Graphic Designer · North Macedonia

Turn your ideas into a striking brand that everyone notices.

Started at a marketing agency in Skopje — a leasing bank, a casino, a national magazine with covers displayed at pharmacies. Now I work independently as a freelancer for clients in the United States and Bahrain.

Adobe Certified Professional — Visual Design
Adobe Certified Professional — Photoshop
Adobe Certified Professional — Illustrator
Adobe Certified Professional — InDesign
3Countries
8Brands
7Issues
133Pages
68Creatives
4Adobe certs
Credentials

Certified in all three

Adobe Certified Professional in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign — plus the Visual Design credential earned across the suite. Every one independently verifiable.

Visual DesignAdobe Certified Professional in Visual Design — the credential earned across the full suiteAdobe · Creative Cloud
PhotoshopAdobe Certified Professional in Visual DesignIssued 13 Dec 2021Verify
IllustratorAdobe Certified Professional in Graphic Design & IllustrationIssued 07 Feb 2022Verify
InDesignAdobe Certified Professional in Print & Digital Media PublicationIssued 06 Jun 2022Verify
EducationSemos Education, Skopje — graphic designSkopje, North Macedonia
EnglishEF SET certified — B2, Upper IntermediateFeb 2022Verify
Selected work

Printed, installed, published

Three chapters: a poster competition I won as a student, a year inside a Skopje agency, and the clients I now work with directly.

Chapter 01 · 2022

Where it started

A real client brief handed to a cohort of 25 design students at Semos Education in Skopje. My poster was selected for the festival’s 2022 edition, then printed and displayed around the city.

Galicko Festival

Poster · June 2022

The official poster for the debut Galicko Festival, "Galicnik for Icko," held in Galicnik on 18 June 2022. The festival honours Risto Melovski (DJ Icko) and brings together music, hiking and motorcycling.

Client
Galicko Association
Galicnik, 18 June 2022
Selected
Selected for the 2022 edition from 25 student design submissions
Brief
Socially responsible live-client project at Semos Education, Skopje
Formats
Portrait + landscape · Cyrillic and Latin
Scope
PosterIllustrationTypographySponsor lockupsPrint

Mountains, a vinyl record, music notes, lights and sound waves frame the road to Galicnik. Built twice for both orientations and set in Cyrillic and Latin — the third image is the printed poster in a Skopje bus shelter.

Chapter 02 · 2024

Agency work — Block & Roll Macedonia

In-house designer at a Skopje creative agency. Inside a single year: seven magazine issues for Betty Магазин, a roadside billboard for Grand Casino Admiral, and ongoing campaign work for Sparkasse Leasing and ESI — agency pace, agency standards, brand guidelines that do not bend.

Grand Casino Admiral

Out-of-home · 2024

A roadside billboard for the “My Next Win” campaign — designed to be read in the two seconds a driver gives it, at a size where every soft edge would have shown.

Client
Grand Casino Admiral
Studio
Block & Roll Macedonia
In-house designer
Format
Roadside billboard
Zeleznicka 31, Skopje
Constraint
One headline, one image, one call to action
Scope
Large formatCompositingType at scalePrint

Left: the artwork under construction, guides still visible. Right: the same board installed and live on the street.

Betty Магазин

Editorial · 2024

Complete editorial design for a free monthly health and lifestyle magazine distributed through pharmacy chains across North Macedonia — seven issues, 133 pages, every one built on the same grid.

Client
Betty Магазин
Studio
Block & Roll Macedonia
In-house designer
Issues
Број 123 – 129
June – December 2024
Extent
133 pages across seven issues
Role
Sole designer — cover to press-ready file
Scope
Cover art directionRetouchingLayoutAdvertorialsInfographicsCMYK export

Seven covers, June to December 2024.

Inside the issues — contents pages, interviews, step-by-step features, custom infographics, recipes and advertorials, all on one grid across 133 pages. Photographed from the printed copies.

Sparkasse Leasing

Brand campaign · Banking

Campaign and collateral design for a leasing bank, including the “15 years in Macedonia” anniversary campaign. Financial brands have narrow guidelines and no tolerance for drift; the work has to look effortless inside them.

Client
Sparkasse Leasing
Studio
Block & Roll Macedonia
In-house designer
Campaign
15 години во Македонија
Scope
Social campaignsFlyersBrochuresMerchandise

ESI — Employment Services International

Campaign · Recruitment

A high-volume social campaign for a recruitment agency: bold, repeatable layouts built to stay recognisable as a set while each post carries a different message.

