Croatian painter and graphic designer Boris Bućan graduated from the School of Applied Arts in 1967. In the same year, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he graduated in 1972. Even during his studies, he started intensively dealing with graphic design and attracted attention with posters for SC Gallery and Gavella Drama Theatre. In 1982, Bućan created the now legendary design of the poster for Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Firebird". He received more than twenty top international awards and recognitions (many of them Grand Prix), and the world museum Victoria & Albert Museum from London, in its unique survey of the most successful posters of the twentieth century (from 1870 to the present day), assigned him the front page in its representative catalog. Today, Bućan's works can be found in the world's most prominent museums and galleries (New York, Munich, Essen, Melbourne). At the Venice Biennale in 1984, he represented the former FPRY with a series of large-format posters for the Croatian National Theater in Split. In 1989, he participated in the Biennale in Sao Paulo, and in 1992 in the Triennale in Milan. He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Croatian Design Society in 2006. In various art disciplines, he investigated the issue of anonymous media messages, which he personalized with witty interventions in the template (Bucan Art, 1973). In graphic design, especially large posters, he is associated with pop art and conceptualism. He successfully anticipated some features of postmodernism.