My name is Nenad Katic. I am an independent designer working across disciplines.
I craft digital content and experiences, design real-world buildings and objects, and think hard to make sure that the ideas behind these make sense in a first place.
Foosball Hero, my debut video game, brings adrenaline rush of the real-world foosball game to your iPad ! It’s fast, noisy, engaging, rusty, dirty and squeaky – just like the old foosball table at your favorite bar !
Casa Mancic is a unique and contradictory home that is constructed as a mix-tech: a hybrid of advanced digital design tools and locally available traditional knowledge of contruction, materials and energy preservation.
5D Digital City system was my key assignment as former Director of Technology at Screampoint.
It was the first digital city system to be successfully adopted by a city government in world, in Wuhan (China) in 2006.
This is not an achievement in interior design nor it is meant to be. Instead, the process of designing my own apartment turned out to be a catharsis in which I radically changed my lifestyle and understanding of well-being.
In a way, it was my own private Fight Club.
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Whether you have an interesting project to challenge me, or a unique skill that would like to contribute, I’d love to hear your ideas – we can make amazing things together !
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Museum Macura is a result of an unintentional participative design process in which the original architectural concept was greatly depreciated, but the new and unexpected quality emerged from the loss of control over final design and execution process.
For years, I have been pushing boundaries of architectural presentation, adopting the techniques from far more advanced realm of advertising. I create single image narratives that tell the story about the space yet to be built, and establish a meaningful emotional connection with the public.
MonteVerde attempts to offer an alternative to overblown developments that recently has spawned all over the coast of Montenegro, destroying the local ecosystem.
We work with the client on total design, from architecture to marketing, to introduce an idea of sustainable luxury to this young mediterrenean country.
One of my favorite recent projects is a small website I made for multi-talented artist Ana Zarubica. It’s playful, it’s sincere, we had so much fun doing it, and the compensation was priceless – “a beginning of a beautiful friendship”.
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Click here to see more work in architecture and interiors, web, multimedia, software, art and graphic identity…
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Finally, check out my blog for experiments, ideas and things that inspire me.
There’s nothing I like more than starting things from scratch, and I am really good at it: I do it all the time as I love enthusiasm, raw energy and inspiration that I get from blank new page full of promises. However, I suck at sticking to the plan, at least when it comes to personal matters (on the other hand, I am a very responsible and hard working professional).
So it’s no surprise that it takes me 10 years to make a personal website, throwing away all the work and starting over again with “a better idea” at least ten times in order to make it perfect. Or that I prefer doing a complete redesign of my blog to writing a single post. So I am starting to blog again, and quite appropriately decided to delete all the previous posts because they were too irregular, random and misleading.
Instead, I will start again by listing the things I should have blogged about, my personal “Best Of 2010”.
Best Book: “The Happyness Hypothesis”, Johnatan Haidt (2005)
I couldn’t possibly summarize this book better than its subtitle: “Putting Ancient Wisdom And Philosophy To The Test Of Modern Science” this book is an epic investigation into roots of morality and well being, and definitely at the top of my “read again” list for 2010.
Best Movie: “Exit Through The Gift Shop”, Banksy
I don’t care if it’s fake or real, this is the funniest and most inspiring movie I’ve seen in a long time, with a great twist of irony whether you see it as a documentary or mockumentary. Banality is a virus that has taken over contemporary culture, and this movie is clearly giving a finger to art establishment while cashing in on its own stupidity.
Best Idea: www.UrgentEvoke.com
People are doing their best when self-motivated and playing, and they already put millions of hours of gaming every year. Urgent Evoke is a collaborative envornment built as an online multiplayer game that attempts to take advantage of that huge creative potential to tackle real world global issues such as extreme poverty, social injustice and environmental crisis. Overall, the work and talks of Jane McGonigal has been one of the primary reasons for me to make a career shift into game design, and she’s number one on my “wish to collaborate with” list for 2011.
Best Lifestyle Practice: Vipassana Meditation
Meditation has been around in various forms for thousands of years but I guess I am a slow adaptor, probably because I used to see it in religious or spiritual context only. However, at its core, it is a pure mental fitness, a religion-free approach for strenghtening your mind, and daily practice has brought me enormous benefits. To get a good and objective start on it I would recommend “Mindfulness In Plain English”.
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Ok now that I got this out, let’s see if the new blog will live beyond this one single post.