Visar Ulaj
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| Name: Visar Ulaj Born: 1972, Prishtina, Kosova Country of Residence: Sweden Specialities: Graphic Design Promoted By: Kosovas Cartoonists "Visar Ulaj's art is subtler; images that stay with you, ones you can think about, rather than look upon and easily comprehend" 00TAL 2002. |
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Personal Exhibitions |
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| 2005, Sexibition/Sekspozita Place: Kosovas Museum, Prishtina, Kosova 1999, Pain Surfing Place: Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden Description: Pain Surfing was arranged by Intercult and took place in the center of Stockholm at the cultural center - Kulturhuset. The title Pain Surfing originates from the satire cartoon, Your pain someone else's pleasure. 1996, Diver's Disease (Dykarsjuka) Place: City Gallery, Mallmberget, Sweden Description: Dykarsjuka (caisson disease) was arranged, in this northen town of Sweden, by ABF and Röda Korset (Read Cross). Visar Ulaj filed this big and fresh gallery with 56 of his satire cartoons and abstract/cartoon oil paintings. 1995, Dykarsjuka Place: Gamla Apoteket, Jokkmokk, Sweden, Sweden Description: Dykarsjuka was arranged by Jokkmokk komun and Röda Korset 1994, Vilse (Last) Place: University of Örebro, Örebro, Sweden, Sweden Description: A succesfull exhibitions visited by thousands of students. 1994, Vilse (Last) Place: Stockholm, Sweden, Sweden Description: Vilse is Visar's first exhibition in Sweden. Satire cartoons and oil abstrackt/cartoon paintings. |
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Awards |
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| 2006, Special Prize Event: World Cartoon Festival Place: Kosova's Museum, Prishtina, Kosova Description: Special Prize at the "World Cartoon Festival, Kosova 2006". 634 participants from 57 countries. 1998, Huddinge Culture Prize Event: 1998 Huddinge Culture Prizes Place: Huddine, Stockholm, Sweden 1997, Grand Prix Event: Albanian Cartoonist '97 Place: Prishtina, Kosova Description: First Prize 1997, Karikatura 97 Event: Albanian Cartoonist '97 Place: Prishtina, Kosova Description: This prize is given by the daily news Koha Ditore |
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Jobs and Projects |
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| 2007-(ongoing), Creative Director Project: Place: Valtech, Sweden 2004-(ongoing), Product manager and Design Director Project: Place: Galerdo, Stockholm, Sweden Description: Galerdo offers cost-effective, powerful and flexible web-based solutions that can be tailored to facilitate costumer needs. 2001-(ongoing), GUI Designer and Project Manager Project: Albanian Arts Online Gallery Place: Galerdo, Sweden Description: My primar job is to design the Graphicle User Interface (GUI) to this gellery. 2000-2005, Usability Architect and Graphic Designer Project: LTS and LCMS Place: Lecando AB, Sweden 1999, GUI designer Project: Daisy Place: Stockholm University, Department of Computer and S, Sweden Description: Daisy is an administrative system that is developed by Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences and is used by its sudents and staff. My Role was to design the system navigation hierarchy and graphicle user interface. 1997-1998, GUI illustrator Project: Huddinge Agora - virtual classroom Place: Huddinge College, Sweden Description: Virtual Classroom for IT-lessons used in the Huddinge College in Sweden. 1996-2001, Cartoon teacher Project: Place: Vuxenskolan, Huddinge, Sweden Description: Cartoon teacher for children between 10-14 years old. |
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