TinaVR is Martina Vrdoljak Ranilović, a leading Croatian creative, designer and artist based in Zagreb, Croatia, with 25 years of industry experience, both as a creative and business partner at I-GLE design studio and as lead creative director at the largest fashion house in Croatia, Varteks.
The TinaVR brand was established in 2022 and continues to work across a variety of disciplines, bringing together couture and luxury made-to-measure pieces and utility wear, uniforms and interior textiles in one design studio.
Martina has explored many avenues in her work, finding success in theater costume design, interior design and interior textile design, to name just a few. She has participated in a myriad of both solo and group exhibitions and won numerous professional awards, with the most recent being the 2022 Award for Best Fashion and Clothing Design awarded by the Croatian Designers Association.
Martina is a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists Association (HZSU), the Croatian Designers Association (HDD), and the Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts (ULUPUH).
Bio
Projects
2023
Hotel San Canzian – Staff uniforms design
TINA VR
2023
Hotel Lone – Staff uniforms design
TINA VR
2023
Hotel Monte Mulini Beach Bar – Staff uniforms design
TINA VR
2019
Croatia Airlines – Flight and cabin crew uniforms design
VARTEKS
2018
Hotel Lone – Staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2017
Virtus Bar – Staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2017
Adris grupa – Zagreb HQ service staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2016
Hotel Almayer – Staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2014
Hotel Adriatic – Staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2012
Hotel Monte Mulini Beach Bar – Staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2011
Hotel Lone – Staff uniforms design
I-GLE
2011
Hotel Lone – Textiles design – collab with 3LHD Architects
I-GLE
2011
Hotel Lone – Spatial textile art
I-GLE
2009
ZPC – Spatial textiles design – collab with 3LHD Architects
I-GLE
2008
Hotel Šipan – Staff uniforms design
TINA VR
2008
Hotel Šipan – Interior design
TINA VR
2005
Dear Elena Sergejevna, dir. Edvin Liverić – Costume design – ZKM Theatre
I-GLE
1998
Picnic, dir. Kilina Cremona – Costume design – Exit Theatre
TINA VR
1993-02
Various textile and interior design projects for private clients
TINA VR
Awards
2023
Best fashion design 2021.22 by the Croatian Designers Association
TINA VR
2018
Best designer Honorary award Ana Lendvaj by Fashion.hr & Večernji list
I-GLE
2014
ELLE style award for best fashion designer by magazine Elle
I-GLE
2010
Best fashion collection by Biennale of Industrial Design Ljubljana
I-GLE
2010
Best fashion design 2009.10 by the Croatian Designers Association
I-GLE
2008
Best fashion design 2007.08 by the Croatian Designers Association
I-GLE
Exibitions
2024
RECYCLED | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
TINA VR
2023
Visions 2023: Achromatic in the contemporary fashion expression | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
TINA VR
2023
Croatian Designers Association 2021.22 Best of Croatian design | group exhibition – Gallery Lauba, Zagreb
TINA VR
2019
The stories that cut the pattern of Varteks | The history of fashion house exhibition – Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
TINA VR
2019
The material touch of an intangible reality | Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2018
Art Eco – Balance | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2017
National Heritage – lace | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2017
Visions 2017: Hybridity of fashion | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2016
Croatian Designers Association 2015.16 Best of Croatian design | group exhibition – Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2016
Art Eco – Excess | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2014
Croatian Designers Association 2013.14 Best of Croatian design | group exhibition – Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2014
Movement in shape – Shape in motion | art project with Decker & Kutić – Gallery Karas, Zagreb
I-GLE
2012
Croatian Designers Association 2011.12 Best of Croatian design | group exhibition – Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2012
135 meters | Croatian Designers Association Gallery, Zagreb
I-GLE
2012
Minimal and maximal | Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2012
Fashion genotype | Galery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2010
Project 016 | group exhibition – Biennale of Industrial Design, Ljubljana
I-GLE
2010
Limes – Croatian Designers Association 2009.10 Best of Croatian design | group exhibition – Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2010
Imaginary unit – Kontakt T-T | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2010
Edufashion | group project, Ljubljana
TINA VR
2010
Pecha Kucha | presentation – Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2009
Pecha Kucha | presentation – Hartera festival, Rijeka
I-GLE
2009
Project 014 Dressed Space | Croatian Designers Association Gallery, Zagreb
I-GLE
2009
New members of ULUPUH | group exhibition – Gallery ULUPUH, Zagreb
I-GLE
2009
Better half | group exhibition – Gallery Vladimir Nazor, Zagreb
I-GLE
2008
Croatian Designers Association 2007.08 Best of Croatian design | group exhibition – Pavilion 19 Zagreb Fair, Zagreb
I-GLE
2008
Project 013 Collection SS 09 | Anio Showroom, Paris
I-GLE
2008
Project 014 Collection AW 08 | Anio Showroom, London
I-GLE
2007
Project 011 Collection SS 08 | Anio Showroom, London
I-GLE
2007
Project 010 | Museum Of Arts And Crafts, Zagreb
I-GLE
2007
Collection AW 0708 | Anio Showroom, London
I-GLE
2006
Project 009 | fashion performance – Gallery Karas, Zagreb
I-GLE
2005
Exhibition | Croatian tourist board space, Bruxelles
I-GLE
2002
Project 002 Capsule | interactive digital promotion – Gallery Karas, Zagreb
I-GLE