Hello
 

My name is Katarína Balážiková. I am a graphic designer living and working in Bratislava. Most recently I am and internal graphic designer at the Slovak National Theatre collaborating on creation of the in-house creative agency.

I’ve finished the degree ArtD in Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava where I am tutoring my own course called Critic – Critical Practice in Graphic Design. It focuses on support and development of critical projects of students reflecting social environment. I am an author of international blogzine Critical Daily - www.criticaldaily.org.

I am a founder of Open Design Network – a network of graphic designers freelancers, who design, invent and collaborate on this open platform. We focus mainly on graphic design and visual communication, although we are able to invent entire campaigns and ideological communication strategies. Our portfolio includes corporate and non-corporate projects, print and digital visual comunication, promotion of culture events, ngo sector, working on books and magazines, logos, distinctive campaigns and non-traditional forms of media communication.

I am also a co-founder of non-governmental organization Open Design Studio, that addresses critical topics with visual communication tools and approaching issues from diverse social and political aspects. Its main aim is to present graphic design as an open platform for development of critical practice by organizing workshops, exhibitions, lectures, talks or individual projects.

I am open to design, experiment, collaboration and to new challenges. In my practice I am developing two areas - working both on my professional portfolio and research, critical practice and socially engaged design.

Contact me

Address
Katarína Balážiková, ArtD
Open Design Network, s.r.o.
Jura Hronca 3243/56,
841 02 Bratislava
Bratislava
Slovak Republic

Partners
www.opendesignstudio.sk
www.criticaldaily.org

See my CV here.