Jakob Bekš Email & Phone Number

Ljubljana, SI

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Honest Work Recordings is an electronic music label founded in May 2021. Honest work is where you don't lie in order to sell. Honesty is being honest to yourself and your audience. It is creating something beautiful that doesn't need to deceive in order to create a return. It is only judged on the merits of its execution and craft. Honest music for honest.

Berlin Area, Germany

Imaginary Radio Stations is a project by three Slovenian music enthusiasts, DJs and artists, founded in Berlin. Its activities include event organization, sound design and music publishing.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

In the role of art director, designed and implemented diverse projects ranging from visual identities, publications, storyboards, titles and credits for videos, digital ads, catalogues, billboards and posters, websites, packaging and illustrations for clients such as Janssen CE&B, Hofer, Croatia Osiguranje, Turizem Ljubljana, Vinakoper and many others.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Working for the regional office of international advertising agency Publicis, I created visual identities, publications, technical and editorial illustrations, presentations, storyboards, digital, print and video ads for clients such as Renault, Dacia, Barilla, Merkur and many others.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Working as a freelance art director for Studio Signum, I redesigned the Litterae Slovenicae book collection, published by the the Slovene Writers' Association. The collection features international translations of more than 75 works by Slovene writers. I created the new visual identity, colour-coding different genre blocks, revamped the typography and.

Designed and illustrated a poster for Facilitool, a facilitation control panel (designed in collaboration with the Co-Creation School) which serves as a visualisation of the various aspects of workshop facilitation.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Worked as a freelance art director with the marketing & advertising agency Herman & partnerji on the advertising campaign "Začni prihodnost" ("Start the future") for Chinese technology company Huawei. (creative director: Miha Bevc, copywriter: Rok Artiček)

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

Designed the online publication "Dance, Audience & Society" for EDN, a network of contemporary dance houses across Europe. The internal publication is focused on on audience engagement and features members' experience and best practice examples for engagement and retention.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Assisted in developing visual assets for Eli, an application for advanced stage dementia patients and helped develop pictograms and new security signage for the Krško Nuclear Power Plant.

Berlin Area, Germany

Designed the visual concept for the P9 EU Tour event series and corresponding digital & print assets.

Berlin Area, Germany

Designed various internal and external documents (manoeuvering handbook, promotional materials, printables, display visuals, event visuals and invitations), consolidating and expanding the client's existing brand identity.

Chief Brand Officer for Ahoy Berlin, a coworking space in Berlin. My work included consolidating and conceptually unifying the company's brand identity, creating the corresponding brand identity guidelines, mission and vision statements, internal documents, sales decks and handling all aspects of the brand's external image (including in-house signage.

Ljubljana / Berlin

Co-founder and creative director of Scienceofuse, an independent Slovenian electronic music collective and record label (2003-2016) responsible for the infamous Gumitwist club night series (2008-2013 )at the legendary Klub K4, hosting a diverse array of internationally renowned artists like A Guy Called Gerald, Alexander Robotnick, Octave One.

Ljubljana

Event manager, art director and co-creator of the infamous Gumitwist club nights, hosting internationally renowned artists including Alexander Robotnick, A Guy Called Gerald, Detroit Grand Pubahs, Dexter, DJ Sotofett, Fabrice Lig aka Soul Designer, Legowelt, Mark Broom, Modeselektor, Rabih Beaini aka Morphosis, Octave One, Terrence Parker, Traxx and many.

Ljubljana

Designed flyers, posters and online visuals for numerous club nights and other events. Performed at Utrip Festival with fellow illustrator and graphic designer Tibor Kranjc and video artists Neja Engelsberger and Akaša Bojič with a live illustration / animation jam session. Designed the visual identity of Gumitwist and Črna Mačka club nights (held in Klub.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Created storyboards for a successful TV ad pitch (client: Meggle) as a freelancer for the Ljubljana office of the international advertising agency Imelda Ogilvy.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Worked as a graphic designer / youth art director at the Luna / TBWA international advertising agency on various ad campaigns and pitches (clients including BMW, Nissan, BDF Beiersdorf: Nivea, Eucerin, Labello, Unicreditbank and many others).