From Identity to Form: Authorship and recognition

How a personal vision can exist, survive, and evolve inside institutions, magazines, social media and collaborative systems

As an Art Director who built authorship inside large editorial structures, I investigate the relationship between inner identity and outer form.
Through editorial design and art direction, internal states are translated into visual and material expression.
Art directors are editors of identity; so are we in our own lives.

Art Direction

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Autorship

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Identity

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Recognition

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Art Direction ✳︎ Autorship ✳︎ Identity ✳︎ Recognition ✳︎

Personal identity is another dimension of authorship because it, like editorial work, is constructed through intentional choices, consistent practice, and coherent expression over time — making your inner voice visible in the world.

This talk examines the role of the art director as an author, focusing on how inner identity is translated into visual and editorial form. Drawing from professional experience in leading international magazines and independent publishing,  the talk reflects on how clarity, restraint, and coherence shape recognition, and why form should be understood as a consequence of meaning rather than decoration.


Past Talks

November 2025 - Be.Come, Naples (ITA) - “We Are the New Generations: Independent Publishing, Institutional Media and Digital Voices”

September 2025 - Weekend Media Festival, Rovinj (CRO) - “Papir je ipak papir: nišni magazini kao renesansa printa”

December 2024 - In conversation: salotto Italiano, Zagreb (CRO) - “Independent magazines”

Guest speaker to different universities since 2016: Vern (ZG), TTF Zagreb (ZG), Profokus (ZG), IED Milano (ITA), Naba Milano (ITA), The School of Fashion Shanghai (CHN)

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