Dušan Grobovšek

Dušan Grobovšek won the Prešeren Student Award in 1987 and in 1990 became the first graduate in visual communication design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. After graduating, he worked at the advertising agency Delo Stik, spent five years as a designer and art director at Studio Marketing and 15 years as an art and creative director at the advertising agencies Formitas BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi and Publicis. In 2010 he opened his own studio, Idejološka ordinacija Dušana Grobovška. He is a recipient of national and international awards, including several gold and silver awards at the Slovenian Advertising Festival, Golden and Silver Drums at the Golden Drum Festival, Golden MM diplomas, BIO diplomas, an Epica Award, a Slovenian Packaging Oscar, etc. Most recently, in 2022, he received the Woodworking Design of the Year Award and the Valvazor Award. Alongside his advertising work, he designs products that tell their own stories under the Idejavue brand.