{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"crowdspring Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog","author_name":"Audree Rowe","author_url":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/author\/audree\/","title":"12 Questions: Meet Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic (Serbia) - crowdspring Blog","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FNF0yUkksx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-jelena-mirkovic-jankovic-serbia\/\">12 Questions: Meet Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic (Serbia)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/12-questions-meet-jelena-mirkovic-jankovic-serbia\/embed\/#?secret=FNF0yUkksx\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;12 Questions: Meet Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic (Serbia)&#8221; &#8212; crowdspring Blog\" data-secret=\"FNF0yUkksx\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community \u2013 in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly \u2013 activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we\u2019ll take notice. We\u2019re very proud to feature\u00a0Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic (crowdSPRING username:\u00a0JMJ) today. Jelena lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. 1. Please tell us about yourself.\u2028 When I think a bit, my name is mom. Most of the day I respond to IT: Moooom, come to see this!!! \u2028Moooom, why are turtles bold? \u2028Mom, will the people on clouds fall down on us one day? \u2028Mom, why are there no woman pirates? \u2028\u2026and so on and so forth. \u2028Seventhousandandeightynine times a day! And the rest of the day \u2013 when I\u2019m not dressed in the magic \u201cmom\u201d costume &#8211; I\u2019m simply Jelena. I got Mirkovic from my father and I greedily snatched Jankovic from my husband. And thus we got JMJ (Jelena Mirkovic Jankovic). Oh, I forgot to tell you. \u2028I am actually a sculptor. Deeply involved in painting and arts. And again \u2013 in momhood. It all started a long time ago &#8211; almost 38 years ago, when everything that could be drawn \u2013 was drawn, when all that could be colored \u2013 got colored. And that \u201cdisease\u201d remained incurable in my case. I was born in Bosanski Petrovac, a small town in Bosnia (ex-Yugoslavia), where I blissfully lived the best and most magnificent childhood on earth.\u00a0 This was a childhood ample with smells of earth and sky, full of colors, bare feet, animals and freedom. Following my \u201cartistic urge\u201d, which is more powerful than orientation (what I would be when I grew up), I left to attend the High School of Art in Novi Sad (Serbia), where I graduated from the Department for Interior and Industrial Design. I never wondered what I would do later. Nor did I have any compromise. I wanted to study painting. Alas, all the teachers who saw the drawings that I prepared for the entrance exam said \u2013 you\u2019re born to be a sculptor. And it took me just few days to make five portraits (plaster cast) and take them, still \u201chot\u201d, to the exam. This is how I became a graduate sculptor and art professor. In spite of my fingertips being enamored with the tactile world of sculpture, my ontological need for painting, drawing and colors never ceased, it was rather simultaneous. Following this urge, I finalized my Master at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Department for the Theory of Culture, and I defended the thesis entitled Color and Culture (from myth to postmodern culture). 2. How did you become interested in design? Huh, entirely by chance! By the end of my studies, I visited a friend and colleague in a marketing agency and their design studio. At that moment, they.."}