Manifestica Graficke is a 1979 logo attributed to Serbian graphic designer Miloš Ćirić. The mark is documented within the broader context of Ćirić’s extensive output of graphic identification work created during the Yugoslav era, though specific visual details of this particular mark are not documented in available sources.
Design and History
Miloš Ćirić (1931–1999) was a Serbian visual artist, educator, and graphic designer who created more than 1,000 logos over his career, along with city coat-of-arms, letter designs, posters, and books on visual communication.[1] His fields of interest included graphic identification, lettering, advertisement, book design, and heraldry.[1]
Ćirić’s logo work is preserved in the Yugo logo project, a research archive initiated in 2019 by Belgrade-based graphic designer Ognjen Ranković that documents graphic identification created in Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1992.[2] The project has produced two published volumes collecting more than 600 logos, monograms, and symbols, with Ćirić among the featured designers.[3]
Ćirić’s own publication Grafička identifikacija 1961–1981 (Graphic Identification 1961–1981), published in 1982, documented his logo work from that period.[4] The 1979 date attributed to Manifestica Graficke falls within this documented period of his graphic identification practice.
Meaning and Symbolism
No documented description of the Manifestica Graficke mark’s visual elements or intended symbolism has been located in available sources. Ćirić’s general approach to marks is recorded in his own words from 1982: “A mark is a condensed story, sometimes several different stories, which have been reduced to one short word. The word turns into a picture, which we read with one glance.”[2]
Beyond this general statement of design philosophy, specific meaning for the Manifestica Graficke mark cannot be verified from available research.
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