artida - the cutest T-shirts!, originally uploaded by Ajda Gregorčič.

Here it is - the cutest artida T-shirt design for all you lovers of cute characters with cute names (especially the one from the cutest european country Slovenia)!

This first artida T-shirt design concept is more simple and transparent so you get to know artida a little better. But soon, more T-shirt and postcard designs will be presented to you on this website, so stay in touch!

Cutelicious!***

artida postcards - sLOVEnia series, originally uploaded by Ajda Gregorčič.

Here are artida’s first postcard designs for sLOVEnia series!

Since I’ve been getting some e-mails to share my ‘i feel slovenia t-shirt design‘ I decided to make some Slovenian promotional items and make them available to people who would like to purchase them. The theme is about artida, the cutest slovenian character!, and is the first slovenian icon that uses japanese kawaii style in form if illustrations on different promotional items. The first step are postcards and T-shirts and other items will be available soon! Website is currently under construction and will be online in the next two months. You will be abble to purchase and order promotional items with artida character! Don’t worry, you’ll be informed in time

And what do you think about artida character for branding our small country Slovenia? Do you like it? Should I use more ’slovenian’ colours like green? Is there a future in branding cute characters in Europe?

I’d be glad to get some opinions on this on this topic. Just leave your response in the comments box below the article.

I was recently invited to draw illustrations for a coloring book. Slovenian company Amis is celebrating their 15th anniversary and hired an advertising agency to make a corporate identity of several events and projects with world championship boxer Dejan Zavec from Slovenia. The agency contacted me to make illustrations for this coloring book which will be sent to children as a gift if they made a drawing about the internet.

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Today I present you Artida, my newest and cutest character. Artida was designed to make people happy and make us smile. She likes to discover new things and make fun of them, especially by dressing into other cute little things and people just for fun.

Her name comes from my slovenian name Ajda which is pronounced ‘Ida‘ in english and she is designed to make your products look nice and cool. She is my art and so I call her Artida.

Artida will not let you forget her since she has become my friend and will be staying in touch. So say hello and let the kawaii world know that cute little japanese characters got their first slovenian friend.

Yataa!!! °-°

Have you ever wondered how Pantone, the design world’s color standard, is created? Check out this video!

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Steklarstvo Bistrica logo design, originally uploaded by Ajda Gregorčič.

This logo was made for slovenian company that distributes glass for personal and industrial purposes. The client wanted a simple and clean logo that would distinguish its identity from other glazier companies in the same city or nearby.

I decided to use serif font to present the historic importance of glazier activity in general and substantiate it with the logo initials ‘S’ and ‘B’, which are distinguished only by colour and are carefully placed left from the typographic part of the logo.

The colours were kind of the client’s wish, but they were also chosen for the recognition and differentiation factor that was very important for this company to really stand out in the crowd.

The company has already started using the logo, which is a big (first) step in the company’s new identity.

Bringler igre website redesign, originally uploaded by Ajda Gregorčič.

A few months ago we redesigned the Bringler igre website, a slovenian website with free online flash games that is owned by the game development company Motiviti (www.motiviti.com).

I redesigned the menu, the frames, buttons and links, colour combinations, changed the fonts and logo a bit and voila! (Took me two months to get to ‘voila’, but ok

The thing I’m the most proud of is the menu (default, active, mouse-over), but the hardest thing was to minimize the design elements so that game categories wouldn’t get overlooked because of the constantly changing game thumbnails.

We made quite a change to the design layout but stayed consistent to the previous one so the frequent users wouldn’t have to learn the new layout all over again. We also made it easier to the users to navigate through categories and add a new menu tab ‘Igre za punce’ (Games for girls) where girls can find games they like the most.

Every now and then we change the background picture on Bringler so you can have something nice to watch while waiting for games to load