Winner of the new EFWMF-logo competition: NEDA FIRFOVA
Neda Firfova is a graphic designer based in The Netherlands and Japan. She is establishing her practice as a designer through her current design research conducted at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. She pursued her MA at the Graphic Design Department of Tama Art University in Tokyo, Japan in 2009. She graduated in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje in 2005.
She has been involved in designing installations that invite typographic interventions from audiences or collaborators, and other projects that involve interactive approaches to typography, book design or graphic design in general. Her work has been exhibited internationally: The Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bosnia etc.
She works mainly for cultural and art institutions. Her clients include: press to exit project space, Upgrade!International and Skopje Jazz Festival. In 2010 she co-founded No Wonder Studio.
(the 2011 celebration year will start at Womex 2010)