Radovan Jenko Slovenian, b. 1955

Radovan Jenko is artist, designer, illustrator and professor from Solvenia. In 1981 he graduated in Poster Art under prof. Henryk Tomaszewski and Painting under prof. Teresa Pagowska in Warsaw. From 1981-86 he was art director and designer at Aero Design studio, and then in 1986 started as an independent designer in his own workshop, where he did work for various cultural institutions and economic companies in Slovenia.

In 1991 he began teaching Visual Communication at the University of Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design; where he recently worked as professor for Visual Communication and Illustration.

In 2003, Jenko helped co-found the Brumen Foundation, an institution for promoting visual communications, which organises the Biennial of Slovene Visual Communication. As part of the foundation, for their 4th Biennial in 2009, Jenko established and became the artistic director of the International Poster Festival Ljubljana.

Jenko has won several awards, including the Slovene National Award for Design, a silver medal at Art Directors Club New York, a Silver Award at Toyama Poster Triennial, 1st Award at the International Exhibition of Graphic Design and Visual communications ZGRAF, 1st Award at the Triennial of Eco Poster Kharkov; and from 2005-2013 he was awarded 6 Brumen Awards at the Biennials of Slovene Visual Communications.

He is a member of the AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.