Client
ESI — Employment Services International
Studio
Block & Roll Macedonia
In-house designer
Approach
Master templates with locked type and colour, so volume never costs consistency
Scope
Campaign systemInstagramFacebookTypography
Chapter 03 · Freelance

Direct clients

Work I won, scoped, priced and delivered myself, for clients in the United States and Bahrain — working directly rather than through an agency.

MD&CD Home Improvements

Social & 3D · United States

A six-month creative retainer for a US home-improvement contractor — twelve finished visuals a month on a fixed weekly schedule, from raw job-site photography through to published post.

Client
MD&CD Home Improvements
United States
Engagement
Monthly retainer
Cadence
Monday post · Wednesday post · Friday video
12 deliverables a month
Notable
With no usable client photography, visuals were built from scratch in Blender 3D
Scope
Photo editingBlender 3DInstagramReelsPublishing

Synchronizing

3D animation · Blender

A short 3D animation made in Blender for an online render challenge. It was selected and played in full on the organiser’s stream, where the entries were reviewed live on camera.

Tool
Blender — modelling, materials, lighting, animation
Format
5-second loop, 1920×800
Made for
An online Blender render challenge
Outcome
Entry featured and reviewed on the organiser’s stream
Learned
Self-taught in Blender — no certificate, several years in
Scope
ModellingProcedural materialsLightingAnimationCompositing

Plays on loop. Modelled, lit, textured and animated from scratch.

Watch the challenge review

Streamline

Brand identity & launch

A water-filtration business with no brand and no online presence. I drew the mark, set up the channels, and produce the posts — the whole path from nothing to a running account.

Client
Streamline
Water filtration & installation
Brief
Start from zero — identity, channels, content
Mark
Illustration of two water drops that form the letter "S". Drawn by hand, no AI.
Also
Instagram and Facebook set up from scratch, ongoing posts in Macedonian
Scope
Logo designBrand identityChannel setupContent

The mark first, then the system it has to live inside — one lockup, one palette, one type hierarchy, repeated across every post.

Chasing Dragons — Think Pink Bahrain

Poster & retouching · Bahrain

Campaign artwork for a breast cancer awareness fundraiser in Bahrain and portrait retouching.

Client
Private client, Bahrain
Campaign
Chasing Dragons: Stronger Together
Cause
Think Pink Bahrain — breast cancer awareness
Won via
Upwork
Scope
Poster designSponsor lockupsRetouchingFormat adaptation

The same campaign built twice — landscape and portrait — so the hierarchy survives both crops.

Studio portraits retouched for the campaign: skin and hair cleaned up, tone evened, background rebuilt — without making the subject look like anyone other than himself.

Portfolio

Photography

Beyond design, I shoot. Cities, people and details, photographed and edited by me. The full set is on Pexels — free to download and use.

Capability

What I do

Print & editorial

  • Magazine and multi-page layout
  • Cover art direction
  • Flyers, brochures, trifolds
  • Packaging and dielines
  • Press-ready CMYK, bleed, crop marks

Large format & retouching

  • Billboard and out-of-home
  • Poster and campaign artwork
  • Portrait and product retouching
  • Photo compositing
  • Vector redraw for scale

Brand & social

  • Logo and brand identity
  • Instagram and Facebook systems
  • Template systems for volume
  • Reels and short-form video
  • Scheduling and publishing

3D & tools

  • Blender — modelling, procedural materials, animation
  • Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign
  • AI tools, used deliberately
  • Macedonian & English
  • Cyrillic and Latin typesetting
Engagement

How I work

Designer, not an agency. I work from home. Tools: Adobe, Blender and AI.

Monthly retainer — preferred

  • An agreed number of deliverables each month
  • A fixed weekly schedule you can plan around
  • Ran Monday / Wednesday / Friday for a US client
  • Templates built once, so volume never costs consistency

Project work

  • Magazine issues and multi-page documents
  • Packaging, brochures and print collateral
  • Brand identity and its application
  • Press-ready files your printer can use

Where AI fits

  • Used in client work: ideation, retouching, cleanup
  • Never for logos — those are drawn by hand
  • Never passed off as illustration
  • Tell me your preference and I work that way

What you get

  • Layered source files, not just flat exports
  • Correct CMYK, bleed and crop marks
  • Work delivered on the day it was promised
  • A designer in your timezone
Contact

Let’s make something together.

Based in North Macedonia on Central European Time — a full working day of overlap with Europe, and the morning with North America. Available for freelance and contract work, and I invoice internationally.

Work shown was created for the named clients. All brand names and trademarks belong to their respective owners — shown here for portfolio purposes only.

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