GOOD DESIGN IS FOR GOOD CLIENTS.
Branding and graphic design studio in Ljubljana, Slovenia
As a branding design studio, we've spent more than 25 years designing identities that travel well and move brands forward. We work with startups, cultural institutions, and companies across Europe. But more than that, we work with people. We believe that's where good work begins. There are 130 projects (83 logos) with 4,832 crafted images and 289,755 carefully chosen words in the portfolio. ⸻hello@vbg.si
Selected case studies (17/130)
We should all write, but not all should publish.
The idea of the essays is to improve and constantly update even the written ones, hoping they will mature with age. Currently, there are 88 topics that are an ongoing exploration of short, one-minute essays and monologues about our design studio and things connected to it.
Why so serious?
We ditched the books, picked up a pen, and let strange creatures appear. Turns out that's not a detour — it's how branding actually starts.
Numbers can tell us what happened. Creativity helps us decide what should happen next for the brand.
We can measure reach and clicks. We can't measure instinct or taste. Here's why that gap matters more than any conversion rate.
Know Your Duty, Poet
Half the year gone, hammock by the sea — and still the same question: did I create enough? The poet's debt is never fully paid.
Every Element Has a Job
Every element has a job — or it doesn't belong on the page. That's the single discipline that has shaped our work since 2004. When purposeful graphic design is the standard, nothing survives by…
Made with AI Is the New Made in China
Made with AI design is the new "Made in China" — and we mean that as a warning, not a trend report. We've spent twenty years watching what happens when cost becomes the only design criteria. The…
Why Are We Searching for Clarity?
Clarity in design is what every brief promises and almost nothing delivers. We've been watching this gap widen for two decades — between what communication claims to say and what it actually lands.…
Ljubljana to do
Ljubljana to-do lists are usually the same – the castle, the market, Plečnik. We have been designing in this city since 2004 and we see it differently: through the facades, the typography on the…
You thought it would hold.
Brand consistency breakdown rarely announces itself. It arrives as a slightly wrong typeface, a colour that's close but not right, a logo scaled by someone who didn't know why the padding existed.…
Definition of a brand
Definition of a brand is where most projects quietly fail — not in execution, but in understanding. A brand is not a logo, not a palette, not a tagline. It is the gap between what a company says it…
How to use AI without losing your soul
How to use AI without losing your soul is the wrong question only if you've already handed your thinking over. We haven't. After two decades of building identities from first principles, we treat AI…
Slovenia the fun facts
Slovenia fun facts are rarely what they seem. The bear counts and flute discoveries are real enough — but the stories built around them, the way a nation curates its own mythology, that's where the…















