VMSD featured the story about the fastest bank branch in the Adriatic region – Addiko Bank express in Ljubljana.
VMSD featured the story about the fastest bank branch in the Adriatic region – Addiko Bank express in Ljubljana.
After two years of work at the agency Brigada (B&Z sister company) in position of product designer, Vlatka Leskovar has been appointed Creative Director. Offices of Croatia Osiguranje insurance company and Addiko Bank express, AlpStories shop, offices of Infinum and Booking.com, are just some of the projects of this agency on which Leskovar worked. She also designed the Umamice chairs, which are today an independent product of Brigada, and were created during the design of Umami restaurant whose entire unique accessories were created by Leskovar and her team.
“Although my specialty is product design, what inspires me in Brigada is its integrated approach to space, where I was part of a larger team of professionals of different expertise, from sales and marketing to architecture, working to resolve some of the client’s problems, and where we know exactly why we set a strategy underpinning the design, and the objectives we want to achieve,” said Leskovar.
She has a master’s degree in industrial design at the School of Design at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, where she was awarded the annual prize for her graduate thesis.
Photo: Marija Gašparović
A unique banking outlet of Addiko Bank Express opened recently in Ljubljana’s BTC shopping center. In this technologically contemporary designed space, created by the agency Brigada, banking services are adapted to modern needs of the client, and the “fast-paced” location within the shopping center.
It is probably the fastest bank branch in the Adriatic region, blending human interaction and digital speed and simplicity into new banking experience.
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The third Design Week Zagreb, the largest Croatia’s design event, owes its design to Brigada. In approximately 2000 square meters of a former factory space Brigada has designed a system for displaying four different festival programs using the basic natural materials and optimizing it inside a tight budget.
Programs and Brigada’s design:
In the making of each element Brigada used OSB panels, latticework and pallets, designed in order to satisfy the program needs and enable simple transformations.
Pedestals are easily adjusted for different purposes: object display, poster hanging, sitting, storage boxes and so on. With a simple intervention, the stands are transformed from a shopping desk to a wardrobe for example.
The Nordic House stands out. It was used for exhibiting the official partner countries design. Inspired with the minimalism of Nordic design white cloth was used and was hung over the suspended latticework. This way the space was split in four parts and the roofs were formed reminiscent of the ones seen in the North European countries.
The spatial organization, design, optimisation of the materials and techniques – all this created a systematic and visually attractive space, proving that the budget doesn’t necessarily need to limit creativity and consistency of the idea.
Brigada / Damjan Geber (Creative Director), Jelena Babić (Architect), Ana Herceg (Designer)
Domagoj Kunić (Photographer)
Being one of the world’s leading manufacturer of carton packaging, Mayr – Melnhof has earned its global positioning through outstanding performance. Bruketa&Zinic OM Wien and Brigada were in charge for their exhibition stand at the Luxepack Fair Monaco 2015.
Basis of the design concept was to interpret convincing materiality of MM products through high level craftsmanship and hand made finishing of elements. They function as unique artefacts while having function of eye catching signage and decorative exhibition fixtures. In doing so the visual appearance is using different versions of natural or oxidised copper to communicate MM’s products.
Free standing pedestals covered with leafs of natural copper with hand made crystal vitrines were made for this occasion, with warm light discretely glowing from within and refracting through an uneven structure of the glass. One wall is made of natural copper with MM logo in oxidized copper finishing and another wall uses wallpaper with flower image with calla lilies chosen for their emotional associations and elegance.
Bruketa&Žinić OM Wien / Helena Rosandić (Director), Joško Jureškin (Creative Director), Karolina Suder (Account Manager)
Brigada / Damjan Geber (Creative Director), Dominik Cergna (Product Designer), Marko Sančanin (Project Manager)
AlpStories shop concept devised by Brigada has attracted the attention of global media recently. The story has been covered by the Swedish magazines Inside Retail News and Handelstrender, one of the leading retail design blogs, and similar Dutch, Brazilian, Korean and Japanese web magazines. The leading British photo news agency Rex Features also published the story followed by articles in the retail trends publications such as the British Global Innovation Report and LSN Global and the Korean Metatrend.
Brigada‘s Umamica chairs are part of the big annual exhibition during the Ljubljana Month of Design, which is the largest design festival in Southeast Europe. Besides the international exhibition Brands&Signs, with 190 authors from all over the world, the festival’s program features many round table talks, lectures, meetings and parties which are going on until November 20.
Ivana Validžić
Brigada agency held a lecture in Labin (Istria) about the affect shop concepts have on sales results. The lecture was organized by the Local Action Group “Eastern Istria” which is dealing with rural development and whose members are mostly numerous family farms, artisans and small businesses from the area, together with public and civil sector representatives.
Damjan Geber
Brigada, part of Bruketa&Žinić OM group for shop concepts, spatial and product design, has been nominated for the 50th Zagreb Salon of Architecture award with the exhibition design The Culture of Smoking. Playing with the idea of taboo, Brigada’s intention was to design an anti-exhibition – a display that hides the exhibits even from the museum itself. 298 projects entered the competition, 131 have been selected for the Exhibition, and 25 projects were nominated for the award. Brigada won the Red Dot award for the same project.
A recent issue of the Luxembourgish Wunnen magazine on architecture, design and decoration writes about Brigada’s Comb coffe table. Besides Brigada’s work the article made a selection of several other innovative coffe table designs like the French Volcane with an integrated flower pot. British Up Balloon has legs shaped as baloons in the air creating an illusion of floating in the air while Callisto has an integrated screen on its surface.
