Miroslav Grčev (, ; born 1955) is a Macedonian

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

graphic designer A graphic designer is a practitioner who follows the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently. They are professionals in design and visual communication, with their primary focus on transforming ...

, comic artistTomislav Osmanli
„Razvojot na stripot vo Makedonija – sedum decenii stripovno tvoreštvo“
''Strip, zapis so čovečki lik'', „Mlad borec“, 1987; „Kultura“, Skopje 2002
Proekt Rastko - Makedonija
14. 5. 2010. and

caricaturist A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. List of caricaturists * Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Abril Lamarque (1904–1999) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfre ...

. He is known for having designed the current

flag A flag is a piece of textile, fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and fla ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

and a popular proposal for a new coat of arms of North Macedonia. Grčev was born in

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

(now the capital of

), and started to become interested in

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art that involves creating visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of ...

in the mid-1970s, when he worked on the design of LP records. In 1979, Grčev graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. Today, he teaches as a professor of urban planning at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. Miroslav Grčev was mayor of central Skopje municipality "Centar" in 1996-2000 from

Social Democratic Union of Macedonia The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia ( – СДСМ, ''Socijaldemokratski sojuz na Makedonija'' – SDSM, – LSDM) is a social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in North Macedonia, political party, and the main Centre-l ...

. He is one of the most ardent critics of the identity policy of "

antiquization Antiquization (), also sometimes referred as ancient Macedonism (), is a term used mainly to critically describe the Identity politics, identity policies conducted by the Macedonian nationalism, nationalist VMRO-DPMNE-led governments of North M ...

" and of the associated urban plan Skopje 2014, carried out by the Macedonian governments after 2006. In a project called 'Museum of Yugoslavia', Grčev openly claimed that the Macedonian state was invented within Yugoslavia at the end of the Second World War and there the Macedonian nation, Macedonian culture, Macedonian language and all Macedonian symbols were emancipated. At 26 December 2014, he promoted his collection of articles, published between 2006 and 2014, under the title „Името на злото“ ("The Name of the Evil").

References

External links

Miroslav Grčev, 'Signs and Ornaments', Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
1955 births Living people Politicians from Skopje Social Democratic Union of Macedonia politicians Flag designers Album-cover and concert-poster artists Architects from Skopje Macedonian painters Artists from Skopje Macedonian comics artists Macedonian caricaturists 20th-century Macedonian artists 21st-century Macedonian artists {{NorthMacedonia-politician-stub

See also

References

External links