BELEF shall this year mark the installation of new communication platforms in the presentation of young authors’ work. During eight weeks of Festival duration, in cooperation with renowned weekly “VREME”, a Project shall be realized ON TIME! aiming to divert attention to the significance of those, very often neglected fields of visual production. Every week one young author shall be given a chance to make the inner cover page of the VREME magazine, which would move the set boundaries and practice in this filed, also in the field of graphical innovativeness, but especially within the scope of social-artistic engagement.

During the last week of the Festival, exhibition of those works shall be organized, and a special publication shall be published with all works originated during the duration of BELEF, within the ON TIME! Project.

Mirko Ilić, world renowned designer. From 1975 publishes illustrations in the Student papers, Polet, Pitanjima, Start, Danas, and from 1977 cooperates with foreign magazines Pardon and Panorama. In the period from 1976 to 1979 he is a leader of comic strip group New square.

In 1986 he leaves for New York, where he starts cooperation with numerous prominent journalists and magazines: Time, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Money ...

During 1991 works as Art Director for International Issue of the Time magazine, in 1992 becomes Art Director for Op-Ed page of the New York Times.

In 1995 he initiates Mirko Ilić Corp. Studio for Graphic Design and 3D Computer Graphics.

Teaches Design and Illustration at Cooper Union and in School of Visual Arts in New Yorku. Co-author of the books Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design, Digital Designer and Hand Written with Steven Heller, and of the book Design of Dissent with Milton Glaser.