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Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Skopje… take your pick.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I have fond memories of Yugoslavia<\/a>, so I was delighted to chance upon an online collection of graphics from this former nation, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yugoslavia came onto my radar when I was 10 years old (living in Switzerland at the time) as a result of a pen-pal who I corresponded with in the northerly city of Novi Sad<\/a> (now Serbia) on the Danube. On boxing day the following year (I was 11, it was 1965) I boarded the Orient Express<\/a> in Basel for a 32-hour epic train-ride to go visit my friend “Rosie” on the other side of the Iron Curtain<\/a> (I still can’t believe how much trust my parents placed in me to do this on my own\u2014hard to imagine in today’s over-protective context). Needless to say, I had a blast, I learned a lot (including some significant life-lessons), and I was enamored by almost everything I encountered.<\/p>\n During the late 1960s we would occasionally make day trips into Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) while on family camping trips in nearby Austria. During the 1980s, I visited designer friends in the Zagreb area (now Croatia) with my wife, and spent some fine holiday days in\/around Bled<\/a> (now Slovenia). Later on, I was invited to contribute works to and then serve on design juries of ZGRAF<\/a> (including one visit in 1991 in the midst of what had become a civil war). The last time I was in (former) Yugoslavia was during the Icograda events in Zagreb, Croatia, in April 2001.<\/p>\n