Rastko Ćirić

Rastko Ćirić (, ; born 24 May 1955) is a Serbian multimedia artist and educator. His fields of interest are graphics, illustration, logo design, ex-libris, comics, animation and music. He has won more than 70 local and international awards. He is a professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade.

Biography He was born into an artistic family. His parents, father Miloš and mother Ida, met at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. Rastko graduated in 1979, and finished his postgraduate studies in 1982 from the same school, now Faculty of Applied Arts. He is now a professor at the same school and Vice-Rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade.

He achieved voluminous opus in all the graphic fields, in film and in music. He authored 14 animated films. He has 44 individual exhibitions (Belgrade; Novi Sad; Vranje; Ljubljana and Kopar, Slovenia; Annecy and Orléans, France; Legnica, Poland; Hiroshima, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Polleur, Belgium). He was collaborator–illustrator of the New York Times Book Review.

He has been employed at the Faculty of Applied Arts since 1991. Since 2004, he has been a full-time professor of Illustration and Animation at the Applied Graphics department at the FAA, and leader of the Digital Arts Program at the interdisciplinary DA studies of the University of Arts in Belgrade. He is the founder and editor of the book edition and magazine “Signum” FAA (2006).

He is the author of the internationally recognised music project The Rubber Soul Project, inspired by The Beatles. A feature documentary by the same name (2004) directed by Dinko Tucaković, was dedicated to this project. A CD and DVD were published in 2006 in the USA. His new album The Rubber Soul Project 2, with Igor Kordey as producer was recorded in 2013 and released in 2015.

Ćirić is a member of ULUPUDS, ASIFA, Belgrade Ex-libris Circle, Art Directors Club Serbia and Association of Comics Artists of Serbia.

He is the founder and art director of the Festival of European Student Animation FESA (2012).

He lives in Belgrade.