ARTA SAMAKOVA

    Her practice blends print, editorial design, and photography—rooted in a sensitivity to typography, layout, and narrative structure. Based between Pristina and Amsterdam, she explores how stories unfold across the page, where identity, memory, and behavior quietly shape the reading experience.







    Experience

    2022 - Present Freelance Graphic Designer
    2023 - Present  Freelance Graphic and web Designer at Trembelat, Pristina, RKS.
    2022 - Freelancer at Tara Fallaux 

    Education
    2018 - 2022   BA Graphic Design, University of the Arts Utrecht – Cum laude. 
    2021     Internship Tara Fallaux 
    2016 - 2018: Media design, Technovium, Nijmegen. 

    Publications
    2022     Une Arrita
    2022     Graduation Catalogue, A gesture
    2020     ABRI Magazine (Academiegalerie)

    Exhibitions & Publications
    2023     Unseen Bookmarket Amsterdam
    2022     Grauation Catalogue (HKU Media)
    2022     Graduation Show (HKU)
    2021     RE-FRAME (online event)
    2020     Lost & Found (online event)
    2020     ABRI Magazine (Academiegalerie)
    2019     Ekspo (HKU Media)
    2019     Multiplicity (LE:EN)
    A gesture

    The catalog 'A Gesture' showcases the work of 180 graduates from the University of the Arts Utrecht that have each made a gesture in their own way. Their gestures are explored through themes of Approach, Arouse, Merge, Question and Revive. These themes allow for a categorisation based on stories, rather than studies.

    The book contains a total of 310 pages and is printed using offset technique. It's wrapped in a screen-printed sleeve complimented by a green elastic-band that holds everything in place.

    In collaboration with

    Juul van der Zandt & Valentino Angela 


    Book Design
    310 pages |  17 x 24 cm
    2022


    Fringe The Gallery – identity


    2024






    RTK – visual  identity TV channel 


    Trembelat
    2024



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    Une Arrita, I arrived.

    A photo installation accompanied by a book that studies the notion of identity from the point of view of someone who has lived in- and outside of it, and acted as a bridge between two places and two cultures.


    Edition of 10 | 210 × 270 mm | 110 pages
    2022

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    Brand identity – Website – Magazine
    Balkan Story Map 

    The Magazine Balkan Story Map showcases the first issue focusing on residental buildings under the broader theme of Housing + 


     135 pages | 210 × 260 mm 

    www.balkanstorymap.pr    2024

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    Prishtina në histori

    Digital platform with interactive materials on the history of Pristina. 

    www.prishtinanehistori.org


    Trembelat     2024

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    Jake Ranford website
    Website design. 

    www.jakeranford.com     2022


    LOOM

    Visual Identity for Loom – a coffee & culture inspired café. 



    2022