Te contamos cómo armar un itinerario por los Balcanes. Un recorrido por Eslovenia, Croacia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Montenegro y Macedonia.

Under a curtain of communism in the 80s, a heady punk rock movement in the former European country thrived – rivalling both New York and London

During the 1980s, Yugoslavia was destabilized by an acute economic and political crisis. It seemed ethnic violence could explode in the autonomous region of Kosovo, with its sizeable Albanian preponderance. A critical political evolution was Slobodan Milosevic's election, first President of Serbia in 1989.

Graphic journey through pop culture of Ex Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia: Past and Present, edited by Radmila Matic. Hardcover book published by Yugoslav Review, Belgrade and David Harvey, London (no date, probably late 1960s or early 1970s). Text is in English. The Excelsior Hotel in Dubrovnik. All along the coast there are many new hotels which are equipped to meet the requirements of the most exacting tourists. Every year sees an increase in the number of tourists flocking to the Yugoslav coast from all parts of the world. Many new hotels have been built, and more are planned, to meet the demand for accomadation. The Marjan Hotel in Split, the economic and cultural hub of Dalmatia. Split is famous for the remarkable Diocletian’s Palace, built towards the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th centuries.

Girls chillin’ on dock, Split, Yugoslavia, 1985.

Graphic journey through pop culture of Ex Yugoslavia

With our latest Vintage post we stay consistent to the current Yugoslav theme on BTLM. This is the first in our Yugoslavia Vintage series, a gallery featuring an eclectic and retro mix of Balkan pl…

Twenty-five years ago, a concert held in Sarajevo was the apex of the peace movement in former Yugoslavia. Not long later, the country plunged into war. How did it start?

In the 1950s and 1960s, some of the most popular Yugoslavian artists were hired to do commercial ads for tourist destinations, their airline company and many other products all over ex-Yugoslavia.

You might remember our collection of all Olympic logos from 1924 to 2022, this time we looked into history between 1896 and 2022 and collected all Olympic posters. This collection includes 87 Olympic posters. Since many Olympics had several posters, I tried to find and select the best ones. I hope that this collection will…

Opel calendar, Dubrovnik i Kotor

Graphic journey through pop culture of Ex Yugoslavia