When
Friday, June 12, 11:00 – 18:00
Location
Toplocentrala
Ticket
€50,00 (single day)
€80,00 (two-day)
Atelier Andrea Gassner
Andrea Gassner is an Austrian designer. Her work encompasses an expanded understanding of graphic design and operates at the intersection of visual communication, spatial design, and conceptual design. Since 2018, she has run the studio Atelier Andrea Gassner. The studio’s fields of work are diverse – design and media strategy, corporate design, wayfinding systems, spatial installations and exhibition design, web, media, and print design – and are often cross-media in nature. Тhe studio’s work has been widely awarded: more than one hundred prizes nationally and internationally, including State Awards, ADC New York, TDC Tokyo, and the European Design Awards. In 2025, Atelier Andrea Gassner received the prestigious Henry Steiner Prize for outstanding design and currently ranks among the “TOP 50 DESIGN STUDIOS IN EUROPE and No. 1 IN AUSTRIA,” according to the European Design Agencies Ranking 2021–2025. Whether in wayfinding systems for a senior living facility, playful environments for children, or in books, her work consistently explores the quiet power of design that does not shout but tells a story.
Production Type (Léa Bruneau)
Léa Bruneau is a French type designer and calligrapher whose work bridges classic elegance with contemporary sensibilities. She studied graphic and type design at École Estienne in Paris before earning her Master’s degree in Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. She currently works as a senior type designer at Production Type where she develops projects that combine rigor and expressivity, creating typefaces and logotypes that can adapt to a wide range of contexts. Her work has been recognized with the TDC Ascender Award in 2024, and her 2025 typeface family Ciel has received multiple international distinctions.
ICoD (Melike Tascioglu-Vaughan)
In 1963, designer associations from around the world gathered in London, struck a gavel, and called a council into being. Today, the International Council of Design (ICoD) represents 116 organisations across 63 countries — the world’s largest representative body for professional design. ICoD President Melike traces the Council’s journey from Icograda to ICoD, and the world’s journey alongside it: from scarce information and clear boundaries, to a connected, multidisciplinary, borderless design landscape. Her message is simple and direct: design has a unified voice, and you belong in it. A talk about design, power, and what we can build together.
Paul Voggenreiter is a graphic designer whose practice moves between Germany and Bulgaria, shaped by collaboration, research, and context-driven thinking. Since establishing his independent practice in 2019, he has developed a flexible, dialogue-oriented approach, forming project-specific collaborations with designers and artists across Europe, with a continued focus on the Balkan region.
Miroslav Zhivkov is an artist and designer based in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, his work spans graphic design, painting, and screen printing, often blurring the boundaries between them. His visual language evolves through experimentation, from monotype and analog processes to vibrant digital compositions, resulting in what he describes as “good-looking nonsense.” He is the founder of NoPoint Atelier, an independent print studio in Balanite that serves as a platform for international artistic exchange.
Paul Voggenreiter and Miroslav Zhivkov will bring into focus their shared interest in process, experimentation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Their joint presentation will reflect on working across different contexts – geographical, cultural, and material, while discussing their nominated project for the European Design Awards 2026, which captures the dynamic interplay between structured design thinking and open-ended visual exploration.
G2K (Frank Baas and Yuri Nauta)
G2K is a design agency guided by reality with over 25 years of experience in strategy, design & execution. Based in the Netherlands, working from studio’s in Groningen & Amsterdam. With a team of 20+ people who work day in day out to make work that is simple, striking and made to be real. Their approach is rooted in active listening, enabling them to fully understand the clients challenges while using context and reality as guiding principles. Through their design philosophy, they strip away excess to reveal the essence, creating striking new realities that drive businesses and organizations forward. Frank Baas and Yuri Nauta, partners at G2K, will share their perspective on design. Frank (1969) joined G2K in 2000, and has been pushing the envelope since then as creative director and strategist. Yuri (1989) joined G2K in 2017, with a focus on delivering top notch digital projects. Their work has gained global recognition, earning awards such as the European Design Awards and Red Dot Design Awards for numerous projects.
FourPlus (Ivaylo Nedkov and Tsvetislava Koleva)
Ivaylo Nedkov is co-founder at FourPlus Studio, leading the studio’s visual identity work since its earliest days. Tsvetislava Koleva is Creative Director with over a decade of experience across every stage of the creative process.
FourPlus is a strategy, design, and motion studio founded in Sofia in 2009 with a simple ambition – to make things that matter and work. Over time, they came to understand that even the strongest execution loses its power when the pieces don’t speak to each other.
So they built a team that works alongside the client, understands the brand, the audience, and the environment – and covers the full process: from strategy and design to motion. Because the goal isn’t just a strong individual output, but a cohesive system and vision that makes the brand distinctive and successful in the long run. Their work has been recognised at both national and international level.