Studio

The names behind the stuff we do.

Zarja Vintar | Founder and Creative Director

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At KOFEIN DIZAJN she creatively manages international and national communication projects in the fields of design, branding, research and development.

She acts as the conceptual and implementation manager of the YU_GO project, a development project in the field of culture, which was awarded the European Commission’s @diversity Idea Award and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Innovation Award.

Zarja Vintar led the initiative for the introduction of a Single digital infrastructure for culture, which has been integrated into local and national policies, e.g. the Alpine Macroregion Strategy and the Smart Specialisation Strategy Action Plan for Sustainable Tourism. It is included in a number of other professional, development and strategic initiatives in the field of arts and culture.

She is co-founder of the Hevreka! Institute, an institute for the promotion of innovation and culture, where she has been involved in national projects for the creation of development infrastructures and the exchange of development potential between different social spheres (Razvoj.si project).

She is a member of the Strategic Council for Research and Development (SSRRI) at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a member of the EIT Culture & Creativity Policy Club, participates in the Slovenian Designers’ Association and is the initiator of the project Recommendations for the Evaluation of Design Services.

In addition to the YU-GO project for recommending cultural events, she leads the team of the non-profit and award-winning ELI project, which develops digital software for people with dementia. She is also co-founder of WUFF, a start-up developing services for pet owners.

Her areas of expertise are design, industrial design, branding, development for digital media, cultural management. She is an industrial designer (Universität der Künste Berlin, MA), MBA (University of Kansas, USA) and MA in Economics (University of Ljubljana).

 

Jana Jazbec | Art Director

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Jana is company co-owner and the primary conceptual and creative leader of our collective with extensive experience that has earned several awards. Besides concept and content creation, as well as most of the design work, she also produces infographics, illustrations and photographs.

Her areas of expertise include visual design, strategic planning of visual communications, branding, digital applications development, user experience, infographics and illustration.

 

Jasna Zabel | Project Manager

Jasna graduated in graphic communications, has worked in various cultural institutions (MGLC, National Museum of Slovenia, etc.), and in her spare time she is interested in literature and gastronomy. At Kofein, in addition to project management, she maintains contact with clients, manages social networks, designs user experience and works as an editor. Her areas of expertise are project management, user experience, digital project development, social networks, human resources management and event organisation.

 

Maša Kokalj | Designer

Maša takes over the design concepts and final preparation of the printed materials. She has recently completed her studies as a Master in Graphic Design and Interactive Communication, has worked with several companies in the field of publishing design, and has also studied editorial design in Portugal. In collaboration with the University of Ljubljana, she has created the final graphic design for several publications. She has worked primarily in the cultural field as a print designer, social media editor and photographer. She joined the team in 2021.

 

Vid Ribič | Lead Developer

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Vid is the studio’s lead software developer and user experience designer. His areas of expertise include analysis and design of information systems, web architecture, prototyping, and programming. After the degree, he has been involved in the development for one of the biggest Slovenian telecommunication company. Lately, he has been busy finishing his Master’s degree on graspable interfaces at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science.

 

Miha Medven | Development Consultant

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Miha is our main digital applications developer, an expert in user experience and active member of several developer and UX communities. He participates in start-up meet-ups and regularly holds lectures in subjects of user experience, programming and copywriting for various institutions. He is actively co-creating the future of interactive media with his efforts in innovative, ML-based apps development, as well as by being member of the Today is a new day initiative (Danes je nov dan).

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Photography: Jaka Babnik