Radio prvi
Radio prvi design je naloga, ki ne dopušča kompromisov. Nacionalni radio nosi pričakovanja poslušalcev, politični pritisk in tehnične omejitve — vse hkrati. Ko smo se lotili tega projekta, smo vedeli, da mora vsak vizualni element opravičiti svoje mesto v sistemu, ki mora delovati enako dobro na zaslonu kot v zraku.
Gost nedeljskega Nočnega obiska bo Gregor Žakelj, eden najbolj uspešnih in največkrat, tudi mednarodno nagrajenih oblikovalcev v Sloveniji.

Pred kratkim je za oblikovanje stekleničke za bučno olje družinskega podjetja Kocbek, prejel eno najbolj prestižnih in uglednih oblikovalskih nagrad na svetu – Red dot. Njegova dela in uspehi so poželi veliko pohval v tujini, izbran je bil med 10 najperspektivnejših kreativcev v Evropi s strani ADC*E Barcelona in prejel je več kot 80 slovenskih in mednarodnih nagrad. Med njimi ADC*E, European Design Award, Golden Drum, Sof, Brumen, Volvo Design Award, Regpak, German Design Award,etc.). Svoje znanje predaja na številnih konferencah doma in v tujini, kjer zagovarja svojo misel, da je dobro oblikovanje za dobre naročnike. V leta 2004 ustanovljenem lastnem oblikovalskem studiu VBG (Visual Brain Gravity) delajo vse od grafičnega oblikovanja in oglaševanja do strategij in spletnih nastopov. Pred mikrofon ga je povabila voditeljica Liana Buršič.
Kaj naredi Radio prvi design funkcionalen in ne le estetski
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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.
Everything beautiful is analog
Everything beautiful is analog — that's not nostalgia, it's a working method. We've spent two decades in Ljubljana making things by hand first, screen second, and the difference shows up in the work. Analog design philosophy isn't a romantic detour; it's where the real decisions get made.
A healthy brand
Healthy brand design starts with honesty — not aspiration dressed up as values. We've watched too many briefs arrive wrapped in sustainability language that dissolves the moment you press on the strategy underneath it. A healthy brand isn't greener or louder; it's structurally coherent, and that coherence is what we've been designing for since 2004.
Ethics
Design ethics and sustainability aren't a policy we wrote to hang on a wall — they're the criteria we use before we say yes to a project. We've been running this studio since 2004, and the framework hasn't changed: if the work can't be defended on ethical grounds, it doesn't leave the desk. Design ethics and sustainability, in practice, means turning things down as often as taking them on.
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 is and what people actually believe. We've spent twenty years closing that gap, and the distance is rarely where clients expect it to be.
Why Making by Hand Still Matters in the Age of AI
Making by hand isn't a romantic habit we've held onto — it's the part of our process where the actual decisions happen. Before any screen gets involved, we draw, we cut, we test with our fingers. That physical resistance is where making by hand produces something AI can't replicate: a choice made under uncertainty, not optimised from existing data.
What is the one positive impact the brand wants to have
Brand positive impact is the question we ask before anything else — before colour, before form, before the first mark on paper. Not what the brand sells, but what shift it causes in the people who encounter it. That single answer, when we find it, becomes the gravitational centre everything else orbits.
Hell Yes
Hell yes creative approach is how we decide what to make — and what to walk away from. If a project doesn't produce that immediate, visceral pull, we don't take it. That filter, applied consistently since 2004, is the reason our work holds together as a body rather than a portfolio of compromises.