On Friday, September 12, 2025, the promotion of the monograph BEKAR: Prélude, edited and authored by Alira Hrabar Bekar. The book, which provides a thorough insight into various aspects of the design work of the prominent graphic designer, art director, and photographer Dušan Bekar on 160 pages in Croatian and English, will be discussed by Duško Bekar, Ksenija Foretić, Marko Golub, Ivan Klisurić and the conversation will be moderated by Alira Hrabar Bekar.

The bilingual monograph BEKAR: Prélude follows the creative odyssey of the influential art director Dušan Bekar, a member of the developmental line of Croatian graphic design in the second half of the twentieth century. Raised on the foundations of international modernism, Bekar began his journey in 1949 at the Ozeha agency as an eighteen-year-old, and over the next five decades he developed a unique vocabulary made up of illustrations, typography, calligraphy, photography and three-dimensional objects.

Bekar's extensive work, barely scratched by this publication, is presented through 250 selected works on 160 pages. The authors of the texts are Ksenija Foretić, Marko Golub, Alira Hrabar Bekar and Irma Puškarević, who approach the phenomenon of Dušan Bekar from different angles — far better known for his legendary design solutions than by his name.