IlovarStritar
Background
Jernej Stritar and Robert Ilovar graduated at the Department of Design, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. During studies they both received numerous recognitions and awards. Before the IlovarStritar visual communications studio was founded, Robert worked at the renowned GigoDesign studio, Jernej as a freelance designer. Together they established the Dmagazin, a website on design theory.
Awards
The 2010 was exceedingly successful for IlovarStritar. For a visual identity of the 4th Biennial of Slovene Visual Communications they won a bronze Cube at the international competition 89th Art Directors Club, New York. In addition the work for the Biennial won a bronze medal at the European Design Awards competition.
The IlovarStritar tandem is a multiple winner of the world brand design contest Identity: Best of the Best. They won in three categories – a first place in Corporate Identity category, a second place in Brand Architecture category, a second place in Brand Identity (events and projects) category.
The studio was honoured with a great amount of prizes also in 2009. After receiving the prominent Red Dot Communication Design Award for the corporate identity of the Slavic Film Festival, the work received two other distinguished prizes – the gold medal at the eminent Taiwan International Graphic Design Award in category Event Identity, and the Brumen Award at the Biennial of Slovene Visual Communications.
IlovarStritar won another gold medal at the Taiwan International Graphic Design Award in a category Corporate Identity for the visual identity of Neolab. That work received also the "Honourable Mention" at the 4th Biennial of Visual Communication.