- TRIO Sarajevo
TRIO Sarajevo is a graphic design group based in
Sarajevo .Overview
Bojan and Dada Hadzihalilovic (together with a third artist, Lela Mulabegovic Hatt) make up the design group "TRIO Sarajevo". Formed in 1985, originally as a three-person design team composed of graduates from the Sarajevo faculty of fine arts, TRIO were part of the particular Sarajevo generation which was raised on the punk culture and pop-art movements.
By the late-1980s TRIO had become one of the busiest and easily the most innovative design company in
former Yugoslavia . Their first widely-acclaimed work was a redesign of the famousBeatles album cover "Sergeant Pepper" for the pop-rock groupPlavi Orkestar (Blue Orchestra), which sold almost half a million copies. From there TRIO went on to create designs for a number of other bands, theatre companies and art and culture-based magazines.Awards
In 1989 TRIO won a
Saatchi & Saatchi award for their work at a TV and marketing festival inSlovenia , and subsequently spent three months working atSaatchi & Saatchi 'sBelgrade office.Press coverage
TRIO's work has been written about in both the news and art press. Among English language publications which have covered the life and work of TRIO are:
The Independent ,The Guardian ,Newsweek ,The Scotsman ,Art Press ,Creative Review .Fact|date=May 2007
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