CGD

Lecturers

Emilija Kornakova – mentor at Institute for Business & Management Heidelberg Skopje
Emilija Kornakova has a master’s degree in Interior and Graphic Design. It is interesting to mention that in addition to the Faculty of Interior and Graphic Design, she also graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Department of International Relations.
Her rich working career began with the establishment of a marketing agency where she held the position of Creative Director from 2000 to 2010. In the meantime she has worked on several projects and additional work engagements such as Improving Management, Marketing Skills and Creativity in the marketing agency Ontrac, E3 media, Bristol UK; further as Graphic and web designer and Event manager in ID Macedonia, Skopje, Organization of national contest “MK SPORT ID” for unifed design of the Macedonian national teams jerseys; Further Additional Executive Director and Interior Designer at MED, Skopje, Interior design studio; from 2006 to 2015 she is a graphic and web designer and Event manager of Beach Volleyball Macedonia – Ohrid, Organization of the annual international beach volleyball competition; from 2011 to 2015 is Graphic, web designer, Magazine editor, Copywriter of Tinex, Cosmo; from 2014 to 2019 he is a Mentor – Trainer (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Art elements and principles, Theory of color, Branding and identity) in Seavus education and development center – Skopje, I Think academy, WEB Design Academy; from 2015 to 2018 is Creative graphic and web designer, Marketing account manager, Division – Skopje marketing agency; since January 2019 he is Marketing Director in Podravka – Skopje, Northern Macedonia.
Emilija Kornakova is a lecturer and head of the Graphic Design program at the Institute for Business and Management HEIDELBERG Skopje.

Todor Trajkovski – manager of the program
Todor Trajkovski has studied Mechanical Engineering at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Skopje.
He started his working career as the owner of the trading company Gamma Trade. From 1998 to 2000 he worked as a designer and video editor at TV 96; from 2000 to 2001 he was a designer of the weekly magazine START, from 2001 to 2006 he was a senior designer in the marketing agency “INDIGO – Ogilvy & Mather”; in the meantime he works as a production director in the printing house “My-Print”. From 2006 to 2012 he was the Creative Director of one of the world’s largest marketing agencies “Gray Worldwide”. From 2013 to 2015 he worked in MPM – Media Print as responsible for the corporate identity of the company. Since 2015 he has been working at Ars Lamina Publishing House as a chief graphic designer.
Todor Trajkovski is a lecturer and head of the Graphic Design program at the Institute for Business and Management HEIDELBERG Skopje.

Branko Ristovski – video production, editor, graphic animator, producer
Branko Ristovski is a graduate special educator, with postgraduate studies at EFTA ESRA Paris – Skopje – New York, in the field of production.
He has attended trainings in photography, editing, production and the like.
From his work engagements can be distinguished: September 2013 – Leading lecturer at the seven-day video workshop “Be the change you want to see”
July 2012 – Lead lecturer at the ten-day video workshop “Peace 2.0 New Social Media – (Dis-) Advantage for Peace?”
December 2012 – Lecturer at the three-day video workshop “Anti Stereotypes”
November 2012 – Lecturer at the three-day video workshop “VIDEO CULTURE”
Since 2012 he has been employed in “ZOOTROP STUDIO”, which deals with video production at the position of Editor, graphic animator, producer. In his rich career he has worked on many projects such as TV commercials, series, movies, shows, etc.
Branko Ristovski since 2019 is part of the team of lecturers of the Graphic Design program at the Institute for Business and Management HEIDELBERG Skopje.