionally started a trend of sending out silly little gifts. In the beginning there was Pucko (Snappy) - a multifunctional bubble wrap, while some other incarnations include coasters that suggest which days to take off (to make the most of the year) and a paper cap when you’re up to your ears in troubles. All in all, once a year our dear partners receive our turquoise-packaged silliness ...

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Ekoplus

To do a research about trash doesn’t sound so appealing at first, but it was fun. Getting to know Ekoplus and their waste management centre, we realized it is a modern and neatly structured industry. They demystified what they do and showed us various processes that take place in their facilities. These processes transform the waste into different things - fuel, water, metal, etc. - but most of all - energy. Black linear pattern represents the waste tha...

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RIJEKA CITY LIBRARY SIGNAGE

New year, new visual identity, new building, new signage. What a combination! To see how visual identity takes stage in signage and wayfinding system always makes us tear up with joy. And when the brief defined the library as “serious thoughts in an amusing way” we saw the opportunity for the unexpected details. In the surroundings of colourful books and diverse materials, black or white signs were an obvious choice, and the asterisk became an important an...

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RIJEKA CITY LIBRARY - ID

We can be pretty stubborn sometimes. But this time, it was for greater good. At least we like to think so. Rijeka City Library approached us for signage design in their new, marvellous building. Even though they kept denying they need a new visual identity, we couldn’t help ourselves and presented them with our vision. Long story short, Rijeka City Library has a new visual identity. The new building meant the new era in which the library literally creates ...

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LIPA REMEMBERS - GENEALOGY EXHIBITION

Each project we do for Memorial centre in Lipa is a very emotional one and this one was no exception. When preparing the genealogy exhibition of all the families in Lipa, first we were welcomed by a great amount of data. So we organized it, edited it graphically and displayed in a way that communicated just how many of those family trees lost their branches or even the whole trees on April 30, 1944. The trees are organized according to house numbers and al...

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ČISTOĆA - A COMPANY MONOGRAPH

We just love anniversaries. When in that celebratory mode, clients tend to be open to something a bit more special. For utility company Čistoća’s 70th anniversary we created an anniversary logo and a company monograph. Due to the volume and diversity of content for the book, we developed a set of graphic elements which we used to create infographics, to break large amounts of text, to emphasise specific content, and - wherever we could - we presented the n...

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Elcon signage

Elcon is one of our first clients and we’ve done all sorts of design projects for them, but signage holds special place in our hearts, and our portfolio. The project was huge, but once again we realised that with well set basis (i. e. visual identity) everything is easier. Not easy, but easier. Elcon required signage for its industrial complex both inside and outside, as well as underground garage. The signs would need to adapt to different materials, surr...

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PBM

It is not often that you get the opportunity to design labels for olive oil and brandy in the same product line. So when such inquiry landed on our plate, we couldn’t curb our enthusiasm. The company PBM prepared a very refreshing set for their loyal partners - a bottle of homemade olive oil and a bottle of homemade brandy. Besides play on letters  inspired by the acronym from the company’s name (in Croatian), the labels emphasize the origin of these ...

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Lungomare Art

Sometimes - not nearly enough - we do collaborations on design projects. For Lungomare Art we really enjoyed co-creating with design studio Mikser and sculptor Tomica Grubiša. In short, Lungomare Art, created as part of Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture, is a cultural and tourist route along which art meets people. As a part of the project, 9 works of art have been planned in 9 locations along the Kvarner coast. The visual identity reflects these ...

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Marinski Heartmades

There’s nothing we love more than when we get to design stuff for something we love, admire and use outside of work. That’s exactly what happened with Marinski Heartmades ceramics. We designed its previous visual identity, but when Marinski ceramics pivoted from playful dreaminess towards elegant-slash-feminine dreaminess, it was time for a remake. Along with redesign, we did all sorts of copywriting, print materials, catalogue,… Each piece is a small, uni...

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Robotics camp

Professionals in our line of work normally don’t run across robots (except when putting away toys at home), so we were happy as little kids when we got to “take one apart” to create visuals for Robotics Camp. Thank you StepRi for the opportunity! We reassembled it to create different posters, T-shirt and some digital announcements - never with the same parts. ...

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Lipa Remembers guidebook

This guidebook was the first project we did for Memorial centre in Lipa, still unaware what we were getting ourselves into - and we got ourselves into the story so emotional and full of life among so much death. It was astonishing to see how the war tragedy made people of this small town so connected (although, Lipa is anything but small). And the town and its story got under our skin.  This museum guidebook could be called a picture book for adult...

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Bibliobus

When we put our minds together - as well as our hands - all is possible. Even pushing the big library bus! We fondly remember sitting in a pub with our creative friends from Kombinat, Molekula, Studio Artlan and Manufaktura and deciding to collaborate on a project that will be good for the community. Very soon the choice was made - we will help the Rijeka City Library with its campaign to get funding for the new mobile library. The goal was very clear and ...

