Miloš Ćirić

Miloš Ćirić
Miloš Ćirić (1994, a photo by Vukan Ćirić)
Born	1931 Despotovo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Died	1999 Belgrade, SR Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Nationality	Serb
Education	Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade
Known for	Graphic Design, Illustration, Typography
Notable work	Chronicles of Symbols 1-5.

Miloš Ćirić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Ћирић; born 1931, Despotovo – died 1999, Belgrade) was a notable Serbian visual artist and educator. The fields of his interest were art graphics, graphic identification, lettering, advertisement, book design, graphic animation, graphic-in-space and heraldry.

Born in Despotovo, Serbia, in 1931, Ćirić graduated in 1954 from the Academy of Applied Arts, Belgrade and took his master's degree in 1959, under Professor Mihailo S. Petrov. He was member of "The Applied Artists and Designers Association of Serbia" (ULUPUDS) since 1959 and the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) since 1962.

Titular professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, Ćirić was the founder of the chair of Graphic Communication and taught at the FAA from 1964 until 1997. He was Head of the Graphic Department from 1974 to 1975.

Author of extremely large opus: he created more that a 1000 logos, a dozen of city coat-of-arms, about 20 one-off and bibliophile books and the same number of original letter designs, a big number of posters and other works from the field of graphic design. The most important works were: design of the exhibition "Robija – škola revolucionara", Beograd – Sremska Mitrovica, 1963; Lettering project: „Ćirićica", Belgrade, 1970/72; Graphic communication of the VMA, Belgrade, 1976/77; Manuscript dedicated to the Sveti Sava Temple, Belgrade, 1985. His magnum opus is "Chronicles of Symbols" 1–5, five-volume chronological lexicon of visual symbols from the Balkans, on 2500 pages, with more than 10.000 illustrations, University of Arts, Belgrade, 2009.

In 1999, at the Faculty of Applied Arts, the 'Miloš Ćirić Fund Award', for the best student work in the field of graphic design was founded. Since 2004 at the FAA, in the end of October, a manifestation "Ćira’s Days" has been held in his honour.