Rokovnik 2022 (english)

In front of you is a special product. Carefully prepared, rich in content and based on learning about the Old Slovene cultural tradition from the hands of Kaja Horvat.

Kaja Horvat, a graduate designer of visual communications, has spent the last year researching and delving into the mysterious history of Slovene ancient religion. Her main interest was a different perception of nature and all that exists, which was based on a sense of connection and responsibility, which she finds crucial to remember today. She presented this different perception through a designed and illustrated diary for 2022.

As part of the diary, 12 illustrations were created concerning the Slovene Old Believer perception of the annual cycle. These are also described in the diary. The diary allows you to: getting to know the old Slovenian cultural heritage as a way of life lived by our ancient religious ancestors, learning about a different perception of nature based on respect, which is especially necessary in the current time of impending natural change, transparent space for filling and planning in 2022, can be carried because of its small size and convenience.

Content of the Annual personal planner:

• an introduction that leads to the perception of the ancient religion annual cycle and inform it to the diary,

• legend of symbols,

• annual calendar,

• schedule of weeks that allow recording (because it goes for a weekly diary, the week is spread over two pages),

• registered holidays and public holidays,

• information on the state of the moon, which ancestors wrote great importance,

• 12 illustrations list of sources used.

Illustrations:

• 12 topics are illustrated and described through which the user gets a sense of  the ancient natural processes.

• Selected topics are:

• the myth of creation,

• the giving of water,

• masking,

• fertility associated with the symbol of the egg,

• the world trees,

• bonfires,

• magical plants,

• summoning rain,

• worship earth, 

• ontact with ancestors,

• dark beings,

• man and stars.

The illustration technique is innovative and original.

Most of the illustrations were created by evaporating coffee from paper, which creates unique forms, which Maja shaped into the desired shapes with the help of digital collage.

About the author and illustrator of the work:

Kaja Horvat, graduate designer of visual communications
at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
In addition to illustration and graphic design, her great interests
are in the field of ethnology, anthropology and philosophy,
which she tries to combine in her works.