Nejc Prah
Photo: Nejc Prah, Text: Kaja Stradovnik

Prah Nejc

From student of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 to one of the world’s most prominent young designers, Nejc Prah lives and works in the United States.

As a graphic designer, he works in the fields of poster design, web design and illustration. He favours form over function, and composition, symbolism, colour and typography over the demands of content. His unique work takes the viewer to the very boundaries of art. Nejc was spotted by Bloomberg Businessweek, where he is now employed as an illustrator for that most prestigious of American business magazines.  

While still a student in Ljubljana, he won a postgraduate place at the elite Yale University School of Art, where he completed his studies in 2015. He has received several awards for his work, including a TDC award from Type Directors Club Tokyo in 2017, a Young Guns Class award from the Art Directors Club in 2016, a certificate of excellence in typography from Type Directors Club New York in 2016, a Grand Prix from Type Directors Club Tokyo in 2015, a prize at the 2015 Chaumont International Poster Festival, a Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship from Yale University (2015), a certificate of excellence in typography from Type Directors Club New York in 2014, an honourable mention from Tribuna and TMIA (Brumen 2013), and an award of honour from the Tribuna jury (Zgraf 2012), recipient of the Prešeren Foundation for Design Achievement Award 2020 for the last three years.