Emzin Institute of Creative Production

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Emzin, zavod za kreativno produkcijo

Metelkova 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana

emzin@guest.arnes.si

Phone386 (0) 1 430 3544, 386 (0) 41 685067

Emzin, the cultural NGO of creative production, is a non-profit organisation (zavod) that is active in the field of visual arts and publishing. Since 1990 the institute has published Emzin Arts Magazine, dedicated to the promotion of art and culture with particular emphasis on graphic design and photography. Since 1997 Emzin has organised educational seminars on graphic design and photography involving acknowledged Slovene and international lecturers.

Recently the Institute hosted the legendary American graphic designer Milton Glaser, author of the logo I ♥ NY who presented his book Drawing is Thinking [Risanje je mišljenje] and featured the exhibition in the Vžigalica Gallery. The Institute hosted also Stefan Sagmeister (New York), Oliviero Toscani (Pisa), Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast (New York), Jonathan Barnbrook, Rick Poynor and David Ellis (London), April Greiman (Los Angeles), Luc(as) de Groot (Berlin), Philippe Apeloig (Paris), Alan Fletcher (London), Stephen Doyle (New York).

Emzin organises the annual Emzin Magazine Photography of the Year Competition which rewards Slovenia’s best photography, and also curates exhibitions on graphic design, illustration and photography on behalf of Avla NLB Gallery, Ljubljana, which presents established and emerging artists and designers. Mirko Ilić, Kostja Gatnik, Blue Note Publishers, Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Jasna Andrić, Aleksandra Vajd, Meta Krese, Philippe Apeloig, April Greiman and Franco Pinna are just a few of the artists who have been presented.

See also

• Emzin Arts Magazine
• Emzin Magazine Photography of the Year Competition

External link

• Emzin Institute of Creative Production and Magazine for Culture on ICSID website