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Holcim

How to say “Buy local” in a fresher, more interesting way? That was the question that people from Holcim asked when they approached us for the T-shirt design that would promote buying local cement. After considerable brain activity, a series of T-shirt designs was created with well known Croatian phenomena. Printed messages are based on the characteristics of cement and linked verbally with some local sayings in quite an unexpected way. ...

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Crikvenica

Crikvenica’s history and culture appear to be some of the best kept secrets in Kvarner, so we wanted to tell its story to the present and future visitors of this small city. Although tourists visit Crikvenica mostly to enjoy the sun, sea and beaches, the town was once a fisherman’s village. It also has a very interesting gastronomic history and nowhere else can you spend the night at an ex-monastery. We illustrated the story of Crikvenica, and those who li...

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Elcon Geraetebau

Elcon Geraetebau is the leading CNC manufacturers of high-precision parts in SE Europe and that is precisely why we created the slogan “Measure of precision”. Elcon Geraetebau is Cipmann’s greatest project in terms of diversity of materials created for them. Our primary task was to redesign their identity in the direction of modern and strong company on the global market. We achieved visibility with a very recognizable shade of green, and the logotype is c...

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Misho & Robin

Moms being moms, we love to create content for our kids. So when the guys from animation studio Recircle approached us and asked if we would work on the scripts for animated kids TV series Misho & Robin, there was no doubt in our minds. It was a chance to create content for all kids, not only ours. In 30-ish 5-minute episodes we took Misho the cat, Robin the robin and their quirky gang all over the place - over the hills, forests, sea and creeks where ...

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Peek+Poke

Designing for the museum of childhood sounds like a dream project. And it was. While we were admiring toys and games of our past, we felt like riding a time machine. So it was only natural to choose the time machine as the concept of the Peek+Poke’s visual identity. That’s why the name of the museum became a colorful time traveling machine and its winding key a recognizable symbol that can be used on its own. Museum’s physical space is divided into section...

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3 kantuna

We have renamed “Megi” - a studio for interior design - to “3 kantuna” (or “3 corners”) since it is run by a woman who takes care of all 3 aspects of the interior: the structure, the furniture and the details. In other words, from knocking down walls to choosing tiles and sewing throw pillows. Since 3 kantuna adapts to different types of space, we have created modular visual identity that adapts to every context. Visual elements are black lines borrowed...

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Euroway

A small language school from the small town of Kastav approached us with a great wish for visual identity redesign. Line by line, color by color, redesign soon became a completely new design which reflected warmth and Euroway’s unique family atmosphere much better than the previous design. Since the school spices up the classes with various customs and interesting rituals such as drinking afternoon tea or Easter egg hunts, the identity was based on the mot...

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Pucko

We celebrated Cipmann’s first birthday - which conveniently coincided with New Year’s holidays - by sending our clients and partners small but loud self-promotion thingie. Snappy was a self-created product which was basically a piece bubble wrap with some practical usage suggestions. It offered 3-in-1 functionality: protection from falling apart, stress relief and killing time. In a snap, we were out of bubbles, and Snappy started a tradition of Cipmann’s ...

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Drugi par rukava

Thrilled by Rijeka’s history and disappointed with how little people know about it, we decided to bring Rijeka’s stories closer to city’s youngsters. And we did it in collaboration with Kantoon shop. Since a good story goes a long way, we depicted Rijeka’s history through illustrated stories on T-shirts which immediately draw attention. They combine visual and textual, while design always keeps some historical element adapted to modern visual language.&nbs...

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Škulić

What do two Cipmannettes say in a turning workshop? “ Wooow, what a great-looking machine/contraption/tool/...!” Fascinated by the space, details and the filth, we started working on the visual identity. Of course, it all needs to look very professional, but we still wanted to keep it real so we used the photocopy element found in all the blueprints and applied it to the printed materials. Logotype combines a tool and material from the workshop, communicat...

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Kantoon shop

How to encourage spreading the word about a really cool shop? Easy! By detachable business cards. A sheet of colorful business cards hung in the shop and invited shoppers to tear one for themselves (after they first studied all color combinations and chose their favorite one). It kept customers shopping longer than expected, and talking to the lovely shopkeeper made the atmosphere even more pleasant. And then shopping for things became shopping for ideas…&...

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Mediterra

Mmmmm, honey! We all love to have our trusty homemade products dealer, and when you get the chance to create the name and visual identity for that favorite product, it’s a sweet sweet project. Name “Mediterra” combines Croatian word for honey (med) and Latin word for land (terra), and refers to the geographical origin of the honey: Mediterranean. Since all Mediterra’s products revolve around bees, we put the bee in the center and created a sort of “Vitruvi...

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Bela nedeja

How to communicate such a versatile event as the festival of wine, old crafts, handmades, culture, literature, music, souvenirs, art, dance, etc.? Well, to include all these elements into the design, of course! Sounds busy, but so is the festival. The visuals for each annual edition of Bela nedeja are based on many illustrations symbolizing different aspects of the event. Over the years, we added color, but the visual language remained recognizable and tru...

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