Tomislav Todorovic
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Tomislav Todorovic - Zrenjanin - Serbia
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I live in Zrenjanin, Serbia and was born there in 1967. After having graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Novi Sad, I have had several temporary working engagements, mainly in education area (teaching secondary-school students the basics of electrotechnics and/or computing), and my permanent job since 2006 has been in a designing company, where I work on designing the electrical installations for a variety of objects.
My interest in flags began to emerge when I was nine years old, in form of hand-drawing the flags, mainly national, which I was seeing in printed sources and on the television. By the time I was eleven, I began to develop the interest in heraldry as well, which emerged from another hobby of mine - collecting pins and badges, many of which were displaying the arms and emblems of local government areas in the then Yugoslavia, but also in other countries as well: my collection of pins and badges displaying coats of arms from Poland was also my first exploration of heraldry. Next important moment was in 1982, when I bought Croatian edition of Whitney Smith's "Flags and arms across the World" [smi82], which was not only the birth of my collection of books about vexillology and heraldry, but also the beginning of a systematic approach to the subject. When the multi-party political system was introduced in Serbia in 1990, I discovered the political logos and flags as a new interest, having collected a large number of logos through the years, using them later to make the flag images as well.
Everything expanded with my first access to the World Wide Web in 1999, one of my first discoveries being the FOTW website, which I have immediately started to visit regularly. At that time, I began moving from hand-drawing to computer graphics, making my first contributions to the FOTW in 2004 and fully joining the mailing list in 2011.
Tomislav Todorovic, 22 December 2014
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