 Igor Kordej started as a professional graphic designer when he was 18, and as a professional comic artist and illustrator when he was 19 years old, joining a very influential group of comic artists "Novi kvadrat" (New square) 1976-1979, and publishing in all relevant Yugoslavian youth magazines of that era.In 1979 "Novi kvadrat" won the prestigious national award "7 sekretara SKOJ-a", thus marking a break-up of the group.At the beginning of the eighties Kordej teams-up with Mirko Ilić again in SLS studio (acronym for “Slow, Bad and Expensive”), and focuses on producing album covers and posters for Yugoslavian pop musicians and groups.